Training Log Archive: Psuba

Event: Poole Town Wessex Night League
 

Collecting controls on the cool down

Poole Town Night Race, 1 hour score.

Not the best performance again. Yesterdays intervals still felt and so I have struggled to keep the pace up. Lots of hesitations - not quite sure if it was "real" hesitation or just wouldn't feel like pushing.

Further, I tried a different way of carrying the headlamp battery - as a result I broke its clip (yay) and struggled with the connection all the way through, had to reconnect a number of times. Next time I need to use tape as prep!

Dale in the end collected the controls 4 minutes faster than me, about 40 sec of that would have been my looking for the misplaced control which he stumbled across by mistake and I couldn't find, the rest really is all of the above.

Event: TVOC Urban Event
 

14x 400m intervals, 2 min off. Aiming for 3:30m tempo in the intervals.

Managed 3:17, 23,16,32,23,25,30,32,25,34,33,35,29,54 - although the last interval had a sharp bend in it where I had to slow down considerably in the wet conditions so probably does not count.

Just got out in the window without the rain - was miserable before and again after (decided not to go to the TVOC event with 4.5 h travel for a 35 minute run in the rain). Everything was wet though.

I did feel the results of the cold and lack of training in the middle, really struggled from about half way through. Should be getting back to training now.

Event: New Years Day Score
 

SARUM New Years score at Copehill Down.

Great event in the secret village and around. Weather quite rubbish with winds and rain towards the end.
As usual with score, I got the strategy wrong and spent way too much time out in the fields - got almost all controls but did not have enough time to cover the village in the end. Should have got the points for the village first then gone out as far as I could!

Running wise it was OK considering I am still coming out from the cold. Saw a group of deers out in the open running around me (us) for a while.

Long run through Kings Park, Queens Park, Meyrick Park, through the upper/lower gardens and then the promenade from Bournemouth Pier to Boscombe Pier and Fishermans walk.

Very windy but the sun was out. Lots of people about. Wanted to see how I cope with a longer exercise - still a bit of cold lingering so not pushing uphills or anything. Did try a bit of a scenic part of Meyrick Park through trails and some forest so slowed down there a bit.

Just noticed that I am ranked #1 in my club on the British Orienteering ranking list. Not sure if I should be glad or not - everything is relative. I am sure as hell not satisfied with most of my performances.

First day back in Britain, and cold is starting to subside so I thought I'll hazard a run to see what it does to my cold. Still coughing etc, will see tomorrow if this helped or got it worse. Duly noted that I left my Garmin HRM somewhere, probably in Budapest through all the various packing of things between bags. Great.

Due to lack of recent training and cold I took an easy one today, except for trying for about 90% effort for a section back from Bournemouth to Boscombe Pier on the Promenade. I did this with about 4:15 pace which is not bad considering. The promenade is quite overblown with sand so felt almost like a trail run there. They fixed the lights on the Fishermans walk which will be good for HIIT later.