Training Log Archive: Big Jon

home - Stot Hill - Broom Hill - Craiglich - Mortlich - Little Hill - home.Started steadily and slow early on with a lot of rough grass and forest in first section. Then hit forest roads towards Craiglich and sped up (a little!). Descent form Craiglich was a bit rough - deep heather over rocks, but only short. After that just a question of keeping moving. Bracken off Mortlich was a bit of a swim for a couple of '00 metres!
Pleased to have done the loop.

Home - riverbank - Bellwood - old road - DW - home. Took steady as legs feeling bit tired form let 2 days surveying. Gradually got into it and enjoying it for the last 30 mins or so.

A better day - only one very light shower with sun and a stiff breeze for rest of the day, so most things nice and dry :-) Lots of hills and still plenty of felled stuff, but some lovely patches of runnable forest as well.
Had planned to run once home but legs (and head) said no - plus tea was ready soon after I got back :-)

Tough day, showers, heavy undergrowth and lots of felled areas.

C • Just what I wanted to hear! 4

Extra session - due to my incompetence in checking how many weeks i had already booked :-)
Interesting to try a second session in a week. Felt good and strong, maybe continue with one Zoom class and a real class once they start again.

C • Real classes 3

Deeside Runners (the return...) Glen Tanar. 2 bridges loop with 1+1 out to far end. 9 x 1 then 2-24 bridge to bridge. Sesion went pretty well considering I'd done hills yesterday. Only really struggled on last interval and it was 2-24, so legs tied up after about 90 secs of 1 minute pace...
Legs feeling pretty strong, need to up cadence a bit for more speed, but I suspect it is heart and lungs that are the limiting factor now.

Zoom class interrupted by our utterly crap internet - nearly 3 weeks of 1-2Mbps...
However class overran so it reached the hour :-)

Hills 10x1 at Glen dye on forest road near main car park. Tough to start and got progressively harder. Glad to have done it.