Training Log Archive: SarahD

Out of the back of the house. Looped round and over the quarry pond hill then did some hill efforts (couldn't push myself hard enough to claim they were real reps). Warmed down with a jog down to the waterfall and back.

4 x ~2:20 hills with jog recovery on the steep rough track from the well hut up to the top wall. Legs heavy.

My short-lived hibernation came to an abrupt end when I looked out of the window this morning and saw Mount Battock and Clachnaben sparkling white across the valley. Parked in the main Clachnaben car park and headed out by the tourist track. It was very icy down the bottom, but my ice bugs handled it pretty well. Running up the wee valley was lovely, but once I got out onto the main slope the snow got really frustrating with a 1 inch crusted layer on top of 9-12 inches of soft snow. This meant that you never knew quite how far your foot was going to sink and my run rapidly disintegrated to a walk. Never mind, the views were amazing and I wasn't planning on beating any records. The descent was even more frustrating, as any attempt to run was liable to end in a broken leg. Bumped into Gary on my way down, out for a walk with some friends. Returned back over Mount Shade (another DR Challenge point), more frustrating snow on the climb, but a better descent. Picked up the big track through the plantation, round a wee hill and past a phone mast to take me back to my starting point.
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What a minging morning. Rain on wet slushy snow, with thick compacted ice in places. All the same I was up for a decent run and headed out to Dinnet Muir with Jon and Dan. Ran across the moor, up the side of the Vat Burn, over Cnoc Dubh, back down to the muir and back round the other side of Loch Kinord. Amazingly the overhead wetness had stopped by the time we set off, so it was only the underfoot conditions to contend with. Ice bugs and wet suit socks handled that pretty well, but I was working hard the whole time, trying not to hold Dan and Jon back too much. Good run. Think I'll go into hibernation now, since we're fairly well iced in anyhow - had to give Jon a push to get back up the track and my car's still abandoned half way along.

Steady run from home with Jon. Round the woods on the bottom track, out into the fields and loop back into the woods and over the top of the hill. Feeling a bit tired from last night and still a bit stuffed up from my cold. Definitely not recovered sufficiently to do the E Districts XC on Sat.

DNC round 2 at Dunnottar woods - a completely new area to me. Technically fairly simple and I ran pretty cleanly, except for no 3 where the contour information on the map was distinctly lacking. Marnoch caught me there and we were together for a while, until he must have missed and caught me back again later. Disappointed to finish in 8th off a good run - makes me feel like a real old woman ;-{
Great night and a nice change to run through clean open forest.

This wasn't much fun after a late tea of fish and chips washed down with copious amounts of water.

Easy run in the dark round Hazlehead / Woodend. Right knee was niggling a bit - must be an underuse injury. Nice to get some fresh air after being stuck in the seminar room for a large part of the day trying to be intelligent. Now I've got to make myself presentable again to go and make small talk with some very important people (think I saw Caspian around earlier).

Easy run round Dess Woods. Still a bit snotty, but generally feeling better.

Managed to draw a full arc on the floor behind my head for the first time - wow ;-} Must be all this lack of running.