Training Log Archive: BrandNewMe

Oleg's Enduro

More HBT challenge fun. Oleg set up an Enduro, which seems to be where a load of Strava segments are strung together into a run. I did it with my friend Mo who is a bit quicker than me but it really didn't matter. Jog to the start, do the segment, regroup at the end, jog to the next one. Brilliant fun. Strava here:

https://www.strava.com/activities/5107113344

Segments were:

Hillend Direct
Bogwall
Bench to Allermuir
Traverse in Stile
Bell's Hill Sunnyside
Harbouring About
Bonaly Lap
Capelaw Zigzag
Bypassing Tourists
Hill-end.

Another walk, from Loanhead exploring Bilson Glen and Polton mill / Mavisbank House. Really nice little trip (tho the kids might not agree.

8, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1.

Felt terrible, but that will be the lack of sleep and the earlier walk. Got it done. Did some drills after, which I probably ought to have done before. The reps might have hurt less then. Around the meadows, which were hooching with police.

Family walk up Allermuir with the kids in the most horrific weather to catch up with a friend of Ray’s who was doing 24hrs of running up Allermuir from Swanston. Really picked great weather for it. Then ray joined him for an hour as we sheltered from the wind and rain in the car.

Lucy’s football was cancelled, so I was FREE for the night. Hot footed it to trotettes for 5 x 2mins on Blackford hill and a trip around braids. Caught up with Tessa too. Training doesn’t get better than that.

Had a bit of a wild post-cycle dinner with friends (needed quite a few warning drinks) so was a bit tough to discover I’d drunkenly agreed to a long 9am run with a much fitter friend in the Pentlands. Ouch! Came home, ate lunch, spent the afternoon in bed.

Sad news on the death of Martin Hyman. He gave so much to the runners of Edinburgh, the British orienteering squad in the 80s and 90s and the Scottish hill running community. The kids loved his junior hills races - lots of chocolate at the finish, prizes for muddiness, and a certificate signed by an Olympian. His weekly training sessions were the bedrock of my training when I was at my best (and uninjured), and I have taken bits from his training talks at squad weekends and built them into my training. He will be sorely missed.

With friends, which significantly reduced the Lucy whinge factor, which significantly increased my enjoyment of the cycle. Musselburgh, and a bit more. Very windy but the cycle path felt sheltered coming back. 22 miles.

Down and back

The Arthur’s Seat handicap is run backwards in April. I took my phone with me for once and stopped to take some pics. It was halfway to whinny when I stopped to take some pics of the crags that I realised I had forgotten to start my watch - damn.

So I ran the whole thing - whinny, Dunsapie, Crow, Summit, Nether then the crags and back to the start, which I ran through and on to where I started my watch so that I had a time for the lap. Fun running it the other way.