Training Log Archive: BrandNewMe

The results have me down as running W35. It is the same course, but I did actually specifically enter W21. Is being young such a handicap?

Warm down / up

Scottish night champs

Staggering around the heathery pentlands / bonaly area. I was staggering in an accurate direction, and fluked the more bingo-ish controls fairly successfully, except 7 (did the ride leading to the control really exist?) and 8 (still confused about that one!) but I think everyone was thrown by those two. Found myself in a Fraser - Paddy sandwich in the results -satisfying.

C • satisfying sandwiches 1

The gp called me back in after some abnormal blood test results. I dutifully make an appointment and turn up with tired bored kids in tow, to see a locum who hasn't fully qualified, and can't interpret the results at all. Erm, I'll have to get back to you on that, he tells me. He'll look into it over the weekend and give me a ring. Google, I presume.

I could do with working out how to fix the gears so I can swap from big front chain ring to small front chain ring again. There is presumably a part that I am supposed to have been oiling...

C • bike 5

Van in for its mot. Bike problems with gears, breaks, and my quads, but apart from that, ok.

I want to get back into this. I think it helps stretch my muscles a bit and helps my body tolerate running. If my internal thermostat can cope, and I can keep my Reynauds under control without leaving me exhausted, I'll keep it up.

The plan said 6 miles easy. I had to work through lunch, and knew that if I went home I would never get out of the house as I am a bit tired, so I ran from work before cycling home. HW loop avoiding the water feature. Feeling better than the past 2 days.

Scottish water seem to be tarmacking the canal path from HW probably all the way to Ratho. This is good. At least I have a chance of getting near my 8 and 10 mile tempo run times again.

Warm up

Trying to get some energy into my legs. I feel the improvement in my back from the yoga.

3 x 4mins on, 4 mins off, then warm down included.

Felt shocking again. Didn't even get 1k in the reps I don't think. I knew I was going to feel shit, but sometimes you have to force yourself out. Weigh up why you feel shit (overweight, unfit, doing training and my body is not used to that, lacking in sleep, carryinging a slight injury to my r foot, still a bit wiped out from last weeks sickness) and divide them into reasons why running will make things better (unfitness, overweightness, getting my body used to training) and why it will make things worse (lacking in sleep, carryinging a slight injury to my r foot, still a bit wiped out from last weeks sickness). Forcing myself to go running wins. Foot was fine running, but mid afternoon walk to the printer is tricky.

Felt so rubbish. So unfit. Same route as thursday, as I was curious to see how deep the water was. Mid thigh now. Deep enough to need to take my ipod out of my shorts pocket, not so deep that I get wet pants. I am (optimistically) starting a new training plan, while pessimistically thinking my body will give up by the weekend...

Robin tells me my si card was faulty at the big weekend - the bleep was broken. Do I get reinstated? Ray seems to think so, but he just wants to beat me officially!

I think more of a problem with si air is that it has (I believe) lots of different sensitivity settings. When we used it 2 years ago in perth at the scottish mixed sprint relay practice, you could punch about a metre away. The settings must have been much more sensitive at the big weekend, as I must have got pretty damn close, if not touched, each control. So we need consistent settings, and full details of the sensitivity setting at each event (which I imagine robin provided at the big weekend - I am terrible for just skim reading details). Or i need to check for beep / flash more often, but that is just tedious.

C • SI AIR 21

Yoga with Rodney. The runners session. Short on time.

Through pollock, anticlockwise around queens drive, then up the royal mile to the castle doors, then back through the meadows. Edinburgh is one cool city.

No running. The vomiting big goes on. Feeling rough!