Training Log Archive: IanW

Event: British Middle Champs
 

Warm up before race, jogging along grassy bit by road into car park, checked out the spectator control on the tunnel and had a bit of a stretch

BEOC Middle, Fonthill. One big stupid mistake and a few bobbles but otherwise quite good, could have been near to the 45min target otherwise. Wasn't too enamoured with the map though, quite a bit of detail didn't seem to be on the map and the undergrowth screens were variable.

More analysis to be found with the splits (once they're up)

C • Route 1

Just been looking at the map from today again and amazed at how much detail is hidden under circles, lines AND numbers. In some places it gets ridiculous. Just spotted the thicket I tried to use as a distance marker on the way to #19 hidden under the number... It doesn't take much effort to break circles, check lines and move the numbers so why don't they do it?!?

C • Control circles 1

Have noticed I've been getting really quite sloppy technically recently, not looking at the map and compass enough (although today's terrain didn't help map-wise). I don't know whether it's a case of southern-england mode kicking in too much, or that I'm just running for too long without concentrating/thinking, but I need to get into better habits again. Reckon a lot of it is to do with not planning ahead enough, so I might try out a slightly different method tomorrow...

M21E (and M18/20/21/35) - Splits

3 bursts of cycling, wouldn't usually log them but I was moving fairly fast!

12 mins Stavs -> Univ sports ground
13 mins Sports Ground -> Stavs
10 mins Stavs -> South Parks

More cricket - a couple of hours. Eventually got a vaguely decent rhythm going on the bowling and had a bat as well - have to learn to control the drives a bit better than that though. Could also have done with facing a better bowling attack, there were many balls that didn't reach me...

Hills session in South Parks - SGB appeared, and then disappeared into the distance on each rep. Was feeling a bit empty and so it was a lot more of an effort than it should have been, struggled a lot. Long gradual hills are more of a killer than they should be. Or maybe that's just because I'm lazy...

Did 5 reps from gate at bottom of hill to bench 400m away, just over 20m climb in that distance. time is a guess but sounds about right...

Recovery time dropping back down the hill again, although minimal effort heart and breathing rate was still pretty high. Walked a bit sometimes. Then warm down round SGB's standard loop at the end of it, felt strange pain in shin... hoping it's nothing too bad

Cycle to Youlbury with Kat

Back from Youlbury via Univ Sports Ground, time freewheeling not logged. Kat > if you think those downhills are scary, wait 'til you get to the top of Shotover!!

C • Downhills. 5

Time at Youlbury spent looking over map for Summer Series event. The map seems to have reached the stage where the base path network is slightly out and this has affected the positioning of everything else - things don't seem OK relative to what is immediately around them, but look a bit further than that and it doesn't match up...

Cricket session at Univ Sports Ground - slight drizzle in the air and very green pitch meant ball got very wet and slippery quite quickly. Would be nice to have an extended bowl at one point soon, couldn't get in any sort of rhythym today - kept on overpitching then dragging it short... No real exercise involved :)