Training Log Archive: Billenicus

British Middle Distance Champs - Stock Hill - 4.8Km 150m
Good course, quite tricky in places. Handled it well. Only really lost time on 11-12 where I hadn't planned the leg because of the map flip and took a couple of wrong paths. Struggled a bit physically thanks to lack of terrain running practice and the comparative warmth, but managed to hold it together to the end. Good solid run and glad to get it right when I wanted to.

C • Well done 2

Event: British Sprint and Middle champs.
 

British Sprint Champs - Bath University - M50 heat
Fairly controlled run though felt very rusty at the start and took a while to get into it. Tried not to run too hard and largely succeeded but couldn't afford to hold back too much.

Final. Good course with some tricky route choices involving the musictiple levels in the middle of the campus. A pretty good run with just some very minor time losses; forgot to cut across a lawn 6-7 as too busy trying to work out 7-8, too hesitantat the start of 10-11 and not sure I got the right route, ran past the turn 20-21. Also got stuck waiting for people leaving 18, but those probably only added up to about 15 seconds, while everyone else had bigger time losses.

Got close to catching Alistair L. up after he made a mistake but never quite got close enough to get much help. Was tiring a bit as well as probably started a bit too fast. Happy with the result and a bit surprised.

Tankersley. Trying to get a bit of last minute training in. 5.9Km 170m. Mostly OK but struggled to read the map even at 1:7500. Partly due to evening gloom, partly due to printing, but still frustrating.

Warm up/down.

Another Sprint practice round the Edge. This time did the long course from last weeks race but went from 11 to 14 to miss out a lot of boring running (not that 11-14 was that great!)

A bit better technically than last week - smoother. But still a bit below where I'd want to be speed-wise.

Warming up via Endcliffe Park and a bit of a tour of The Edge to warm down.

In the Comeraghs. From the road below Coumshingaun, up to Coumshingaun then up the ridge on the North side to the plateau. Visited the highest point in the Comeraghs then across and down the ridge on the South side of Mahon Falls and back to the Mahon Falls car park.

First time ever up on top. Great route, but the peak is very disappointing! Feeling a bit better physically.