Training Log Archive: philm64

GWR Towpath Race 1. 10km. good conditions.

Felt ready for this, & hips / back less painful than yesterday. Road racers on.

Start felt OK & stuck roughly to 3:55 / km plan - tho 1st 2 were both 3:51. Joined by friend & arch rival Vet50 Paul Deaton, & we slowly carved through those who'd gone off too fast, to reach 4km together & running neck & neck (and well). Here is where I dropped him with a surge last time. This time we were together til the turn (5km in 19:35 official; 19:26 on my garmin ), & I put in a little surge to catch a GWR runner. Paul didn't come with me.

Passed GWR chap, & pressed on, startled by a 3:49 km. Committed now, but catching others, and passing/ dropping them. Caught 1st lady, Annabel Granger, B&W Vet45, well chuffed, she's ace & did 2:48 at London & I've never "beaten" her before. Ran with her for a bit then edged ahead. Dropped her. What's going on? A crap 4:06km, I must be dying. So why am I still passing people?

Passed 2 others then dying from 8km (31:30?), and dead from 9km. A bit miffed to lose a place on the run in and also miss 2017's 39:17. whatever. Paul on 40:25. I won Vet50. Wine. I also won the raffle. I gave that wine to Paul.....

Owain has done 31:20 on this course & Ifor did 32:30-ish back in the day, Mark Burley has done c.37:30, so this is all rather slow. I did 37:47 here in 2016. Oh well. Getting older!

http://www.greatwesternrunners.org.uk/index.php/re...

https://www.strava.com/activities/2412484313

C • Well done. 7

Steady run with Tim up Frome valley. Felt sluggish & hips / lower back horrible. (sick of this). Tim also felt rough - he's not had a day off since before SINS....

https://www.strava.com/activities/2409642948

Indoor bouldering at Bloc, climbing training. Felt utterly trashed.

I did make it up a load of reds. Orange now harder than reds, it seems. I say i was up a load of 5c problems, but definitely no 6as. Technique good, finger strength good. Arms very stringy / veiny, & effective. But felt worn out.

One of the latest stars of UK climbing was there, & IMO will be dead within a few months/ years ,as she's the most emaciated human I've seen this century. Eating disorders in young female sport can be a really, really serious issue. What to do?

I came home & ate a pie.

C • I laughed 2

BOK urban - Pomphrey, shadowing Finlay Anderson. on Green course. he did quite well, a bit slow through controls, no big mistakes. To easy for him really!

Vandalism of no 3 on Blue was a shame but lukcily it was found in a pond nearby & the unit retrieved. Record turnout tonight , & more maps will need to be ordered for next week's event at Bradley Stoke.

Collecting controls - at first on foot, then later in the dark in car - until after 9:30pm. Got home 10:20pm.....!

https://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/sites/defau...

Much needed. Knackered.. But intact. Watched the 5km fast race...

SINS day 3 - Middle, wrekin, great fun, very steep, luckily later start so tracked up / brambles had been penetrated by earlier runners.

3.3km, 230m, M55, 3rd 39:29 (Clive sub 35, Tim 38:41)

Long walk up to no 1, no 2 was tricky, then just trying not to get injured, crazy steep descents & contouring (ankle taped....), had a tow from David Bunn somewhat (Nigel started 4 mins after me but messed up no 2), Clive's time very quick, he must be a fearless machine! Lost about 1 min at no 13 due to getting stuck in brambles when too high. But Nigel & Tim on the lower route also lost time due to (apparently) dodgy veg boundary mapping.

On a couple of legs, eg. no 11/12, I was able to run very fast & won/joint won these splits.

Great w/e, was 2nd overall to Tim. Clive put me in my place, but he didn't do Urban so no overall result for him.

http://sins.org.uk/Results2019/20190527_Wrekin_Res...

RG. https://www.hoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#59&rout...

https://www.strava.com/activities/2403623606

C • Wrekin 6

Midland champs, day 2 of SINS, 8.3km, 240m. Ankle taped.
BROWN CLEE

Slow to no 2 then things started working. Found it easier than BOC 2016, also where i lost 8 minutes there, I had a hard leg today and nailed it - recognised it ! Lost about 1min at no 8 as the re-entrant seemed to point the wrong way - compass work lax? Nigel Bunn started 8 mins before me & pounced at no 11 so i was gobsmacked, assumed we'd ding dong to the finish, but no, he was puffing & heaving & I took a less full-on route to no 16 & got a small but crucial gap which I built on. Pressed on, caught Mike Johnson 4mins, and also Heather Roome, and then found I was lacking as they really ran hard down the long hill to finish. I fell heavily over a wire fence but picked myself up to stagger in for 3rd trying to close on Mike J & Heather..... but Clive 2 mins up, Tim 30 secs up (Tim hungover & said "should have been won in well under an hour" - Chas?) .

PLeased. Was 2nd in M50 in 2016 but this is OK.

http://sins.org.uk/Results2019/20190526_BrownClee_...

RG https://www.hoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#57&rout...

https://www.strava.com/activities/2403621420

Event: Spring time in Shropshire
 

SINS day 1 - Shrewbury urban - 5.4km (straight line)

Idiotic start - read map from start, not start triangle YOU IDIOT, immediately found myself in deep stinging nettles & a ravine with rocks, yobboes (yes really - stoned / drunk? yelling abuse) and a river. 45 - 60 seconds binned to no 1; then no 3, ran to the correct tree ,and shades of Winchester urban - what do i do now??????? "luckily" this time i saw a track into a tree on the WRONG side of the path. Dibbed, ran off.

By now I was over a minute down on Mike pedley..... even worse, overshot 7 so found no 8 first - comically bad.

Carried on with a bit more competence, tho route choice wrong to no 16. Also trying not to run too hard or try 100% as "mindful" of Midlands tomorrow. Also quite warm. Overheating a bit.

Ended up 4th on course, they took out no 3 (wrong tree, for sure), only 1 minute behind Nigel & Tim; that's OK but honestly need to address my concentration issues. My head was still on the cliffs of Upper Pen Trywn, Llandudno. With good reason.

result http://sins.org.uk/Results2019/20190525_Shrewsbury...

RG: - comedy of errors. https://www.hoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#56&cour...

https://www.strava.com/activities/2403617772