Sunday May 11 |
 | Orienteering race 2:06:00 [3] 9.8 km (12:51 / km) +330m 11:00 / km | |
| shoes: Mudroc 290 |
| SOL2 at Touch. Very tired after being out for last 5 days. Started very stiff & slow. Aim was to get the map right and look ahead to next control. Only partially achieved this. Found the 1:15000 quite tough with a lot of features that would normally be mapped not shown. Hard a burst of energy on the open moorland when started to move reasonably well. Found the last bit in the forest tough and made a dreadful error on the second last control where totally lost concentration. Still need to stay closer to the map in the tough terrain. |
Saturday May 10 |
| Orienteering race 30:37 [3]** 3 km (10:12 / km) +155m 8:07 / km | |
| 23c shoes: Asics Gel Mojave |
| Scottish Sprint Champs - excellent course, location. Too many mistakes. Very stupid error on 6 lost about 2 minutes running down a blind alley. Lost around 1 minute on 14 when brain stopped functioning! Then 16 went down route to a locked gate which lost 1 minute. Wasn't running particularly fast today either. |
Friday May 9 |
| Cycling 2:54:00 [2] 36.35 km (4:47 / km) | |
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| Cycle along the canal to Balerno and then to Harlaw, through Pentlands to Flotterstone and home. |
Thursday May 8 |
| Hill Walking 4:30:00 [3] 10.0 mi (27:00 / mi) +1000m 12:48 / km | |
| shoes: Mudroc 290 |
| Bagged two munros. Very rough guess of distances. Feeling quite tired but made reasonably rapid progress. Ran in parts on the way back. |
Wednesday May 7 |
| Orienteering 55:00 [3] 5.5 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Mudroc 290 |
| Did the Score course round Dreghorn Barracks and Covenanters Wood. Main challenge was working out ways in and out of the fenced off barracks. Didn't make a very good job of it. Lovely evening though. |
Tuesday May 6 |
| Running 6:54 [5] 1.0 mi (6:53 / mi) | |
| ahr:172 max:178 shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 7 |
| Went for a 1 mile run round the Meadows to see if I could hit 7 minute pace. Pushed consistently round with HR above 170 most of the way and hitting max at the end. Just came in under at 6.54. 2 miles at that pace looks a big ask! |
Monday May 5 |
| Running 25:00 [5] 3.12 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
| ahr:162 max:167 shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS 7 |
| Tried a threshold run round bits of Meadows and Old Town. My HR Max is 179 and min is 46 so I reckon I'm meant to do a threshold run in the 80-90 range of 152 - 166 HR. Set off at a good pace with HR quickly hitting top of range at which point eased off slightly. Generally had to kept pushing the pace along to keep the HR at the top end of the range. Occasionally went above 166 and had to ease off. Had aimed to do 30 minutes but after 25 started to feel I'd had enough. Legs felt pretty tired afterwards - they felt worse on the slow jog home than when running fast. Modest sweat but didn't feel too bad afterwards.
Average HR over the 25 mins was 162.
Is this about right for a threshold run ? |