Training Log Archive: philm64

Still tired.

Passed referencing, so will be moving a week Monday - good. Worry over.

new postcode is BS14 9AZ if anyone wants to look. / criticise / applaud / laugh / sigh in desperation.

C • Clap clap clap..... 3

forgot I'd logged a rest day, and felt like a spin later so bumbled around the park & totterdown for an easy relaxed & enjoyable 30 min trundle.

the hill I did 3 times in the race last Saturday is still nails, at any pace! don't believe me? come and do it. Liz agrees.

Walking for 2 hrs+ around Tyntesfield , checking control sites & map for 8th October Saturday series event. A few minor map changes.

Who's coming? Who's helping?

Very tired today. Need a rest, actually.

I've accepted his house to live in, from early October, subject to vetting (them vetting me) http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/proper...

It has parking, & is quiet, & close to things I do, so should be OK.

Shame about the failure of 56 Mendip road as a home, but there you go. at least I made a fat profit. . . . pre-Brexit..... (just!)

C • new house 3

Midweek beasting. Took an urban O map to get into looking at maps.

Quite hard up hills early on, paused at 6.5km & ran easily round Hengrove Mound nature reserve, that I'd not seen before.

More pain later - LH hip / buttock / hamstrings sore - grim. Dying in sun - hot.

800m slightly uphill road section at 50 mins in 3:01/2 - fastest ever is 2:57 so pretty good - felt rough tho, & very sweaty.

Good session, but not back to my best yet & some way to go - plus I feel recovery is taking a while. Hmmmm.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1371849...

indoor bouldering at Bloc climbing centre.

Really good. A lot better than 2 weeks ago.

Found myself flashing loads of Orange problems onsite, and crushing a Black that had totally repelled me 2 weeks ago.

IN fact, started repeating all the hard ones just to prove I could really do them, no fluke! All fine.

Climbing is on the up, it helps that I still weigh about 66% of what I'm supposed to - I feel very thin & weightless. Spiderman!

Quite knackered, but not ill, & not as knackered or stiff / sore as I'd feared I'd be. Liz gave my hips & hamstrings a 30 minute once over last night post hot bath, which probably helped.

WIM level C Godshill O race.

Got there early to find no maps for Brown left - WTF?
luckily I nabbed pre-hungover Mike Halletts entry instead. At junior price - WINNER.

Brown , 8.6km, 29 controls (I'm counting the finish as a control, too), 120m (but Garmin says I climbed 178m?)

lovely day. a bit scrappy early on, small misses at 2, 9 (2mins?), then after a bit of a ding dong with Richard Cottle (bald; white t shirt) - he's a strong runner, a BOK M50 - I finally shook him off with poor orienteering style, including a vile marsh bad choice, (OOB), then launched into the woods where it all got very vague & grim, and I tired rapidly.

Trundled around, winning some bingos, losing others. Annoying some other veteran men ("Sneaky" snapped one at me as I ducked round him & found the control 1st), & yet still able to push ahead of all of them. Passed Tommi, he led me to one, I helped him at the next etc. Then just when I'd had enough, thank you, A LONG leg to 27 landed me near the circle with a surprising Peter Ward who'd clearly been there A LONG TIME. the whole map / forest there was a mystery. I hadn't a clue. Happily, I only lost 4 minutes to Clive here, as Pete found the control (bingo) - dreadful non-feature. Clive was 3 mins, me nearly seven, and on the Blue, Nigel Bunn took 9 minutes to do a vastly shorter leg to the same appalling control site!!!!

Very good penultimate leg (BEAT CLIVE!), then the crux - how to find the finish. Ferns, vegetation - a rough bearing, stop - no, which veg boundary is that? 59 seconds later, a helpful pedestrian showed me the flag, and I gratefully punched. Pete Ward wasn't there - he was doing a 45 degree error somewhere else.

Massive gaps in the results, I'm told Richard COttle eventually did 111mins, I was miles ahead of respectable O-ers like Lucy Butt, Alan Velecky, Pete Ward, yet miles behind Sir Clive, and then Peter Bray pinged 55 mins to make everyone else look silly.

A great sunday!
results - big gaps! - http://www.mjk2.net/waffle/misc/godshill160918/bro...
splits: poor Richard Cottle! http://www.mjk2.net/waffle/misc/godshill160918/bro...

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1367626...

Victoria park fun run

last did it in 2013, when I won with the inaugural course record of 20:15 (jogged 1st lap), which fell last year (20:03).

3 1 mile laps of viccy park with a total brute of a hill near the end of each lap (but then downhill to complete lap).

the "kids" sprinted off fast, but I was taking this "fun run" proper seriously so made a commanding move to oust them all & take a decent lead after < 500m, & noticed that the high quality field of serious male club racers was unable to go with my blistering pace (Garmin said 3:34 pace).

At 1km, it said 3:41, yeah ok maybe I am being exuberant..... group behind fracturing & one guy - Tim White - closing on me, and tho I held the lead up the foul hill, he was on me by 1 lap (6:12) - and I was struggling.
Blowing up slightly on 2nd lap, Tim was away, especially on the hill. He was 5 secs up at 2 miles

Lap 3 was all about not dying completely, he was 20 seconds ahead by the last turn, and I was beaten, but we were miles inside the old record, with the record holder on over 20 mins in 3rd.

2nd again. sigh. Pretty poor run and badly misjudged, but a good try-out. And - heh - FUN! (there was also a dog show, which was hilarious - best "waggie tail" etc) - and Liz & Nellie came down to watch / laugh.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1365467...

KMS: 3:41 (half a hill), 3:52 (half a hill), 4:02 (hill), 3:47 (flatter), 3:52. (hill).
laps 6:16, 6:28; 6:36 (steadily dying).

C • Molehill or hill? 4