Friday Feb 1 |
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| I am so jinxed with flights in 2008! After the retreat from Norway disaster, Scotland is gripped by blizzards and gale force winds six hours before I'm due to fly to Gothenburg for the weekend...eep! |
Thursday Jan 31 |
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| (rest day) |
| Yey for second opinions. Mister Sporty Doctor says Nurse is being well over cautious and that I will be fine if I jog in Gothenburg this weekend, then do nothing high heart ratey next week then back to normal the week after. Awesome. |
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| C • brilliant... 2 |
Wednesday Jan 30 |
| Rubbish walking 50:00 [0] | |
| (rest day) |
| Different route in today, 5 mins faster despite dallying around the Old College with the boy. Made friends with a stray dog who followed me around until he found some tuna and sweetcorn mush on the floor which was far more interesting. Walking IS exciting! At least it was very sunny, one of those gorgeous mornings where Edinburgh looks all golden and friendly and not grey and creepy. Going to see the Sports Doc this aft who will hopefully tell me that the Nurse is being over cautious and that training isn't actually going to make me die for ever. Or something. |
Tuesday Jan 29 |
| Rubbish walking 55:00 [0] | |
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| Very long, very soggy, very boring (aside from the umbrella assault course every tiume you cross a pedestrian crossing) walk into work. But if that is all I am allowed to do, then it is better than nothing! |
Monday Jan 28 |
| Cycling 11:33 [2] | |
| ahr:130 max:148 |
| Cycle to the gym and back. |
| Strength 1:20:45 [3] | |
| ahr:94 max:144 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Last weights session in a wee while. Still getting the hang of the high pulls but loaded everything else up quite nicely.
High Pulls 30-35kg 5 x 3
BB Press front of head 25-30kg 5 x 3
Bent over row 40-47.5kg
Pull ups -30 - -23kg assisted 3 x 5
Glut ham thingie 5kg 3 x 10 |
| Running 58:46 [3] | |
| ahr:146 max:181 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Final run for a wee while with Dad. Lovely day for it, so went up Blackford to see the view, then through the Hermitage and home again. Legs a bit tight but generally feeling good. A lovely little memory to keep me going when I have to face making stiff legs move again in four weeks time! |
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| So, the good news is I am no longer pre cancerous! Yey!
The bad news is that for two weeks the most exercise I can do is walk. After that I may be able to do a light jog, but nothing that causes my core to tense very much (so no weights, boo), and nothing watery as this might cause infection. But by four weeks I will definitely be able to start training again, maybe earlier, which is just when I head to Italy for training and MOC. Going to see the Sports Doctor on Wednesday to see if he can recommend anything at all I could be doing, but it looks like time to sit back, finish the comic book and get out some DVDs! Sweet. |
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| C • Glad to hear you are ok. 2 |
Sunday Jan 27 |
| Orienteering 37:12 [3]**** | |
| ahr:135 max:169 slept:5.0 shoes: Integrators |
| A crawl up Whinny Hill with an armful of T bars after nowhere near enough sleep, to hang 8 controls for Doug. Nice to run back down burden free afterwards! Felt stupidly tired. |
Saturday Jan 26 |
| Warm up & strides 10:00 [2] | |
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| The "WHERE THE HELL IS OLEG?!" Warm up. |
| Orienteering race 44:03 [5]***** 6.3 km (7:00 / km) | |
| ahr:187 max:194 spiked:26/30c slept:6.0 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| It happened at last! The Edinburgh Street Race was awesomely planned, with huge route choice, navigational and physical challenge. I started off scrappily post minor stress that Chepls had put out the wrong first control, then relaxed into it and was navigating awesomely, spiking sites confidently, finding the smooth lines in and running below par thanks to weights the day before but still strongly. Unfortunately I managed to disqulify myself on the leg where 36 other people did the same. I stand by the way it was printed as being a poor decision by the controller, but as he only had the complete map 10 days before this is perfectly reasonable. It failed to detract from a wonderful race, and if I can figure out how to race like this from the start, I should manage some good sprints this year. |
| Ceilidh! 3:00 [3] | |
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| I'm positive a strip of the Willow counts as an interval. Whew! |