Training Log Archive: Mark3

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My foot still hurts a bit so walking on eggshells until after the weekend. Usually I'm not so tentative but I don't want to let Mark down :)

Decided not to risk anything this week!

Put in some effort on a segment to see if any body parts fell off. Seemed to suffer no ill effects (although 2s short of winning the segment dammit).

Definitely starting to get back to normal. Might do the fell session tomorrow as a final thing before the OMM. TBC. Starting to look forward to it; weather forecast for Friday looks pretty good, and how different can Saturday be, right?

Wrapping myself in cotton wool...

Could feel right knee all the way around, which was worrying. Foot didn't hurt that much while running but hurts now.

Aside from that - pretty good run. Essentially a middle distance race; 2 long(er) legs but mostly control picking. Good use of a small area.

Up until 17, no mistakes at all and happy with my route choices. This is notable in itself! Small miss on 18; good plan but bad implementation, didn't make enough use of the catching-car park. Then on 26, my PJ AP was too far away from the control and I got lost in the multiple thickets. These are probably only a minute loss in total though.

Haven't seen results yet but winning when I left :)

Really good Parkrun. Up in the moors, starting by the side of a reservoir and then two out+back sections up hills. Nothing massively steep though. My biggest problem was the 500m section, that you did twice, of cobbles which were very very slippery and off-road shoes gave no grip whatsoever. Downhill was marginally better than uphill, but that reason alone would mean the course is probably a minute faster in the dry. Would wear road shoes next time whatever I think, although some of the other bits of the course then become a bit iffy.

5th up until about halfway, then 3 and 4 were rubbish at the hills or started too fast. Very nearly caught 2 as well but he turned around and saw me at the end and sped up. The winner was miles ahead of us both.

Extensor still sore but it's a niggle rather than extremely painful, so I'm going to ignore it.

60min score. It's no secret that I hate scores, but this was the only event on today and I though the area sounded nice. Which it was. Ran in a coat since it was compulsory to carry one and I didn't want to.happy with that decision, it wasn't that cold but was very windy so wasn't uncomfortable.

Just made a route up as I went along.

Attempted 17 controls but only found 15 of them; shame as it would have been a good result if I'd found them I think (no results yet). One of them was on a line of grouse butts where I turned R instead of L; then I knew the control was 100m behind me but decided not to go back. Would easily have had time for this (but obvs I didn't know that at the time). With no mistakes and lots of confidence there might just about have been time for all 20, but no-one got them all. Map was good other than the burnt/open bits of heather being in the wrong places - map is from 2012 so this is unsurprising!

Some time lost in the complex contour section trying to go too fast and not simplifying enough. Then the other control I didn't find was on a tiny pond in the middle of the heather; I didn't really have an AP but pretty sure I was roughly in the right place, and the GPS agrees (can't see the pond from the aerial view so don't know how close I was, even) and decided not to spend any time looking for it. Finished with 5 mins 10 left; probably enough time to have found it.

Never mind, nice place to spend an hour, and good excuse to try the local parkrun.

Shin good, right knee hurting a bit and still the extensor tendonitis painful.