Friday Aug 31 |
 | Road bike 1:08:00 [2] | |
| rhr:42 slept:7.5 weight:72kg |
| Cycle up the A57 and back to Stannington with Johny and Aislinn. Nasty afternoon, windy with a biy of wet thrown in. Very easy (pace) up the hill and very easy (effort) coming back, added a few hills to put a bit of effort in. |
Thursday Aug 30 |
| Trail run 1:33:15 [2] | |
| rhr:42 slept:6.0 shoes: Asics Torana |
| Longish run with Boyzone out along Rivelin and back down Porter. Still felt right pants but did manage to keep going and felt a bit more cherry towards the end.
Wore my HRM in bed for the first time in 6 years last night, was very surprised to see it settle straight down to 40 when I was reading and then to 38 when I lay down. Didn't record it over night but would be surprised if it went any lower. 42 first thing in the morning. Also had a rubbish nights sleep. |
Wednesday Aug 29 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| As I felt so awful yesterday though that a rest would be a good idea. |
Tuesday Aug 28 |
| Trail run 59:40 [2] | |
| rhr:42 slept:7.5 weight:72kg shoes: Asics Torana |
| New route around Totley Moor with Boyzone. Nice area and some nice trails but felt right pants, especially on anything resembling an incline. Body just didn't want to join the fun today. |
Monday Aug 27 |
| Trail run 45:10 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics Torana |
| Back to the usual running routes after weeks away, nothing much changed- though the council do seam to be busy repairing all the bridleways, wonder if they'll do the footpaths next?
Short loop up Rivelin, nice afternoon and loads of people out, nice but still not Sweden. Unsurprisingly felt a little tired, especially on the ups. |
| Strength exercises 17:00 [3] | |
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Sunday Aug 26 |
| Orienteering race 38:00 [5] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp, Gothenburg. Short (very) classic race, very tired legs from a good hard week of terrain running. Marshes still a killer but ran ok once I warmed up after a tough and long first leg. Missed a vital saddle right at the start of the leg (as did most others) so adjusted and took a wide route choice. It was rubbish and lost 2 and a half minutes to Doug who beat me by 90 seconds to prevent me getting the yellow jersey at all this year. Devastated... |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
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Saturday Aug 25 |
| Orienteering race 33:50 [5] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp Gothenburg. Middle Tour champs at local O event. Orienteered quite smoothly but got some bad running in places and legs were tired, happy with race but Doug still got me by 30 seconds. Just have to get fitter! |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
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| Orienteering 15:00 [4] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp Gothenburg. Short fun realy, took over from John when he bashed his knee on a rock. Steep and bushy and not a great map - no warm up as I wasn't expecting to run. Fun though. |
Friday Aug 24 |
| Orienteering race 25:30 [5]3.15 km (8:06 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp, Ojersjo, Gothenburg. Middle qual training. Mass start with the boys - Dave, Doug, Hector and John. Lost about 45 seconds at number one and ran on my own for most of it, caught John near the end and got him on the run in when he fell in a bog :) Doug went propperly AWOL. |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
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| Orienteering 40:00 [3] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp, Getryggen, Gothenburg. Smashing area, ran a few controls on my own before picking up a few of the girls, let them get ahead and then caught Anne again and shadowed her to the finish. |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 5:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
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Thursday Aug 23 |
| Orienteering 25:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Inov8 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp, Getryggen, Gothenburg. Sprint training. Collected controls. Crap map, not to ISSOM standard and normal symbols. last control in school playground during break time - you'd never be allowed to do that in the UK. |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Inov8 |
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| Orienteering race 24:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Inov8 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp, Gothenburg. Sprint training. Afternoon race, this time the first two controls were in school playgrounds! Not a very exciting course, some lovely bits of forest but it was basicially a left and right route choice job. Got caught by Doug but managed to elbow him out of thw way at the finish :) Shoes lethal on wet rock. |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Inov8 |
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| Orienteering 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp Gothenburg. Supersprint. Mapped a small section of forest at 1:1000 and had a knock out competition. Lots of fun to watch (no boundaries to the map...) Doug and Hazel the victors though Hazel had the faster time... (although both Dave and John were faster in the B final). |
Wednesday Aug 22 |
| Track race 10:32 [5]3 km (3:31 / km) vdot: 55.5 | |
| shoes: Asics Torana |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp Gothenburg. 3km time trail.
First time on a track since last summer, ran a pb by 56 seconds (says mnore about how rubbish I was last year than how quick I am now). Quite happy with the run very windy and it strted to spit during the run - could get it down further if I wanted...
