Training Log Archive: Old Daniel

CW leg 2 Stanway to Cleeve Hill with Dave and Celia -weather better than expected -good route

C • Leg 2 3

Nice day, chased Laura for six miles along Ridgeway turned round and tried to chase her back. Not sure why this path is so tricky to run on as its flat perhaps its the ruts

Ran with Pete from Chew -basically up and down Dundry. Nice day, nice run

Good warm up and warming down

BAOC event (apparently training not MLS) at Norris Hill. A flat and actually pretty unexciting but pleasant extension to Long Valley 1.7500 map basically went everywhere twice. A bit hesitant through some flat marshy bits but overall pretty straight forward and quite a positive way to rebuild a bit of confidence

Took the day off -needed to recover

Relays: basically bad went to worse. Hardly slept and felt grotty. Snow and initially heavy rain. Mud everywhere very difficult day for poor Evie, and almost impossible for Laura. If it had been an individual race I don't doubt we would have given it a miss. Stressed before start and could not warm up properly. The race just ran away from me, hit no 1 but lost 30 secs at 2, just chased to 3 and 4 trying to catch up, but legs seemed to be treading water. Wrong code at 4 although on some kind of thicket......as I was chasing not quite sure I was in correct place searched spur , realised must have overshot and went back to previous one, could not make map fit went back to 3 and navigated carefully to 4......and yes I had been here 6mins earlier. Forest now empty but pressed on with confidence a bit shot and did not seem to be spiking anything, all the legs and there were a lot seemed to 50 m long. More disaster again I could not make map fit going to 15 far, far to far high and east. Relocated near 17 and then completed race with out incident but another 5mins lost.

One to forget - sorry team mates

Another double warm up

JK Long Race Beaudesert Park, did too much running straight early on and quite slow but steady to no 10 where stupidly spurned path route and lost 2 mins another 4 mins on short leg to 13 thrashing around too far east in heavy brashings. Got my act together in second half and improved from 38th to 21st.