Training Log Archive: BrandNewMe

I am considering running M40 at the jk. I am pretty unfit so prizes aren't an issue, but would like a valid result. Anyone know if I would be disqualified?

C • M40 9

Haymarket, Roseburn Cyclepath to Granton Rd, then through Inverleith Park back to work.

Meadows laps.

Now that I have actually entered M40 I'd better plan some training, rather than just 10miles plod a day. 6 week training plan coming up.

Nipped out of work early for a jog home. tight calves. Story of my life.

Arthurs Seat. dry Dam. Dassies, Crags and up cow gate.

Corstrphine hill loop. Lovely and I bumped into Raph, Adam Ward and Graham Beale. Everyone out in the sun.

Home from work taking in a lap of the bog. Nice

lunchtime cycle. Was going to go running after, but ended up working until 10 due to some totally incompetent advisors. I should really have gone for a cycle after, as I was so pissed off I would have got some pretty good Strava pbs.

We unexpectedly found ourselves with a 2 hour kid-free window. We have to take the opportunity to go running together, declares Ray. Do we...really? I think, while smiling and agreeing. Where to, I ask. Arthur's Seat, Ray declares.

We jog there, my body barely moving, and Ray tells me he doesn't want a hilly run. Then why are we at Arthur's seat I think to myself. I remembered a mile in that my hip flexor was flaring up yesterday. Ouch. Getting sore. Then I do an Oleg and inexplicably manage to fall in such a way that I find myself rolling around in the biggest muddiest puddle around. Then Ray tells me he wants to do laps of the XC field (how tedious). After getting to bed v late v much the worse for wear, and getting up at 7 to take Laurence to swimming, my tolerance for running was wearing thin. I then spied Jet jogging in the direction of my house and announced that it was probably best that I let him do laps by himself, and had a nice catch up with Jet on my way home.

Bad hip flexor is not good news.

Still dithering about whether to run the national. Perfect pre race prep of watching Lucy play football on the meadows for an hour in horizontal rain. This jog was to see if I could breathe and run at the same time, and to warm me up.

9 min miling felt ok.

National XC. 3 laps. 10k

Decided I would run 8min miling for the first two laps as I thought that's the pace I could breathe at then see how I felt. I felt ok and pushed on...to another 8min miling lap. People were dying all over the place though, and I cruised past stacks of people on the last lap. Nice.

Sore hip flexor though. 103rd - shite!