Training Log Archive: Big JonIn the 30 days ending Jun 30, 2012:
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| « | » |
| » now | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fr | Sa | Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Saturday Jun 30, 2012 #
cycling 1:20:00 [2]
Cycle with Ewan and Sarah up Glen Tanar to foot of Mount Keen. Carrying heavy pack (camping). Hard work, tired by end.
Friday Jun 29, 2012 #
steady run 2:10:00 [3]
With Sarah, up Birse track, down to Glen Cat, up and over to Birse Castle, back over Fungle. Rainy and windy but very mild. Right shin tight at start but eased off, pain behind right knee for a while and calf also complaining gently by end.
stretching 12:00 [1]
Thursday Jun 28, 2012 #
Intervals hills 16:00 [5]
4 x DAP gate to top gate. 4-10, 4-02, 3-53, 3-56. Started a bit reluctant, got into it and working hard on last 2.
steady run warm up/down 34:00 [3]
Jog through Dess Woods and back
cycling 50:00 [2]
Cycling with Ewan to and from school - on nearly finished Deeside Way, just waiting for dry weather (ha ha) to lay final layer of granite dust.
stretching 12:00 [1]
Wednesday Jun 27, 2012 #
Note
7 hours surveying 6-day area
stretching 12:00 [1]
Tuesday Jun 26, 2012 #
Note
6.5 hours surveying 6-Day area.
Monday Jun 25, 2012 #
Note
Rest day
Sunday Jun 24, 2012 #
cycling 55:00 [3]
Cycle to Sluie and back. Tired at start, very tired on return
orienteering race 1:22:00 [5]
Sluie event. Brown course 8.6km. Tired at start, tried to attack the course, but struggling from early on. Very tired by end and didn't appreciate the run in - 375m uphill! Still - it was good training. Calf felt a bit of a dull ache most of the way, but no sharp pains - an improvement?
Saturday Jun 23, 2012 #
steady run 2:00:00 [3]
Aboyne to Tarland and back - for official opening of Tarland Way. Lots of cakes and cups of tea at McRobert Hall in Tarland, then cruise back. Pleasant day - a little drizzle but mostly dry. Calf feeling a bit swollen but not apinful - I think recovery is not too far off now (famous last words!).
stretching 12:00 [1]
Friday Jun 22, 2012 #
cycling 3:00:00 [3]
Home to Ballater with Sarah, by Deeside Way and back via South Deeside Road to Aboyne and railway line from there. A bit wet and muddy........
stretching 12:00 [1]
Thursday Jun 21, 2012 #
Intervals hills 16:00 [5]
Cistern track with Sarah, 4x4+4 (no not a Land-Rover), 4 mins up, jog down, start every 8 minutes x 4. Not enthusiastic as rain had just started, but set off and first one felt pretty awful, at end of second I felt a tiny pin prick of pain in my calf...... started third and calf was OK, so did 4th. Can feel a tired ache in calf after - but a healthy ache!
Good session, but need a lot more to get strength and speed back!
Good session, but need a lot more to get strength and speed back!
steady run 35:00 [3]
Warm up to cistern track and back plus jog down between hills.
stretching 12:00 [1]
Wednesday Jun 20, 2012 #
Note
Surveying 6.5 hours. Tired.
stretching 12:00 [1]
Tuesday Jun 19, 2012 #
steady run 35:00 [3]
Out in Dess Woods - checking out parts of Deeside way and then loop anticlockwise to fields and back thru woods. Legs heavy at start but improved as run went on. Calf mostly OK - amazing that a 2 hour O race seems to have helped it!
stretching 12:00 [1]
Monday Jun 18, 2012 #
Note
rest - and sleep!
Sunday Jun 17, 2012 #
orienteering race 1:54:00 [4]
Long night Jukola. Started a bit scrappy but got into good rhythm, then sped up with pack and promptly lost 2 - 3 mins! Got tired and a few more little errors. Satisfied with time. Team Maroc did fantastically - 436(subject to corrections!) and with 5 Scandi virgins!
steady run 10:00 [3]
short warm up - saving energy for 14.3km course.
Calf OK - possibly double ibuprofen dose helped.
Calf OK - possibly double ibuprofen dose helped.
Saturday Jun 16, 2012 #
orienteering 30:00 [3]
Trot round model area - not very focussed. Calf quite tender afterwards.
