Training Log Archive: Guisborough1

Very easy on Valley Floor. -3C this morning. Brrr.

6x5mins at nowhere near Threshold........I've no idea what my HR is doing. I tried really hard. But the effort got me nowhere near my targets.

Travel Day via Painted Desert. Well worth the stop. Felt sore this morning. Definitely the right decision not to run.
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Event: Petrified Forest 2 x 4hr rogaine
 

Totally and utterly knackered. Only planned on running 2 1/2 hours, but logistics back to the car didn’t work. Ran the whole course. Loads of embarrassing mistakes and frustrating moments standing next to the control. The race was lost on 60. Huge 10 minute plus error. Then myself and JP duked it out for second.
I used to think Marathons were easy. Then at 40 I said to myself 18 miles is the sweet spot. But after today it’s 15. I felt brilliant up until then. At 28 JP caught me and I literally felt like crap. (We’d ran together but I’d planned to move away on the road crossing. As I never felt fatigued). Then at 28 I couldn’t find it and when he showed up I just capitulated. I then followed him to the last control, but he guessed left and I guessed straight. Unbelievably I was laughing like a Trump fan with a shit hat on and he was crying like a Gypsy with a mortgage. That luck never happens to me.
The positive was, it was a really beautiful long run and chatting to JP at the end was good (although I felt awful and ended up dancing to the honeypot). Negatives.....I’m not running tomorrow. That was way beyond my limits. I’m concerned my compass my be lying like a rug. I felt in the open terrain I was right on line and I’d consistently ended up being 150m off to the left. But how do I prove that? It’s probably just me. Great place, worth the visit. And Kendal and Eadie loved the geology. It took everything to stop them stealing everything out the park. It cost me $30 in rocks at the gift shop.
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Easy on Valley Floor.
I finished painting!!!!

Sods Law.....I enter the Gunstock event last minute and my dad breaks his femur mountain biking. Maybe going home instead. Got to see how the op goes before I make a decision on next week.

Entered The Masters event. Had no intention of doing this even before I was mentally scarred by BAOC. But this is the best I've felt for years even if the watch and the times put in tell me totally different. No niggles at all. So when Paw Paw said "go, I'll take care of the kids" I've entered. Even if it's not a good experience I can visit my mate in Boston.

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Easy on valley floor. HR still crazy. Chilly -2C when I started. But nothing compared to tomorrow........

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HR is really odd here. Easy running and HR hits the 170's. Push it and it goes into the correct-ish zone.
This run was supposed to be Zone 2, Zone 4, Zone 2. Actual.....Zone 2, Zone 3, Zone 4/5?? I really pushed valley floor. I was totally knackered and never approached 161 BPM until the last 3 secs. Then on the 15 minute cool down I was close to 180 BPM. Just don't get it.
Felt great despite the effort put in to not hit the targets asked.

Rather than be a total loser, (I ran out of paint today) I dug out the TRX from the cellar. Didn't do anything that'll give me DOMS tomorrow though.
Did take a light stroll with my father-in-law this morning from Ames HydroPlant (Tesla's first AC electric power plant in the world) up to the Sunshine Mtn. East Ridge Trailhead. I've got an eye on running this next week, but conditions must be perfect. The summit is supposed to be very sketchy.