Training Log Archive: Big Jon

From B&B to Plockton for coffee, then onto Kyle and over bridge to Skye, cafe at Kyleakin, then back to Kyle for lunch. Train back to Strome Ferry and push bike up the steepest Hill in the area and a free wheel back to B&B. Tiring day with lots of short sharp hills, and legs already a bit tired from survey.

4 hours survey - lunch with Ewan while Sarah went training

cycling with Ewan on tag-along, near Plockton to beaches and round village etc.

5.5 hours survey (meeting Sarah and Ewan in afternoon. Onto more open moor and covered a large area.

8 hours survey at Balmacara - tough work in deep heather and scrub birch with bracken, still breezy so no midges....

8 hours survey at Balmacara, warm and cloudy, but windy so no midges!!

From high point of road up to Meall Dudh - there can't be many better view points on a day like this - 5 Sisters, Beinn Sgreadhall, Knoydart Hils, Skye, Raasay, Applecross, Torridon and others in between.

4x4+2 on deeside way east of Kinker - good stretch of track, mostly flat, but a few sharp little climbs. Hot day - going well on first then felt tougher on rest of intervals.

from Kinker to start of intervals, some fairly large areas of erosion after yesterday's rain

Aboyne Community Centre to home along railway line - absolutely pissing it down - ankle deep in water most of the way (we had 66mm of rain in 12 hours - annual total is only about 750!). Enjoyed run/swim in a sort of masochistic way!