Friday Jun 15, 2012 #
orienteering 1:00:00 [3]
O at Jukola training area- going better than Thursday but still a bit sloppy pn compass. Calf a bit better - maybe will be OK
Thursday Jun 14, 2012 #
orienteering 50:00 [3]
steady on line at Jukola training, then a few controls. Calf tender and awkward. Soaked it in cold lake for 30 mins
stretching
Wednesday Jun 13, 2012 #
steady run 28:00 [2]
Easy run with team at hotel in Helsinki. Calf not great but seemed to ease off after stretching. Fingers crossed it'll keep improving unril Sunday morning.
stretching 12:00 [1]
Tuesday Jun 12, 2012 #
orienteering 38:00 [2]
Hanging and collecting controls for Kincardine O'Neil school O. 10 pupils from older class - most managed OK. Calf still tweaking a bit on hanging, but had eased off by time for collecting. Visited physio - some harsh massage and things definitely eased. Time to take it easy before long night on Sunday morning. Must start doing stretching and strengthening exercises more consistently.
stretching 12:00 [1]
Monday Jun 11, 2012 #
steady run 14:00 [3]
Wee jog round Hill of Banchory. Knees fine now, but calf still aching and feeling awkward.
Pilates 1:00:00 [1]
Last session so mat work - to encourage us to do some over the holidays.....
cycling 15:00 [2]
Home to Kinker and back - to watch Olympic Torch - strangely anti-climactic seeing a small unfit person struggling along the road swamped by large vehicles and (also struggling) police runners. The police motorbikes (can't be any left anywhere in Scotland) and sponsors vehicles were bigger and more impressive.
There's also a major sponsorship opportunity for some entrepreneur - sports bras - the Kinker runner really would have benefitted from one ;-)
There's also a major sponsorship opportunity for some entrepreneur - sports bras - the Kinker runner really would have benefitted from one ;-)
C • haha 2
stretching 12:00 [1]
Sunday Jun 10, 2012 #
steady run 1:23:00 [3]
Home via Deeside Activity Park to railway line, along to Aboyne Loch, up to Mortlich (2 x hard efforts on climb) and back via direct track and waded Dess Burn at end (good for cooling calf. Calf was niggling the whole way but tweaked a bit near the end when "railway Buzz" made a pass at me and I twisted round to keep track of his dive.
Not too bad now, 5 hours later, but need to get something done - it's been going on for weeks now.
Not too bad now, 5 hours later, but need to get something done - it's been going on for weeks now.
Intervals intervals 7:40 [5]
1 x 2 min effort on lower Mortlich hill and 1 x 5-40 effort from gate to top. Calf not great - not able to toe off so hobbling a bit - still left leg got a good work out!
stretching 12:00 [1]
Welcome back to stretching again - must try to be consistent! Things have slipped a lot over the past 2 months... can't think why!
Saturday Jun 9, 2012 #
cycling 1:20:00 [2]
With Sarah and Ewan from Keiloch west along road and track. Track got very rough and unpleasant at end, so turned back. Pleasant cycle.
Friday Jun 8, 2012 #
steady run 2:05:00 [3]
Long run with Sarah - Pottties to Shooting Greens then along ridge to Tom's Cairn (no path and very slow!!), along to Corsedarder stone and back via tarmac on south side of Ballogie. Nice run and steady pace. Legs tired but calf seems OK.
Thursday Jun 7, 2012 #
Intervals hills 6:00 [5]
6 x 1 minute on Fungle - thought I'd try a harder session and test calf. I t held out OK - can feel things a bit snaggly inside while running but no pain after. No heel raises, so must be getting better.
steady run 41:00 [3]
Aboyne Scout hut to Fungle for hills and back via Aboyne Green - did 6 lengths of football pitch barefoot - time to see what Sarah is raving about! Felt OK but nothing special.
Wednesday Jun 6, 2012 #
steady run 48:00 [3]
Run round Dess Wood loop, cowshit alley and bull-evard with Helen. Very wet and buzzard showed an interest. Feeling tired in legs but breathing OK. Calf feeling a bit tight, but possibly due to heel raises - must try without.
Tuesday Jun 5, 2012 #
Note
starting to feel a bit tired.
Monday Jun 4, 2012 #
Note
Sprint day - lie in then a long time at Banchory and a longer time in Braemar at film night.
Sunday Jun 3, 2012 #
steady run warm up/down 5:00 [3]
short warm-up
orienteering race 20:00 [5]
Not sure of time (not in results) - running an Orange course for 8th Maroc junior team (36- age group) - to make up numbers. Not sure how many times the team could have been disqualified, but probably more than 4! Nice course, straight line was pretty technical so a decent race.
Saturday Jun 2, 2012 #
Note
SOC - at race site for much of day and at bar in evening.
Friday Jun 1, 2012 #
Note
still too much