Sunday Dec 30 |
 | Running 1:35:00 [3]20 km (4:45 / km) | |
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| Run with Rob up the side of Stannington, down into rivelin, round the back of the reservoir, along the top edge of rivelin rocks and back past the Robin Hood. Very nice day to be out, bright and sunny and even quite warm. Legs tired to start with but felt good by the end. |
| Climbing 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| A couple of hours bouldering at the works with Nails and the girls. Nails is getting it back quite fast so he was pushing the boundaries a bit. A lot more physical overhangy type stuff today. |
Saturday Dec 29 |
| Running race 37:00 [5]10 km (3:42 / km) vdot: 56.9 | |
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| Sheffield Open XC in Graves Park. Not a nice course and a very windy day so you were either running uphill or into the wind, it felt a bit like the eternal uphill in that Escher painting. Very small field but ended up tussling all the way with Rick and a couple of others, finished 5th. Rob ran well for the win and Randy slacked off. Good Hallamshire dominance for the team prize. |
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [2]4 km (6:15 / km) | |
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| Jogging the course and then running around trying to keep warm waiting for the delayed start. |
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| C • Me? 3 |
| Running 40:00 [2]8 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Home with Rob and Mike. Heroic effort up Blake st by Mike to round off his century. |
Friday Dec 28 |
| Running 40:00 [2]7 km (5:43 / km) | |
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| Steady run up to Ashgill Force (big waterfall). First bit was wet and windy along a road, then back along some footpaths with the wind behind. The waterfall was in full spate, but Jen insisted on going behind it anyway... |
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| C • Forceful flow? 2 |
Thursday Dec 27 |
| Running 1:40:00 [2]17 km (5:53 / km) | |
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| Run along Hadrian's Wall from Haltwhistle to Housesteads with Jen and my Dad, joined on the last bit by my Mum. Nasty weather when we set off but was OK by the time we were running. A wind assisted effort. |
| Running 30:00 [3]6 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Evening run on the roads around Garrigill. In the rain with a small head torch, it was like an out-of-body experience since you could only see a little circle of wet tarmac floating in front of your eyes. |
Wednesday Dec 26 |
| Running 55:00 [2]9 km (6:07 / km) | |
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| Run around Strenshall Common with Jen and Steve. |
| Orienteering 20:00 [2]3 km (6:40 / km) | |
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| A bit of orienteering; a few controls from some event and then a contour only section. The contours on Strenshall are about 1m interval and this bit was mainly form lines, so it was more of a compass and pacing exercise. I was rubbish... |
| Running 50:00 [3]11 km (4:33 / km) | |
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| Run back to York from Strenshall along the Foss Way. Nice route, but I started to get pretty tired and a bit spaced. I thought I would never feel hungry again after Xmas day but I needed the bubble & squeak by the time I got home. |
Tuesday Dec 25 |
| Running 40:00 [4]10 km (4:00 / km) | |
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| Foxdahl intervals up the ings from Jen's house in York. 10 reps of 3/1, pushing hard but not killing myself. Slippy and slidy on the flood bank. Followed by a great Xmas dinner. |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [2]3 km (6:40 / km) | |
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| With Jen out to the Ings and back. |
| Running 45:00 [2]9 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Nice and easy evening run around the city walls. |
Monday Dec 24 |
| Running 1:25:00 [3]16 km (5:19 / km) | |
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| Early morning run from home before setting off to York. With Jen up through Loxley Common then down to fisheries, spoon lane, Rivelin. |