Training Log Archive: Parkino

Matlock Bank, Farley Moor
beautiful day but no decent orienteering within 80 miles, couldn't even get out to the Edges, took a run up to Farley instead, to check out the SE corner and also my rough satellite-image re-survey of the moor

slow to get going, almost abandoned at the top fo the road (this will be my fourth consecutive training day), it was kind of a made-up fartlek session, stop start, easy then more intense, a reasonable pace on the way home, but hell it's all a bit of a struggle

DVO Night Event, Hardwick Hall
pretty good run both physically and technically, although I neglected to read the map in detail

bit of a banana at 14 where I couldn't see the wood from the trees, literally, I couldn't distinguish between the runnable and the semi-open, suspected I was going wrong and confirmed it by the sight of the fence, tricky control at night

4th 11mins behind Richard Robinson

Oker Loop
didn't run fast enough yesterday (nor for long enough) so took myself out on the same loop and tried to do it faster: mission accomplished ... by 9secs

good that I got out for training runs on consecutive days, not so good they were both so slow, slower than my long runs, although those tend involve more pavement than the Oker loop

Oker Loop
thought I'd catch the last of the daylight with a quick one around Oker, lovely misty dusk by the time I got to the top

but something's wrong, the engine's not working, fine to the first split, but plodded up the hill, no speed or strength, 49 seconds slower than last time (late August), which was a minute slower than my best on that route

Farley Hill, Upper Lumsdale, Tansley Moor, Matlock Bank
same as last week, not so good, took a while to get into gear, don't know why