Training Log Archive: Big Jon

Cycle to Sluie and back. Tired at start, very tired on return

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?

C • 1st control? 4

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!).

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........

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!

Warm up to cistern track and back plus jog down between hills.

Surveying 6.5 hours. Tired.

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!

rest - and sleep!