Friday Apr 27 |
 | Cycling 18:29 [3] | |
| ahr:143 max:173 |
| Cycle back home, feeling pretty good! |
| Running 19:32 [3] | |
| ahr:165 max:188 slept:8.0 shoes: Saucony Cohesion |
| Run into work, legs a bit stiff but generally feeling good and striding out. |
| Running 23:02 [3] | |
| ahr:165 max:187 slept:8.0 shoes: Saucony Cohesion |
| Run back from work an hour or so later. Feeling much looser and stronger despite most of the way back being uphill. |
Thursday Apr 26 |
| Cycling 18:36 [3] | |
| ahr:124 max:155 rhr:51 slept:8.0 |
| Heart rate still high in the morning but felt much better during the day, second day of hayfever tablets. Heart rate while cycling pretty normal, high on the hill up to the cycle path. |
| Running 48:37 [4]9 km (5:24 / km) | |
| ahr:171 max:196 rhr:51 slept:8.0 shoes: Saucony Cohesion |
| Run to see how I felt and if it was worth going to Sweden this weekend. Actually felt absolutely fine after the first couple of minutes. Ran hard then 10 mins from the end did 2 two minute efforts and was pushing hard running well and heart rate went to 196, which is about usual for that stuff. Will do another similar short thing tomorrow, though generally easier with a few strides and a couple more efforts. |
Wednesday Apr 25 |
| Cycling 40:00 [3] | |
| rhr:51 slept:9.0 |
| To work and back, felt fine when cycling, still not great when sitting around though. |
Tuesday Apr 24 |
| Note | |
| rhr:47 slept:8.0 (rest day) |
| Still not feeling ill exactly but not 100%. Will rest for another day. |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| Could it be hayfever?! I just realised today that this is exactly how I felt in the run up to Tio Mila last year, when the sun had started shining and everything was flowering. My sister gets it too. Maybe worth taking a few antihistamines this week and seeing if they do anything. |
Monday Apr 23 |
| Cycling 35:00 [1] | |
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| a very slow cycle to Newington and back to see BARR. |
Sunday Apr 22 |
| Running 14:05 [2] | |
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| Warm up before blue course. |
| Orienteering 1:08:40 [4]*** 6 km (11:27 / km) +235m 9:34 / km | |
| ahr:181 max:198 spiked:12/14c rhr:46 slept:8.5 shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Well, it's a long time since I enjoyed a course as little as I enjoyed today's course at Mill of Fortune! I got all excited as it was so old school, master maps, control cards and pin punches, but then pah. The area had some nice bits but the frankly quite rubbish planning skirted most of them, for some reason avoiding short legs in the technical stuff in favour of long slogs on nasty slopes. I had very little motivation, hardly any concentration, and as a consequence made two very silly mistakes that cost me a long time. Physically feeling alright, not great, but much better than I have since the JK. Pulse still quite high considering how slowly I was moving a lot of the time - there was a lot of climb though I guess.
Rubbish. But afterwards I saw a gopher, and he made it all better:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/faintgirl/468368904/ |
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| C • Nice gopher! 4 |
Saturday Apr 21 |
| Cycling 43:22 [2] | |
| ahr:124 max:160 rhr:46 slept:12.0 |
| Cycle up to Bonaly and back. Had watch set at 70% max and managed to stick to it apart from the final bit of the hill. |
| Orienteering 29:00 [3]**** | |
| ahr:152 max:183 spiked:7/7c rhr:46 slept:12.0 shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Felt much better today so went to Bonaly. Pulse high going up the hills so walked them, but got fed up and didn;t do the whole course (210m climb in 3.5km!). Bonaly is gorgeous in the sunshine! Great views and stuff. Not feeling 100% but no worse than I did a lot of the time in Sweden. Now I've got back and had some food feel almost human again. Another early night and long sleep and should be cracking. |