Training Log Archive: jonny crickmore

Decided a long WU was necessary as I wasn't moving too well. Luckily I wasn't in the worst DOMS window but still very painful quads. Very nice run round Shugborough.

CSC Final

Can't say this was too enjoyable. Pretty crappy forest and feeling like crap. It wasn't just my legs but my head wasn't with it either. I just stuck in the try and go fastish but comfortable zone and ended up being not too fast and any bit of downhill was not fun. Got a fair few points and kept the captain (a.k.a Dad) happy.
Nice long bus back as I hit the DOMS peak and stumbled out of the bus.

Shaekout from the arena. Got a bit ill Thursday evening then had an awful night's sleep last (fri) night but after a lemsip in the morning I was up to one working nostril and feeling up for some racing. Legs happy at least.

WU round the field with Pablo.

British Fell Relays. 3rd

Always one of the highlights of the year and Ambleside didn't dissapoint. New club, more brown but same game and hoping for a good result.
Ambleside also managed to make the perfect leg for me on 4 with the route change adding in a ridiculous descent.
Some solid runs by Peter, Peter and Waldie set us up maybe mid teens but as always hoping leg 3 was the big one and Murray and Scott had a pretty good race and sent me out in tied 4th with DP (I enjoyed my moving club made no difference on my finish position). 2:40 down on Haries and 5 down on Ambleside.

After about 4min I started dropping DP. Then struggled on the steep rough climb but ground it out okay. It was claggy so was just desperately trying to spot the next flag. A bit demoralising going up the hill and could see maybe a minute or more ahead at times and nobody on my leg in sight. Once on top I tried to push but I just couldn't follow the flags (I thought Ambleside didn't like following a breadcrumb trail :) ). They seemed to keep going on and off the path so was pretty hesitant and got my map out at one point to check I hadn't missed the turn off.

Then the fun began and a contouring descent to Stone Arthur and finally see someone about 100m ahead. Plummeted off the hill at a scary pace, flying past Gregor and was just fully committed. Unfortunately this was unsustainable and hitting the lower down fields my legs just capitulated and I stumbled in falling over on the run in. Ambleside were 30s ahead in the end with Pudsey another few minutes.

Obviously Jacob smashed me by a minute and a half but that was to be expected as he is just on a different level up a hill at the moment. Thankfully due to some major Keswick errors it wasn't a head to head race. Was hoping Ted Mason/Elk would be doing 4 for a showdown. Hopefully be throwing myself off some more hills next year.


Overall results
http://www.sportident.co.uk/results/2018/BritishFe...


Leg splits
http://www.sportident.co.uk/results/2018/BritishFe...

WD with Jamie. Legs woke up into shuffle mode. Completely lost my voice though.

Easier session ahead of Sat and had to get to work

Easy with Liam in Pentlands.

Garmin fail no1

Garmin continued to fail on WU but seemed to settle down for reps.

4x6(90) on KF.

Trying to keep it fairly sensible ahead of the weekend which is probably last race in a while I would really like to put in a good race.

Lungs good, legs meh, stomach awful. Barely held on for the whole session but running nicely just uncomfortably. Looking forward to a nice winter of KF again.

C • Cheers... 2

Bored of usual commutes so tried to stay the north side of tram tracks and had fun winging it. Made it to the gym with 30s to spare.