Thursday Jul 31 |
 | Biking 25:00 [1] | |
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| into work
not looking forward to biking home since it's been pouring all morning. |
| Biking 25:00 [1] | |
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| home, in a reasonably dry spell though it was soooo muggy it may as well have been raining |
| Running intervals 30:00 [5] | |
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| 25 mins paarlauf with Bryn and then sprints in a team with Rob in Hillsborough Park with a good group from Hallamshire. |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [3] | |
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| warm up jog to the club house and then round hillsborough stadium and to the park, warm down straight home |
Wednesday Jul 30 |
| Biking 50:00 [1] | |
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| to work and back |
Tuesday Jul 29 |
| Running 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| run home from work and then a quick tour of walkley/crookes/bole hill with Piret and Bryn. |
Monday Jul 28 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| travelling
currently on the X2000 from Sundsvall to Arlanda then flying home!
Beautiful train BUT it's already 15 mins late departing - didn't think that happened over here?? |
Sunday Jul 27 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| a real rest day! some swimming in the sea but mainly chilling out at a friend's sommarstuga. |
Saturday Jul 26 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| mainly shopping in sundsvall, some swimming in the sea! |
Friday Jul 25 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| getting a lift to Sundsvall, didn't run day 5 as I would have had to start so late. Shame as it looked good but then it was really hot! |
Thursday Jul 24 |
| Orienteering race 42:30 [5] | |
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| O ringen day 4, feeling much better.
a loooooong time behind Jenny Johansson...
Cool to orienteer on the fjalls but it was kind of a bit similar to an English moorland with lower heather! |
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
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| jogging to the chairlift with James Hargreaves and a little bit of warming up at the top. No warm down again but I'm not running tomorrow just a 6 hr car journey so no worries!?
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Wednesday Jul 23 |
| Running warm up/down 1:00:00 [2] | |
| (sick) |
| jog to start and to number one and nearly to two and then back along the whole route to the start explaining to most of the Brits on the way that I had to retire because I was ill.... (poorly all night, thought I might be OK to run but not at all)
rubbish |
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| C • boooo 1 |
Tuesday Jul 22 |
| Orienteering race 37:20 [5] | |
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| day 2 of D21E took it carefully today - a bit over cautious perhaps but didn't make any big mistakes. Ended up 5 mins down though still. |
| Running warm up/down 40:00 [2] | |
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| To the start and a bit afterwards today as my back was sore this morning... |
Monday Jul 21 |
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| Event: Oringen 2008
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| Orienteering race 1:20:00 [5] | |
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| O ringen D21E day 1
Not a great run, started OK but then missed the impossible no.9 and let that put me off for 10 and 11... a little bit scrappy at the start too but would have been happy without 9 and 11...
32nd place and a looong time behind the leaders. |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [2] | |
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| jogging to the start, no warm down... silly I know |
Sunday Jul 20 |
| Orienteering 25:00 [3] | |
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| O ringen training with Jo, managed to find a pause in the rainstorms that Rob ran in! Feeling inspired after the GB Woc relay victory but unfortunately I don't seem to have got any quicker or better at orienteering... |
Friday Jul 18 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| tidying, cleaning, returning library books etc before setting off for O ringen at 4.30pm... |
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| C • have a good journey 3 |
Thursday Jul 17 |
| Running 30:00 [2] | |
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| jog home from work |
Wednesday Jul 16 |
| Biking 45:00 [1] | |
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| work and back
had really bad nights sleep the last 2 nights - woken up with nightmares at 4am... weird! |
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| C • Nightmares 1 |
Tuesday Jul 15 |
| Running 25:00 [5] | |
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| track session, felt rubbish!
same as 2 weeks ago with 4min outside of the track then 15sec recovery before a 300m sprint times two
then some shuttles
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| Running warm up/down 25:00 [3] | |
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| laps before and after, drills |
Monday Jul 14 |
| Biking 45:00 [1] | |
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| biked to work and back, bumped into Rob running to work on the way. |
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| C • skal vi 2 |
Sunday Jul 13 |
| Note | |
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| Not really a rest day but no training.
Helped at Cliffhanger from 10am to 18.30 pm - hundreds and hundreds of kids had a go!! Until 1ish it was just me and my mum helping but then Mike came along and then Martin and then a few more people thank goodness. Absolutely manic!!! |
Saturday Jul 12 |
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| Event: Cliffhanger Ultrasprint
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| Orienteering race 10:00 [5] | |
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| Garmin Ultrasprint qualifier at Cliffhanger. My time of 10.09 would have put me in the A final had I not hung all the controls!! |
| Running warm up/down 40:00 [2] | |
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| warm up/down and some jogging back and forth all day |
| Note | |
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| Helped at Cliffhanger from 9am to 6.30pm! Great to see lots of kids having a go... |
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| C • Great event 6 |
Friday Jul 11 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| spent two and a half hours setting up the Cliffhanger Ultrasprint in Millhouses Park. Just got the SI units to put out in the morning now...
Thankfully Marcus, Fionne, Colin and Pete did all the heavy lifting!
Think it should be good, my top tip is O shoes! |
Thursday Jul 10 |
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| Event: WOC 2008
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| Biking 45:00 [1] | |
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| work and back |
Wednesday Jul 9 |
| Biking 25:00 [1] | |
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| into work, seemed to take me longer. |
| Biking 20:00 [1] | |
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| and home |
Tuesday Jul 8 |
| Biking 25:00 [1] | |
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| Bike to work, pretty tough route now with the extra hill. Felt hard after a fell race. |
| Biking 20:00 [1] | |
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| and home again, quicker! |
Monday Jul 7 |
| Running race 40:00 [5] | |
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| hathersage fell race, can't seem to do this race without having to stop with tummy ache and getting a really bad blister on the base of my heel!
Finished 4th. nice to see Channah back winning.
Actual time 39.19 over a minute down on my record which got well and truly thrashed by the leading ladies (36ish?) |
| Running 15:00 [3] | |
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| warm up |
Saturday Jul 5 |
| Running intervals 50:00 [4] | |
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| Fartlek round Longshaw with Channah and Adam whilst Kelly and Ian went for a run and shouted what we should do at us.
Managed to find a non-rainy spell. |
Friday Jul 4 |
| Orienteering 25:00 [4] | |
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| 2 sprints round millhouses park (ultrasprint recce). Quite easy without the labyrinth!! but rest assured it won't be on the day...
Head to head with Oli which was nice because after all love does make orienteering easier. |
Thursday Jul 3 |
| Running 30:00 [3] | |
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| run home from work |
Tuesday Jul 1 |
| Running 15:00 [1] | |
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| very slow jog down to work trying not to sweat! |
| Running 30:00 [3] | |
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| running to track - further from the new place |
| Running intervals 35:00 [5] | |
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| 2 x 4min hard (off track, same distance each rep) then 15 sec recovery before a 300m very hard (57 then 59 secs) 3 mins 30 between sets
Then 9 x 200m in a trilauf with Liz S and Ruth
running 31-34 secs for the short 200 and 38 for the long one!! So an average of 36 seconds.
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| Running 20:00 [3] | |
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| strides and drills and (not very much at all) warming down |