Sunday Feb 11 |
 | Orienteering race 55:00 [5]*** 8 km (6:52 / km) | |
| spiked:14/16c |
| Orienteering at Lindhop near Chatsworth. They haven't used this area for 30 years - I can understand why. I got in quite a bad mood running uphill through brambles on the way from 1-2 and the rest of the course didn't exactly cheer me up. Oh well, you got to take the good with the bad, managed to push it reasonably hard on the hills and hamstring felt OK. My biggest mistake was falling onto a control and knocking the SI Unit off - it bounced down a steep slippery slope into some brambles and I had to follow it and fix it back on. |
| Running 25:00 [2]4 km (6:15 / km) | |
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| Warm up and warm down for O event, bit worried about sore hamstring... |
Saturday Feb 10 |
| Running 1:55:00 [3]20 km (5:45 / km) | |
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| Run from Three Merry Lads with Mike in the snow, varying from proper knee deep stuff higher up to wet slush down in Hathersage. Long uphill slog from Hathersage fighting for every slippery footstep. Hamstrings tired and sore from last night but otherwise feeling pretty good. |
Friday Feb 9 |
| Weights 40:00 [3] | |
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| 30 mins of weights then 10 of circuits in the uni gym. Added a bit of weight today, it feels good to use a bigger dumbell so that I don't look like such a weakling compared to all the buff iron-pumpers around me. |
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| C • they've got silly muscles but... 6 |
| Running 35:00 [2]6 km (5:50 / km) | |
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| Run into gym via Rob's house and back |
| Running (Hill Reps) 30:00 [5]5 km (6:00 / km) | |
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| Spirals (pyramid hill session on roads). It was lightly sleeting down at my house, I run about 100m up hill and it's a full-on blizzard so the session was a lot more slippery than normal. You might have thought that snow and ice might make drivers think twice before using the second steepest hill in Sheffield as a rat run in these conditions, but you'd be wrong. Splits were 8x15 secs bounds on Bate Street to warm up, then: 33, 37, 42, 49, 56, 56, 49, 41, 36, 32 - positive splits on the way back up. |
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| C • positive splits 11 |
| Running 30:00 [2]6 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Run uphill all the way to the start of Spirals tha=en a jog back down via Bolehill Park. Grey, cold, icy and miserable. Bring on Portugal. |
Thursday Feb 8 |
| Running 40:00 [1]7 km (5:43 / km) | |
| (rest day) |
| Took a much needed rest today. Short jog with Jenny up Loxley Valley in wet snow. |
Wednesday Feb 7 |
| Running (Terrain run) 1:55:00 [2]** 17 km (6:46 / km) | |
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| Long run with Rob around Burbage, Blacka and Longshaw on a crisp, sunny morning. Sort of orienteering but really a straightforward terrain run with a map, running Neil's Long O from a couple of years back. Feeling generally tired this morning, so the pace was pretty steady. Some really tough heather and a few half-frozen marshes. Nice. |
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| C • I want to be out in the sun! 2 |
Tuesday Feb 6 |
| Running 25:00 [1]4 km (6:15 / km) | |
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| Easy morning jog to loosen legs up ready for this evening's pain. |
| Track session 40:00 [5]8 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Track session, 5x500, 5x400, 5x300, 5x200 (recovery 55,50,45,40). Very cold night so difficult to warm up, but felt pretty good even at the end, nice to do a 'downhill' session like this. Average times were 89, 71, 51, 32.5. Jogging inbetween reps. Some strides and drills to warm up. |
| Running 55:00 [2]10 km (5:30 / km) | |
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| Run to track and back with Rob Mike and Phil. |
Monday Feb 5 |
| Weights 40:00 [3] | |
| (rest day) |
| Free weights and circuits. No extra weight today, legs and muscles tired from the weekend. |
| Running 30:00 [1]6 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Easy jog into the gym and back home afterwards. |