Training Log Archive: Parkino

Event: YHOA Superleague
 

YHOA Superleague, Rishworth Moor
Short Brown, 8km
technically pretty good, but damn the rough moor terrain knocks the stuffing out of me, I was done by 9 (48mins)(around 6km) and walked for maybe half the remaining distance (plenty of climbs), I'd caught Matthew Fellbaum at 5, lost around 30secs through to 8 and then he was gone, from there I lost 5mins and I made no mistakes

5) hit it bang on ... except I thought it would be in the first gully and paused to look up and down the feature and re-check the map [20secs]
6) lost the indistinct path and took a detour downhill [20secs], but turns out the higher path and contouring through the bracken was better [60secs]
7) crossed the path and had to stumble back to it [10]
8) hesitation: didn't think the depression was as far down the hill as the behaviour of others suggested [15]
9) hesitation: expected the control in the first gully (where have we heard that one before)[15]
17) came over the hill slightly too low [10]

seems I was leading at 8, and lost 40 secs to Matthew on the next leg, so fading from 8 onwards

the JK is on moorland next year, got to be able to run for 10km on this stuff by then

easy run from the top of Farley to the south end of the moor

jog around Matlock Moor checking the map with Commander Addison

Bottom Moor, Upper Moor, Big Bumper Piece, Whitesprings
nice steady run on mixed terrain - road, trails, rough wood, open heather - doing a tour of all my local O areas

pace slowed by an exercusion into the trees and along nasty ride in Upper Moor, not really worth mapping at the moment

surveying Forty Acre Piece at brisk pace, some jogging

ran around part of the perimeter before mapping, then another part after mapping

2 x 2km intervals, 2mins rest: 8.59 9.09

went off fast, faded a bit, but didn't expect to be so slow, this underlines the effect of the recent cold (which still hasn't entirely cleared)

running with the boys' team in perpetual courses (they didn't have headlamps)

still sniffling

Winster, Aldwark, Pikehall, Long Dale, Elton
not over the cold yet, but improving, so I risked the Monday night run, better pace than usual with only 6 of us out, hard work towards the end and had to dig in to stay with Paul and JD (I'd neglected to charge my lamp so I had to stay with them