Training Log Archive: Forest Demon

With Stephen out to Gullane and back. Nice and cruisy, neither of us are exactly star athletes.
Bit of a headwind on the way out, but got blown home pretty nicely. Starting to bonk coming back up the Low Road, dying.

C • Should have 1

Upper back was super tight again - not sure if this is from Front Squat/cycling, or what's causing it. Anyway, skipped out weights, just cause I wanted it to recover

With Rona

Did a bunch of hip mobility, a mixture of stuff she's been told to do, and the stuff I've been doing.

3x5 Pull-ups

Some core work at the end - Ab roller and Deadbugs

Mobility: Hips and shoulders

Easy in East Lothian with Purko, Stephen and Fraser

Commie -> Portobello -> Tranent -> Pencaitland -> Pathhead -> Dalkeith -> Home

Just cruising along, on some nice quiet roads - wasn't too busy till near Dalkeith, very relaxing. Got stuck at some traffic lights for ages, but Stephen kept moral high by falling over, much to everyone's amusement.

Gym avec moi

Standard warm-up, plus some hip/lower back mobility

3x5 Pull-ups

4x5 Front Squat (20, 40, 60 warm-up, 80, 80, 80, 80kg)
4x10 Weighted Hip Thrust (50kg) - This wasn't really heavy enough, and I'm not convinced I can feel it working my glutes that much. But I'll shove the weight up next time and see.

C • Weighted Hip Thrust 11

Was considering a swim, but it was such a nice day it seemed rude to be indoors.

Decided since my hip had felt alright on Sunday I'd try a nice flatish tarmac run for it, to see how it was.
Didn't look at my watch at all, just ran by feel, and everything felt pretty good. Encouraging signs, though I won't run again for the week just to be sensible.

Mobility: Hips, ankle, shoulder

Northern Championships - Bigland

Switched down to course 9 to compete against the W60s.

This was actually lots of fun - hip wasn't too bad, though still niggling on all the up. But felt pretty good on the flats and the downs, result. Started to hurt properly after 9, so got a lot further through a course than last weekend, or even yesterday.

Abject failure to be superman, those W60s are speedy.
Messed up route to 3 - had a plan, but didn't execute it, so did a lot of unnecessary height gain, before getting confused by the unmarked paths.
Rubbish to 12, direction out of 11 was poor so ended up thrashing down a shitty slope through a stream, not great.
Got beaten on the run-in, very embarrassing. I'm gonna blame my hip for that one.

Asides from that, I was relatively happy with how it went. Few other bananas here and there, sliding all over the slopes in my X-talons, but I wasn't hurting too much, and I was having a good time.
Was fun :)

British Night Championships - Great Tower Wood

Retired.
Wasn't having a great time to be honest - hip hurting, lower back sore, couldn't see anything in the mist.
Navigating like an eejit, total failure to check compass or come up with a coherent plan.
A bit frustrating, because I'd have ordinarily really enjoyed this.