Training Log Archive: BrandNewMe

Interested in all of the gender equality discussions. The discussion is in danger of being boiled down to an elite women’s discussion though. Surely equality ought to apply to vets and juniors classes too? And if we are looking to equalise the courses in some way it’s not just the women’s courses that have to change but the men’s too.

It’s good that any discussion is being had.

C • Not just elite 7

Braids and Blackford with WHB. Tired legs. Rest day needed.

Winterlope Inch Park plus.

I should have used my Trainspotting test and gone running elsewhere. This was grimmer than I expected. Two separate groups of approx 10 + young adults hanging around and some kids about Laurence’s age one of which was waiving a baseball bat around his head. I like to think he was doing it to encourage his friends to remember the 2 metre rule. At some point an orienteer is going to get seriously beaten up at an area like this. Does BOF insurance cover it? It won’t be me. I think I’ll become more terrain snobby in the future. Not that I’m ungrateful to those who organise races like tonight, it’s just personally not my thing.

The orienteering was a secondary concern. I dropped a chunk of time near the end when some dog was barrelling towards me, and I decided I’d had enough for one night and went by the main road instead. And I didn’t pick up 17, but I realised afterwards that the map and the MapRun have 17 in different places. Did everyone else navigate off the phone, as they seem to have got it? I might have to give it a try.

C • FWTN 5

Up to KB for the KB Dash for the HBT v Carnethy shenanigans. Not much Dashing was done. My legs were dead and I had the ever cumbersome buggy. Strava tells me that this run was only 2 secs slower than last time I ran it, my fastest time for the segment. Must do it again with fresh legs and no buggy to see how much I can improve by. Still not going to get near my KB PB of sub 25. Home as a warm down.

Parked at Dreg, ran to Allermuir up an unbelievablely steep trod that we had seen last weekend when orienteering. Then my favourite muddy path around the side of Castlelaw to the reservoir, turned right to Black Hill. A couple of hundred metres after the track to Logan cottage there’s a gap in the wall. This takes you into a field which leads up to the Black Hill track, a wonderfully grassy track of the perfect gradient to keep running nicely to the top.

I then came back via Bells Hill and Harbour Hill to Capelaw and back to Dreg. A really fun loop. Felt good for once.

Bertie has started nursery! Yay! Life becomes much easier as we now only have homeschooling and work to worry about. He was in Wednesday and Thursday this week so I had planned to head for a run this afternoon but we missed him too much so picked him up early instead.

Late night post dinner run around AA and the meadows. Nice night for it.

Jog there and back. With Loz so not as slow as I would have liked.

C • speed 1

Arthur’s Seat handicap

Nice day for it, and after hauling myself up to the top of the crags my legs started to feel good for once. Still a long way off my best alas, but I am nailing the route slightly better each time.