Training Archive: BecksIn the 7 days ending 2007-07-06:
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Friday Jul 6 | ||
| Running 36:27 [3] | |
| ahr:154 max:170 slept:8.5 shoes: Saucony Cohesion | ||
| Run back to Sighthill to get Jeff. Very soggy but stomach and legs and everythign feeling a lot better. Very boring run though.
Czech Republic tomorrow, whoo! | ||
| Cycling 15:56 [3] | |
| ahr:133 max:157 | ||
| Speed cycle into work through the monsoon. So much better wearing lycra, just get it all wet and no pansying! | ||
Thursday Jul 5 | ||
| Running 37:48 [3] | |
| ahr:157 max:165 slept:5.0 shoes: Saucony Cohesion | ||
| Run back from Sighthill having dropped Jeff off. Hungover and stomach feeling a bit minging! Legs not so bad though! | ||
| Cycling 24:00 [2] | |
| To George Square and back. | ||
Wednesday Jul 4 | ||
| Cycling 15:51 [2] | |
| ahr:117 max:144 | ||
| Cycle to work. | ||
| Running 17:22 [3] | |
| ahr:141 max:163 | ||
| Run back from George Square to the lab - just a little tight after yesterday! | ||
| Cycling 15:19 [2] | |
| ahr:124 max:161 | ||
| To the gym. | ||
| Circuits 53:53 [3] | |
| ahr:104 max:155 shoes: Saucony Cohesion | ||
| A bit of a potter round some core stuff with Steve. Some good chat, a revisit to some old exercises and lots of balancing on those half medicine ball thingies. Good fun, nice to do something different. | ||
| Cycling 16:37 [2] | |
| ahr:105 max:142 | ||
| Back from the gym to home. | ||
Tuesday Jul 3 | ||
| Cycling 15:23 [2] | |
| Cycle into work. | ||
| Cycling 20:38 [2] | |
| Leisurely cycle home from work. | ||
| Long run 2:02:19 [4]17 km (7:12 / km) | |
| ahr:151 max:177 slept:8.0 shoes: Shiny silver integrators | ||
| Left the flat at 7pm on a gorgeous evening and just thought I'd run for as long as a I fancied - so brilliant after all the strict training plans and regimes. 50 minutes later I was at the top of Capelaw after a long climb from home and the view was fantastic! Gorgeous, all alone up in the Pentlands with shafts of sunlight just getting through the cloud as the sun made it's way down. The last half an hour back into town was a little bit of a slog on the road, the legs pretty tight, but what an awesome way to spend an evening. I feel totally refreshed and remotivated. | ||
Monday Jul 2 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Big night out last night with all the orienteering lot, a lot of fun but thought I shold take it easy today! | ||
| Cycling 40:00 [2] | |
| slept:5.0 | ||
| Nice leisurely cycle in and out of work. Got very wet on the way back, grrr. | ||
| C • Grrr 1 | ||
Sunday Jul 1 | ||
| Running 29:12 [2] | |
| ahr:138 max:162 shoes: Saucony Cohesion | ||
| Warm up for Middle race at Carse. Nice long distance to start meant my very stiff legs thanks to yesterday's lack of warm down felt pretty good by the start, stomach a little unsettled but not too bad, and got a good look at the model map. | ||
| Orienteering race 39:29 [5]***** 5.4 km (7:19 / km) +85m 6:47 / km | |
| ahr:184 max:196 spiked:16/22c slept:10.0 shoes: Saucony Cohesion | ||
| Again, a step up from the long race navigationally, with still a few "errors" but more technique based time loss as opposed to loss of place errors. Again I was disappointed with my result. I think I lost time on:
3 - aimed off on the uncrossable marshes and tried to run along them but got caught in deep marsh, had to go back out and round 6 - pulled slightly too far to the left, few seconds hesitation 9 - went out to the road but attack point was nowhere near as clear as I expected so drifted in - was just about to abandon the area and go out to a different attack point when I spotted the control 11 - wasn't sure where hit the ridge so went to the top when I didn't need to 14 - stopped slightly short 20 - getting tired, again attack point wasn't clear from the path and went slightly too far to the west. The good thing was that today felt like much more of a together race, and physically was pretty spot on. The "errors" are things I wouldn't have picked up on at say Jukola, as they were masked by the bigger ones. Still, I failed to achieve my aim this weekend and I think I need to do some work on the psycological side of preparation for races like this. | ||
| Running 10:00 [2] | |
| slept:10.0 | ||
| Warm down jog. | ||
Saturday Jun 30 | ||
| Running 30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Saucony Cohesion | ||
| Warm up for Classic race. Was difficult to get onto the model map as a lot of vegetation, and stomach not feeling good at all. Despite feeling fine when I ran yesterday there was fresh blood again afterwards, and during warming up on Saturday, so warm up was restricted to a bit of jogging and a small amount of strides. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:21:15 [5]***** 10 km (8:08 / km) +270m 7:10 / km | |
| ahr:185 max:194 spiked:20/27c slept:10.0 shoes: Saucony Cohesion | ||
| WOC Selection Classic race. Far better than yesterday in that I felt in control most of the time, and coped much better with the mistakes I made. Looking at Helen's splits I lost time on:
2, where I was clinging to the paths (although as this helped to build my confidence I'm not sure that's a bad thing) 7 (not sure how), 10 where I was on the wrong side of the open depression, relying too much on compass then contour/ground features 13 overly cautious path clinging again 18 Rough compass out to path/veg boundary brought me out far too far to the right, relocated straight away but significantly off course 19 Managed to cross a path without realising and go too far down the path running south, so ended up nearer number 20 and having to cut back across the slope 22 Path clinging again, getting tired All in all I felt relatively positive about the course, physically it felt good aside from a little struggle in the butterfly, but again was disappointed with my result. I guess the good thing was that the mistakes were all higher technique errors, as opposed to basic "I have no idea where I am errors" that I've been getting recently, and so it felt better, but there was still considerable time loss. Still, a big improvement mentally on yesterday's race. Stomach was awful on finishing, couldn't warm down as was all cramped it and fresh blood again. | ||