Training Log Archive: DaveRIn the 30 days ending Jun 30, 2013:
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Sunday Jun 30, 2013 #
Hill run 4:09:36 [3] 43.0 km (5:48 / km) +650m 5:24 / km
Well, my first marathon, my first ultra (I think it just counts) and my first really long hill race. I was more than a little nervous of being able to survive this and certainly surviving in reasonable shape. Race strategy was not to think of it as a race, and to be very conservative - slow start, drink lots, and eat early and often. Not sure it all worked quite to plan, and I should probably have drunk even more, but overall I was extremely pleased with the result and to be able to finish quite strongly.
Pacing was really quite slow at the start, with about 52 minutes for the first 10k which was all tarmac and good track. Throughout I was walking up most of the steep bits (leaving the road at Mar lodge, the Luibeg climb and the climb to the top of the pass and using these breaks to munch some food. In many ways this seems to have worked as the last 10k was 47 minutes and I was reeling lots of people in.
Very impressed by the state of the track - lost of really good improvements, especially on the Braemar side. The other surprising thing was the amount of nimble footwork required to keep running - it was a really good path, but with so many big and small stones in it I felt I was dancing rather than running from the Luibeg burn all the way over to the Rothiemurchus forest, a full 16km or so. The dreaded boulder fields round the Pools of Dee were much less fierce than I expected.
The weather was windy, I was almost blown over a couple of times near the summit and for much of the way up to the Derry Lodge I was looking for people to hide behind and act as a windbreak. Occasional showers kept things cool enough in the pass, and it got sunnier into Rothiemurchus.
Friday Jun 28, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 20:20 [3] 9.0 km (2:16 / km)
Cycling-commuting 22:20 [3] 9.5 km (2:21 / km)
Thursday Jun 27, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 22:30 [3] 9.6 km (2:21 / km)
Wednesday Jun 26, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 23:00 [3] 10.0 km (2:18 / km)
Tuesday Jun 25, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 19:00 [3] 9.0 km (2:07 / km)
Cycling-commuting 22:00 [3] 9.4 km (2:20 / km)
Hill run 44:50 [3] 7.1 km (6:19 / km) +250m 5:22 / km
Sunday Jun 23, 2013 #
Road Running 1:12:44 [3] 15.34 km (4:44 / km) +220m 4:25 / km
Friday Jun 21, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 22:00 [3] 10.0 km (2:12 / km)
Cycling-commuting 23:00 [3] 9.5 km (2:25 / km)
Thursday Jun 20, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 22:30 [3] 10.0 km (2:15 / km)
Cycling-commuting 22:00 [3] 9.5 km (2:19 / km)
Orienteering 33:00 [3] 6.0 km (5:30 / km)
Nice park, binned 3 minutes at #1 as couldn't make sense of the paths or vegetation, various other comedy moments - a flag separated from its SI box by "interested locals", one where I couldn't see it as it was on a seat and hidden by a toddler :-) and a final one I didn't find as I knew I was in the right place but couldn't be bothered searching in the likely bushes.
Wednesday Jun 19, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 24:40 [3] 10.6 km (2:20 / km)
Cycling-commuting 22:00 [3] 9.5 km (2:19 / km)
Tuesday Jun 18, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 22:00 [3] 9.8 km (2:15 / km)
Cycling-commuting 23:00 [3] 9.4 km (2:27 / km)
Running-Garscube 55:00 [3] 5.0 km (11:00 / km)
Running-Garscube 14:30 [3] 3.0 km (4:50 / km)
Monday Jun 17, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 22:00 [3] 10.0 km (2:12 / km)
Cycling-commuting 22:00 [3] 9.5 km (2:19 / km)
Sunday Jun 16, 2013 #
Orienteering 14:00 [3] 1.5 km (9:20 / km)
Orienteering 30:56 [3] 5.3 km (5:50 / km) +80m 5:26 / km
Respect to the juniors who comprehensively beat me today, fortunately the results are not on line yet, so I don't have to say how fast Sasha went!
Great day out for the juniors.
Thursday Jun 13, 2013 #
Road Running 47:49 [3] 10.6 km (4:31 / km)
Wednesday Jun 12, 2013 #
Road Running 26:36 [3] 5.6 km (4:45 / km)
Sunday Jun 9, 2013 #
Orienteering 1:11:52 [3] 8.7 km (8:16 / km)
Brown. A map so detailed in places that the scale was 1:7500 (for which I was grateful, particularly in the dark forest). Various minor wobbles, especially in the field at the end, but no real horrors.
Orienteering 15:00 [3]
Saturday Jun 8, 2013 #
Hill run 1:36:15 [3] 21.1 km (4:34 / km)
Friday Jun 7, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 22:40 [3] 9.8 km (2:19 / km)
Cycling-commuting 23:30 [3] 9.7 km (2:25 / km)
Thursday Jun 6, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 23:00 [3] 10.0 km (2:18 / km)
Cycling-commuting 22:30 [3] 9.4 km (2:24 / km)
Orienteering 59:00 [3] 8.2 km (7:12 / km)
Wednesday Jun 5, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 22:20 [3] 10.0 km (2:14 / km)
Cycling-commuting 22:00 [3] 9.6 km (2:17 / km)
Tuesday Jun 4, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 23:00 [3] 10.0 km (2:18 / km)
Cycling-commuting 21:00 [3] 9.2 km (2:17 / km)
Running-Garscube 43:00 [3] 6.0 km (7:10 / km)
Monday Jun 3, 2013 #
Cycling-commuting 23:00 [3] 10.0 km (2:18 / km)
Cycling-commuting 19:30 [3] 9.1 km (2:09 / km)
Sunday Jun 2, 2013 #
Hill run 58:00 [3] 10.0 km (5:48 / km) +300m 5:03 / km
Saturday Jun 1, 2013 #
Orienteering 40:10 [3] 8.3 km (4:50 / km) +100m 4:34 / km
Orienteering 25:00 [3] 3.0 km (8:20 / km)