Training Log Archive: Magic

Event: British Elite Sprint Champs
 

Warm up along the path through the woods and a bit in the woods themselves – a lot of blue appeared to be missing from the map. Stiff from yesterday.

BEOC Sprint, Astley Village, Chorley. A very enjoyable course around a housing complex, no dead ends so nothing to catch you out but plenty of fast thinking needed. I ran reasonably well but never really got moving and the hill to the last control was the only bit I found hard work. Miles of qualifying for the A final but I’ve never managed that even when not recovering from a fractured spine/back/shoulder.
Great weather, assembly area and run-in, café and museum and spectator control made it an easy place to the 4 hours between the heats and B final.

Back along the path with Jonny G to warm down.

Jog to the start with Faye and then a little messing around while there.

BEOC Sprint, Chorley Town, B final. Started well down the order due to my lethargicness this morning so went out with the ambition of actually running hard to see how my body would react. A quick look at the map in the two minute box was enough to work out where no. 1 was and that it was a lot easier than this morning. Still managed to run past no 1 though, but apart from that my only real mistakes were getting caught on the wrong side of bushes on 13 and 14 and a couple of 45/55 route choices that I got wrong. Was dead by the spectator and only just managed to free myself from the bog at the penultimate control in order to finish. Fun but disappointing compared to this morning and my body is well short of speed.

Warm down via the river to return the mud that I had accumulated during the course.