Splits:
0.39 (200m)
1.24
1.24
1.23
1.23
1.27
1.26
1.23 |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Asics Torana |
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Tuesday Aug 21 |
| Orienteering race 25:00 [5] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp, Gothenburg. Afternnon session. Middle distance practice. Much faster than past few days though it didn?t so from the map. Ran fairly rapidly and was happy with run ? took an experimental route choice on one leg and lost quite a bit of time, finished 30 seconds down on Doug. |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 5:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
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| Orienteering 1:05:00 [3] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp, Sisjon, Gothenburg. Classic practice. Series of legs with a break between every few. Some bitching marshes and dead nice terrain in places. Shadowed John ? he didn?t take well to the change of terrain between the open forest and the rough. |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
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Monday Aug 20 |
| Orienteering 39:00 [4] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp, Getryggen, Gothenburg. Classic training. Smashing are, loved it, did a mixture of shadowing legs and some on my own, rough and tough with wet marshes and long grass. Started off with dead legs and a sore back but once warmed up all was good. |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
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| Orienteering 50:00 [4] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp, Partille, Gothenburg. Classic training. Nice area, typicially rough and tough and technical. Shadowed Hector and Doug - was hanging on in places but kept up. |
Sunday Aug 19 |
| Orienteering race 1:05:00 [5] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp, Bunketorp, Gothenburg. Local race. Very tough, very wet and very nice. Never got out of third gear but orienteered smoothly for first time in Sweden this year. Beat all the boys. |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 12:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
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| Orienteering 50:00 [3] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp, Rannerbergen, Gothenburg. Like it here, a great area, quite flat, lots of marshes (tough) and small hills (quite fast). Shadowed John and then Dave. |
Saturday Aug 18 |
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| Event: WOC 2007
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| Orienteering 40:00 [3] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| GB Junior Squad pre JWOC training camp, Gothenburg. Intro run and to losen up after travel in the forest around the club hut where we're styaying for the week. Very thick in places and quite tough. I like it here. |
Friday Aug 17 |
| Note | |
| (injured) |
| Have decided to lgive it another days rest, a bit of stretching and I should be all fixed for Sundays race in Gothenburg...
Best of luck to everyone going to WOC |
Thursday Aug 16 |
| Note | |
| (injured) |
| Nearly, may try a jog again tomorrow. Not at all aore to walk now but I can still feel it. |
Wednesday Aug 15 |
| Trail run 35:00 [1] | |
| (injured) shoes: Asics Torana |
| Very slow jog around Stirling University with FVO. Could always feel my calf and stretched it a lot, however, feels much the same now, so no worse. |
| Note | |
| (injured) |
| Resting calf. |
Monday Aug 13 |
| Note | |
| (injured) |
| Right calf still knackered, though not as sore as yesterday. |
Sunday Aug 12 |
| Note | |
| (injured) (rest day) |
| Right calf causing quite a bit of grief, less sore than last night but still far to sore to do anything on. |
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A - Splits |
Saturday Aug 11 |
| Orienteering race 1:04:00 [5]10 km (6:24 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| Scottish 6 day, Day 6. Anagach, good steady run with no real errors, reverse chasing start but never saw anyone. Ended up 11th for the week, was hoping for a top ten but with the cold I'm happy enough. Right calg gave up with about a km to do, very sore afterwards, will have to rest. |
| Warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
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Friday Aug 10 |
| Orienteering race 38:00 [5]5 km (7:36 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| Scottish 6 days, Day 5. Camerory. New area, quite rough in places, late start at last but didn't take advantage - stupid mistake near the end, though many others lost more time, steep and stony and not great planning. Had quite a bit of energy for most of the run, though week on hills. |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
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Thursday Aug 9 |
| Orienteering race 1:03:00 [5]9.6 km (6:34 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| Scottish 6 day, Day 4 Culbin. Flattest day of the week, but still hard work with sore high heather. Chasing start though ran the whole thing aside from one leg on my own. Clean enough but still fairly tired from the long race. |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
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Wednesday Aug 8 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| Scottish 6 days, rest day. Helped Janine with Mtbo event and had watched the sprint race. Spent from yesterday so no exercise. |
Tuesday Aug 7 |
| Orienteering race 1:38:00 [5]14 km (7:00 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| Scottish 6 day, Day 3 Inshriach West. Long race, quite an early start and ran the whole race alone, hardly seeing anyone. One big 3 minute mistake in a featureless area near the end runined a clean run. Was getting tired and feet were sore from the stoney ground, but had fun. Map was truely awful, everything on it was either wrong or inconsistent - paths, rides, vegetation and especially contours, should be better for a 6 day. |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 12:00 [3] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
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Monday Aug 6 |
| Orienteering race 38:00 [5]5.1 km (7:27 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| Scottish 6 day, Day 2 Ballavil. Another early start and a very rough first few controls where I dropped a minute or two to later starters. Otherwise quite clean but not the most inspiring course and quite steep. Still feeling quite rough from the cold but getting better. |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 8:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
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Sunday Aug 5 |
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| Event: Scottish 6-Days
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| Orienteering race 1:09:00 [5]9.6 km (7:11 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
| Scottish 6 day, Day 1 Alvie. Very start and a steep rough hill to get things started. Ran a mostly clean race aside from a three minute mistake caused when I lost contact due to opening my map to check codes as information had run out of lose copies of the discritpions. Not to much bracken bashing for an early start but feeling awful with the cold that I picked up yesterday. |
| Warm up/down warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon 07 |
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Saturday Aug 4 |
| Note | |
| (sick) |
| Travel up to Speyside for the Scottish 6 day. Picked up a cold last night and not a happy camper today. |
Friday Aug 3 |
| Note | |
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| Mad day running around Sheffield getting ready for the 6 day next week. Did manage a slow 90 minute walk with JY though. |
Thursday Aug 2 |
| Note | |
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| Travelling back from Slovenia, all day on trains, planes and cars. Great holiday though. |
Wednesday Aug 1 |
| walk 1:15:00 [1] | |
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| Quick walk up a hill in the Slovenian mountains with Deirdre and Faye, cheated most of the way as we got a cable car up for most of the climb. Longer than we were planning but it was so beautiful that we had to make the summit. |