Running42:14 8.48 km (4:59 / km) +16m4:56 / km ahr:127 max:139 shoes: Nike Air Zoom Terra Kiger 7
Mooch down to catz fields.
11 AM
Running22:17 4.18 km (5:20 / km) ahr:135 max:148 shoes: Nike Air Zoom Terra Kiger 7
WU. Feeling gash, but ploughed on regardless and sure enough it paid off.
Running20:16 4.13 km (4:54 / km) +4m4:53 / km ahr:162 max:188 shoes: Nike Streakfly
Track sesh 1000, 800, 600, 400, 200 (3mins recovery between reps) 2:45, 2:11, 96, 62, 27 I am become silly track runner. Supporter of speed sessions in September. I did this session as part of (or rather at the back of) a massive group in late May last year after 2 solid months of speed sessions so come on my lonesome to a very windy track and equal/better the times is surely a good sign. The homestraight/back bend was a real grind today and resulted in some seriously uneven splits. No worries - it was still good work and we knocked out some good times. I had the finnish eurovision song going round in my head which is a pretty fantastic music choice for this kind of session. Cha cha cha indeed. Creds if you recognised the reference.
Running20:57 3.38 km (6:12 / km) +8m6:08 / km ahr:135 max:144 shoes: Nike Air Zoom Terra Kiger 7
An absolute crawl, punctuated by bumping into Heather for the second day in a row. Wowzers.
Running43:38 9.02 km (4:50 / km) +2m4:50 / km ahr:135 max:149 shoes: Nike Air Zoom Terra Kiger 7
Wanted 8. Got 9.
4 PM
Running53:01 11.07 km (4:47 / km) ahr:138 max:156 shoes: Nike Air Zoom Terra Kiger 7
Wanted 10. Got 11. A lovely afternoon showing granny round cam and trin in particular so it made sense to take an easy day and not fight the logistics.
Running42:02 [2] 8.74 km (4:49 / km) ahr:141 max:151 shoes: Nike Pegasus 40
Long razminka around Eddington and west cam before winding my way into the centre. Very sunny - nice. I need to get new shoes - too many miles in these bad boys.
Orienteering30:49 7.57 km (4:04 / km) +6m4:03 / km ahr:172 max:184 shoes: Nike Pegasus 40
2x sprints around central Cam with Jackland, planned by Emil (thanks very much!) A really enjoyable hit out this morning. I had no real intentions of going hard, the focus was much more on the technical side, namely planning ahead well. I mostly did this pretty well and kept up a sufficiently respectable speed to make have said buffer as tricky as it should be in a training session. 1 small miss and a sub-optimal route on the first one, and then one confusion on the second one - didn't read the description, lazy. Although I did save James from getting trapped in some sort of loading area by a very menacing and rapidly closing gate through some quick thinking. All emerged unscathed. But just think of the stories. The map could do with an update in places, although we perhaps weren't using the most up-to-date version. Not sure.
Running6:11 [2] 1.11 km (5:34 / km) +7m5:23 / km ahr:140 max:150 shoes: Nike Pegasus 40
Back home, partly with James, musing over the hidden difficulties of sprint in a rather nerdy fashion.
Running1:52:03 24.69 km (4:32 / km) +72m4:28 / km ahr:143 max:154 shoes: Nike Pegasus 40
SLR with the emphasis on L. A bit further than what I was looking for today if I'm honest, but all the same it was very nice to have a hit out around Lode with a decent bunch to chat away with. Turns out a certain Mr Grierson's flatmates had joined us, so that was fun. It's good to know that despite not having run here for nearly 18 months, it is still not massively interesting landscape-wise. Unless you like fields and hedges. In which case it's wall to wall joy. Big week. A little less next week as we work our way into the big stuff coming up :)
Yes! Money session today. I had a wee look back at the log just now and realised that the last time I did a standard, full-length, non-orienteering interval session was 15th August, so this was a bit of a shock. But boy is it nice to have a race-free weekend. I had a rough idea of the paces I wanted to do and pretty much hit them bang on. I had predicted 101s for the 6s so this was encouraging. It was a grind doing this solo and the 6s had a headwind surplus, but otherwise it was great to get back to the speed boost of the track. Felt strong and it really started to hurt as it went on, particularly during the last set. My body was clearly pretty under siege because I had a thumping headache for about 10 minutes after finishing. A good sign, I would say. Great stuff. I feel like my mojo is more or less back, so let's keep the momentum up for the rest of the season.
Running14:13 2.37 km (6:00 / km) +7m5:55 / km ahr:142 max:149 shoes: Nike Pegasus 40