Training Log Archive: Ollie

From Paddington, via Euston Road. Limiting speed due to the injury. However, it is difficult to go slowly on such a major road as Euston Road.

Run along canal from Summertown via Wolvercote, then down the Isis towpath to Sanford Lock. Pulled hamstring on way back, while diverting around a marsh under some pylons, so had to walk 8km back through Oxford. Ow!

This was intended to be a 32km run, aiming to run 5:10/km for 4km, then 4:50/km for 4km, repeating the pattern till the end. My first 4km ended up being a fast one though, mainly due to the embarrasment of running into several cul-de-sacs while trying to reach the canal. Turns out the turn I wanted was called 'First Turn' sigh. So, having alternated the pattern, I was able to keep pretty much to it, until aggregating the hamstring pull at precisely the 16km step up to a faster pace.

4km splits (target 19:20, 20:40 alternating): 18:28, 20:19, 19:20, 20:31. 5km splits: 23:34, 24:50, 25:09. Then 1h25 for the walk home.

Road route to avoid the presumably extremely busy canal.

Event: JK 2010
 

In to Sloane Square, got soaked as it rained almost the whole way. Then to work.

Hit the lunchtime crowd (joggers on the canal and noticeably heavier traffic on the roads) - bad news. Actually, literally hit at one point - oops.

Via Fleet Street.