Friday Feb 29 |
 | Warm up & strides 19:43 [3] | |
| ahr:123 max:157 shoes: Integrators |
| Warm up and rubbish strides before Classic Distance as stomach was poor. |
| Orienteering 1:09:55 [3]***** 7.2 km (9:43 / km) | |
| ahr:178 max:189 spiked:6/19c shoes: Integrators |
| Bleurgh. WRE Classic at Pineta Di Lenne. Was quite excited after yesterday's beautiful forest, but as with typical mediterranean areas most of the race was in thick, spiky bushy stuff and really hard going. My stomach was JK last year style uncomfortable and my legs felt like lead. I had no fight in me at all and so totally let the area beat me - I didn't make anything I would actually class as a proper mistake but I wasted a huge amount of time faffing and hesitating and going round things I should have been shoving through. Really disappointing, the worst race I've had in a long time. |
Thursday Feb 28 |
| Orienteering 22:44 [5]***** 2.6 km (8:45 / km) | |
| ahr:187 max:199 spiked:19/22c shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| Sprint race in Matera. Had a really awesome second half of the race but unfortunately the race was cut off halfway,as the map exchange wasn;t actually there when some of the girls got to it. So then I dropped down the results loads due to a poor route choice early on. Boo. Felt in control and flowing well, even if legs felt awful! |
| Warm up & strides 23:56 [2] | |
| ahr:147 max:170 |
| Warm up and down around the sprint. |
| Orienteering 43:27 [3]*** | |
| ahr:169 max:183 spiked:13/16c shoes: Integrators |
| Training on Pineta di Chiatona - nice flow, legs tired but feeling strong and planning ahead, taking good lines. Beautiful area. |
Wednesday Feb 27 |
| Orienteering 30:46 [3]***** | |
| ahr:164 max:187 spiked:12/14c shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| "sprint" around Matera. Unfortunatelty we just had rubbish computer JPEG printed maps that were tiny and clear or enlarged and blurry. I went for tiny and clear so I could see the control sites but not read the map on the move at all - so not much of a sprint! Amazing venue! |
Tuesday Feb 26 |
| Long run 1:17:10 [4] | |
| ahr:168 max:184 shoes: Integrators |
| Stop starty run the illegal way up Vesuvius, having to hide from the Carabinieri in the forest every once in a while! |
| Running 38:53 [3] | |
| ahr:158 max:180 shoes: Integrators |
| Run back down Vesuvius. |
Monday Feb 25 |
| Orienteering 49:29 [3]**** | |
| ahr:167 max:192 spiked:9/12c shoes: Integrators |
| Warm up O in the mountains somewhere south west of Rome. Lovely area but felt physically shocking and so jut did the short version of the course. |
Sunday Feb 24 |
| Running 1:15:28 [3]** | |
| ahr:156 max:181 rhr:44 slept:10.0 shoes: Blue Saucony Grid |
| What a session! Arrived in Rome in the gorgeous sunshine with about three hours of daylight remaining (and we all know about Italian men after dark) so I got on my kit and set off for a sightseeing run around town. Took in the large park to the north of all the attractions, then down to the roman ruins around the Collesseum, up to the Patheon, through a few pizazzas and ending up in front of Vatican City. An amazing place with so many things to look at - will have to spend more time here (and with company!) at some point in the not too distant future. |
Saturday Feb 23 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| A huge amount of travelling that began with leaving edinburgh at 2am! Was tired and still feeling a bit sniffly so stuck to walking around Pisa ' walked for a good 4 hours or so and it was luverly in the early spring sunshine. |