Training Log Archive: Cruachan

To bed too late and felt rough from weekend.... back to work too.

Event: TVOC Chiltern Challenge Regional Event Level B
 

Battered and feeling rough... groin a mess, glands up and felt shattered. Still I loved running the National and have already committed (mentally) to 2016!

Event: English National XC Championships
 

Before the National... Felt okay!

Well, it took me 30 years to run the National after my last one at Milton Keynes in 1985 (as a Junior and having done a mile reps session in the morning!)... Should have done one at my peak, but hey ho. It was a brutal sludge-fest today - wore my O shoes but even they struggled to get good grip. I felt I started very comfortably but was surprised to get passed by Gordon Irvine after 5 mins or so; tried to keep tabs on him but was struggling badly in the mud. Lacked strength or any kind of rhythm & just went back, back, back. Finally to started feeling fine in last 1K (which could have been as much mental as physical. 748th. Gordon got top 500 and that has to be the aim for 2016.

Very ploddy run down to Newmarket High St and back... Felt awful!

Out on Burwell road and then picked up the track parallel to the A14 until the Devil's Dyke bridge, then back. Runs to be explored in the future, methinks.

Nice recovery nighttime walk... eased legs out and felt better afterwards.