Training Log Archive: Parkino

Event: Midland Championships
 

Midland Champs, Longshaw, M45
not a bad run, but very very slow, so far behind I think something must be wrong, average HR below 155 (but that may be due to the 2min time out, bit dehydrated before I started and overheated badly, working on the start from 9.15 didn't help, took a few controls to get focussed

#1 opted not to ascend the ridge so went round the back of the control, in retrospect this must have cost time [30]
#4 a little hesitant between the walls [20]
#8 paused to decide route (already fatigued!), hesitant in circle [30]
#9 thought my route was good, low around paths, but maybe with my lack of speed straighter would've served me better [.?.]
#10 disappointing error: the sight of many more boulders than marked encouraged me to bail out of my bearing and attack from the main cluster, GPS track shows I was bang on line and within 25m of flag when I did this [40]
#13 better to take high path and drop down, I took low and cut across the slope, hesitant when I saw unmarked gullies [20]
#20 decided to run up the stream, but there was a hedge between it and the narrow gully, which meant I didn't see the control from that side [20]

12th, 11mins behind Dave Peel, and 8 behind Paul Murgatroyd and his run was not much better than mine technically

:(

EMJS, Burbage Mines
shadowing Tom Barber, steady, paused to let Alex Rothman get far enough ahead

EMJS, Surprise View
shadowing Finn Lydon, forest was rough, there was also heather

easy run back from Burbage Boulders to Owler Tor car park

slow-roast pork belly with apple, ate too much, energy consumed in digestion

Oker Loop
easy trot around the Oker loop, very gentle first stretch and finish (never done it as slow!), this was meant to be a low-intensity run, the 'recovery run' from my training programme but average HR snuck above 145, I guess it was the climbs that did it

last run with the More Miles, won't miss them

down to the park for intervals

5 x 1km, off 6--70secs: 3.48 3.55 3.54 4.01 3.52

better, apart from the fourth lap (though on the 2nd and 4th I reversed the loop and had to slow at one slippery corner)

easy run home

more Karen Voight: core conditioning, plus lower body stretches and hips, really get a sweat on during the abdominal work

Farley Moor, Bottom Moor, Upper Lumsdale
nice gentle run on a variety of terrain, newly fallen tree held us up on the exit of the quarries and a decision to avoid the slog up Wirestone lane landed us in farm muck, Bottom Moor was surprisingly dry