Training Log Archive: AlistairH

Sunday long run - from Meadows up river round Rigg Race route to Balerno. With some bits of walking. A bit longer than last week and wasn't as fresh, finishing quite tired. Still, have definitely moved up a step at these.

Felt like I could run fine today but decided to take another day off as planning a long run tomorrow and this is meant to be an easy week - only just back to longer distances.

Tired.

Jog to TT which was the Blackford Hill Orienteering Permanent Course. Thought this might be a bit of an uninteresting session but it was a lot of fun racing round in a pair with others everywhere. A couple of the controls were hard to find in the undergrowth until I realised they were always located somewhere fairly accessible, never in the middle of thickets/overgrown clearings etc, always at a path at the edge. Ran with a newcomer who was enjoying my route crossing the stream multiple times and up and down some steep slopes and we were the only people to complete the course in the hour. Came second though because the winner was to be the team that made the longest word out of the letters at the controls they went to and we only managed 9 letters, someone managed 10!