Sunday Jul 6 |
 | Running tempo 1:37:00 [3]24 km (4:02 / km) | |
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| So I guess the vaguely warm period Edinburgh had a couple of months ago was what is traditionally known as "summer". It's cold and it's pishing down. Good for running in though.
Along the canal, up the Water of Leith, down the Water of Leith, along the canal.
Saw a path signed to the Pentlands, might have to explore that next weekend. On another note, the lift bridge over the canal was actually up and being used, amazing, and there was me thinking canal became redundant with the invention of the railways. |
Saturday Jul 5 |
| Running intervals (Terrain Intervals) 1:34:00 [3]16 km (5:52 / km) | |
| ahr:153 max:186 |
| Terrain intervals on Arthur's Seat, awesome. I can't remember a time when the grass was up this high. Really tough running. Lots of thistles as well which, whilst entertain the tourists, do have a prickly tendancy. I swear they used to give the place a trim with a big tractor, clearly not any more though.. It was raining, a lot, and quite cold, which is always good for keeping the tourists at bay. Still a few persistent buggers wondering about.
Got back to the flat just in time to see the last 10km of stage 1 of Le Tour. A long uphill drag to the finish, nice. Kirchen went for it, Valverde took it. He's the Spanish champion though, and despite what the French like to think and the Italians like to say, Spain are the best cycling nation. On the road anyway, bearing in mind GBR has 12 of the 32 World Cycling Championship Titles. The next is Nederlands, with 4. However this is epically skewed by the fast there are 18 track gold medals up for grabs, and only 4 on the road. |
Friday Jul 4 |
| Cycling 1:05:00 [3]17.0 mi (3:50 / mi) | |
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| Vuelta de Timanfaya, 4 laps going quite steady. The top road was closed due to the "Toad Migration". WTF. The laws of the road don't apply to me, so up and round the big red gate it was. Coming down to the Pollock round-a-bout some dude in Team SIS kit came past me like I wasn't moving. I was moving though, quite fast. Not as fast as him though, obviously.
Watched the Tour de France preview on ITV4, now I'm trying to think of my predictions. I think Cav is going to take at least one stage, it's not as flat as it could be, but nor was the Giro. His lead out train is missing Wiggins, which is a shame. But Tom Boonen isn't there which helps. As for the GC, it's pretty damn open. Cadel Evans is favourite, but CSC has an awesome trio. If they ride clever they'll take it, if they ride like Astana last year then they won't. |
Thursday Jul 3 |
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| Accidentally slept in far too long. Pretty annoying, I don't like getting up late. Had some porridge and played with the idea of going cycling, decided not too. I've been running more than I have since last August, so my legs are getting a bit battered, a rest day today and they will be good to cycle tomorrow.
I spent this afternoon planning the next few months, at the moment I'm just training to get fit for training. Things will really kick off in September. Orienteering 7 out of 8 weekends in September and October looks pretty good. Culminating in the SHI's, interesting.
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| C • SHIs for Scotland or Englan... 4 |
Wednesday Jul 2 |
| Running 1:01:00 [3]10 km (6:06 / km) | |
| ahr:160 max:201 |
| Hill intervals on Arthur's Seat, a whole world of aerobic pain, and I love it. I love the feeling of acid through your arms, I love seeing my heart-rate over 200bpm even though I'm hardly moving. And I love being overtaken by fat joggers on my warm-down who have literally no idea of the brutal punishment that just got dished out up the Dry Dam. As someone once said, "the pain of not doing is much worse".
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Tuesday Jul 1 |
| Cycling 2:09:00 [3]36.0 mi (3:35 / mi) | |
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| So when did Spring Onions become Salad Onions then? I must have missed that one. Watched Andy Murray vs Gasquet last night, probably the best match of tennis have ever seen. Not due to Murray's excellent tennis, which there was plenty of, but just for shear excitement. So many times he could have closed a game and so many times he failed to. Brilliant. I particuarly enjoyed to moment where he ended up playing a shot from pretty much in the crowd and won the point off it. Good land. Not a quitter, I like that.
Went for a spincycle out to the west for a change. Headed out past Herriot-Watt and then explored the country lanes, some nice roads. A lot of flies flying at eye level. Got stalked by a police car as I was doing 32mph, downhill, in the position, in a residential area. I didn't get busted. Obviously an act of respect for my time-trialling ability rather than the fact it's pretty slow. |
Monday Jun 30 |
| Running 1:02:00 [3]12.7 km (4:53 / km) | |
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| Attempted to follow JWOC online, unfortunately it's being organised in Sweden which us inevitably led to issues. Fortunately those issues only affected the angry masses of poor English speakers struggling to follow the progress of their nations young stars. People were getting pretty pissed off, which is a bit silly. It seems that the orienteering public now expect live results and commentary at all big race. Which, to be honest, shouldn't be a big problem for Sweden. Back when I was a lad it was pin punching and split times off a casio watch, oh the good old days.
Easy cruise around Arthur's Seat in the evening. Felt average, hills represented a significant obsticle. |