Training Log Archive: Leon

Event: SN Urban Event
 

Dropped Charlotte off at Teddington gate to do Bushy, and I headed over the Thames to Kingston

Kingston parkrun - 1st, 16.52

Solo front run, solid.
Flat all the way out and back course, though got a bit rough under foot then very rough as we went round the far end.
Pleasingly last mile was the quickest after wavering a bit in the middle.

Down through Kingston and over Thames to the Bushy finish line, but didn't take best route, so a bit further than intended...

Down Basingstoke canal to the start. Very warm now

Woking Goldsworth Park urban - 1st, 49.25

It was a good thing I eased into this, as the heat meant I was struggling greatly from halfway, really had to focus to keep moving and motivate myself. Suprised I didn't make more mistakes as mind was very tired.

Great area and for the most part, very well planned, plenty of route choice and I missed a couple. The sequence of shorter legs from 7 to 15 meant I couldn't plan ahead for the long leg, where the uncrossable wall at the end caught me out though it wasn't far to go round. In my physical state at this point I couldn't have crossed it anyway. Almost missed the northern route to #23 and only spotted it because I wondered why other people were going that way.

Final leg was quite strange, lot of navigation to get to the finish and across a car park as well, seemed odd to me. Some of the grippling left a lot to be desired, laminate tags with control code on covering the hole a lot of the time.

Good event overall.

Shuffled to get liquid with massive chaffage

Loop Line
Took it exceptionally easy, no idea how that meant running at the pace that happened.

Continuing the quality over quantity theme

Was meant to be doing Sunderland 5k, but train chaos put paid to that

Nunroyd Park O - 2nd

Ran hard but my failure to navigate properly left me 2nd to a clean run from Niall.
Ballsed up #1completely as did a few others, in my defence the path was a bit indistinct but that is a weak defence as there is a marked tree in line with the entrance to it.
Then couldn't access #8 directly from north after 2 attempts due to too many nettles, so had to backtrack slightly. An ambitious route choice perhaps but would have worked in winter.

Decided due to lack of race to tempo home, which was into the wind so the effort felt hard for not much in the way of pace at first. Had a word with myself and found another gear, so the last 10 mins were sub 6 pace, which was fine.

Water Haigh with Susan
Felt faster than it was, for both of us.