Wednesday Apr 30 |
 | Running 1:46:00 [3]14.0 mi (7:33 / mi) | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| Parkwood Springs, some nice valley, Northern General, Firth Park, Wancobink (gorgeous area, needs mapping), Meadowhall, Airport. Met Gracie at subway and she gave me a hot dog. Yummo. Then carried on round Tinsley golf course and back through Darnall and Attercliffe. I've already run today but I'm still going to go to Beeley and I'm not a divvy. Or maybe I am. |
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| C • divvy? 6 |
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| C • route 1 |
| Orienteering 37:00 [2]3.0 mi (12:20 / mi) | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
| A very steady cruise round a short course at Beeley. Switched off a few times and made some silly mistakes. Still, it was nice to be out in amongst the bluebells with the sun shining (at times when I wasn't amongst the brambles and it was raining). |
Tuesday Apr 29 |
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| I just got on telly in the background behind Steve Ryder at the snooker :o) |
| Running long 2:10:00 [3]16.5 mi (7:53 / mi) | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| Hunters Bar, Porter Brook, Ringinglow, Burbage Edge, Roman Road, Limb Valley, Eccy Woods... Not too tired but calves and quads achey as hell. Got home and was able to empathise with what Dino's been going through for the past 10 years. |
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| C • route 1 |
Monday Apr 28 |
| Running long 2:05:00 [3]15.5 mi (8:04 / mi) | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| Quads are pretty wrecked from yesterday, but I ain't messin about this week cos I'm starting a career next week... Loxley Common, Bradfield(s), Damflask, Dungworth, Rivelin. Didn't feel at all tired but had to go very gingerly downhill and over stiles - I think it must have been the downhill through town yesterday that did it. |
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| C • hope 4 |
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| C • route 1 |
Sunday Apr 27 |
| Running race (Sheffield Half Marathon) 1:13:08 [5]13.1 mi (5:34 / mi) vdot: 64.7 | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| Still had the sore throat, but decided to run anyway and although I could tell it was there at first, I soon forgot about it. Main problem was that I forgot about the tram and decided to drive and the traffic was shocking so I didn't get to do a warm-up. Oh well, happy to just rock up and run 73 and get 10th (over 5000 ran). Never saw any mile markers so pacing and splits went out of the window. Got in a good tussle with a pack and kept shifting from 7th-14th during the race. And the support was great - kept seeing people I knew by the side of the road. Won't claim points for them though. Legs seized up at the end and I dropped 3 places. Didn't realise how far round the stadium the course went, so I thought I was on for sub-70, so a bit disappointed at the end. Reckon it would be doable if I decided I wanted to devote myself to road racing (I don't, this was my first). In the end, happy, and relieved to beat Sprotty (74.48) who ran a blinder. Grace was on fire - I hadn't even started looking for her when I noticed that she'd already finished - oops! She ran 87.09. We did a high-5 as we passed each other on Eccy Road. |
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| C • Sting in the tale 7 |
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [2]1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| Probably about 2 before and 8 after. |
Saturday Apr 26 |
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| Event: Tiomila 2008
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| Bit of a sore throat. |
Friday Apr 25 |
| Running 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| 1 point for Rob Baker (who'd forgotten his keys and locked himself out hehe). Grace was in a boo cos she needed a wee. |
Thursday Apr 24 |
| Running 1:06:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| Rivelin loop. Bit muddy but another nice evening and feeling pretty good. Knee felt a bit dodge in the evo. |
Wednesday Apr 23 |
| Orienteering (Spring Cup) 45:00 [3] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
| Nice evening out on Burbage. Fairly quickly realised I wasn't up for racing it, but it was a cracking evo and I enjoyed myself anyway. |
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
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Tuesday Apr 22 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
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Monday Apr 21 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
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Sunday Apr 20 |
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| Event: British Relays
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| Orienteering race (British Relays) 40:40 [5] | |
| shoes: adidas swoops |
| Again, started off well and got into a sizeable lead with Nixon (snr) at #7. Ballsed up in the green and got passed by lots of people. Tiredness and tummy sickness set in and my feet started hurting and I, again, turned into a pussy. Just came back first, but should have given Neil and Oli a big advantage and didn't. They both had great runs and 2nd was a good result in the end. I've now got a massive open blister on my foot and I won't be able to run for a few days. |
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| C • Ouch 4 |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
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Saturday Apr 19 |
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| Event: British Long Champs
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| Orienteering race (British Long Champs) 1:23:04 [5] | |
| shoes: adidas swoops |
| Started off well but got tired half way round and was a bit of a pussy after that and only hung on for a solid result, so 2nd was as much as I deserved really. Need to fight harder to win these things. A few wobbles but nothing major. Never had my brain go like that before. Enjoyed it and coped well with the terrain. |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [2] | |
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Thursday Apr 17 |
| Running 42:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| From Peely's up Endcliffe, up to Lodge Moor, couldn't be assed with the top of Rivelin so trespassed on the golf course instead. Back down Tom Lane. Felt fine. Tessa Harrison (1 point) in Endcliffe, plus I saw a guy who was doing reps with me at track on Tuesday (2 points). Total 21 points. |
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| C • No name = no points 2 |
Wednesday Apr 16 |
| Orienteering (Tankersley Spring Cup) 40:00 [4] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
| Set off fairly hard but legs weren't feeling great so struggled round the second half. Technique ok apart from a miss at 11, but control flow shocking cos of unfolding map at each control to punch (I didn't have a control card). Yep all good, not much else to say on that really. |
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
| followed by fish and chips from the admiral. |
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| C • admiral 2 |
Tuesday Apr 15 |
| Running intervals 20:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| Whoopdedoo 8x500m with 2mins rest. Legs stiff cos it was cold and wet. Tucked in behind little Sprot on the first 4, got ahead on 5-7 and got soundly thumped by Danger and Camel on the last. Haven't got that speed in my legs, but kept my pace up through all 8. Going through 400s in about 65-66. |
| Running 55:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| To track, drills and then back home with Neil. You should have heard the obsenities coming coming out of Neil's mouth talking about Sprotty's no show tonight - I was disgusted. |
Monday Apr 14 |
| Running 53:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| Damflask Dam, Low Bradfield, High Bradfield, Onesmoor trig and back down a different way. Dug in up the hill and felt quite strong. |
Sunday Apr 13 |
| Running 1:36:00 [3] | |
| shoes: adidas swoops |
| Longun out in the Peaks. Ran from Heatherdene up Win Hill, along the ridge, down to Ladybower, Hagg Farm, Fairholmes, Derwent Edge. Cruised along and got a bit muddy and cold and demotivated but feeling quite fresh. Cracking scotch egg after. |
Saturday Apr 12 |
| Running 1:35:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| Drove with Gracie to the caf in Rivelin then ran with her up to Packhorse bridge. She shot off up Coppice track, while I carried on out to the headstone. Had a sit down and decided I'd had enough of the run by this point, but of course was at the furthest point of the run. Back along the top of Rivelin. Muddy. Almost home and still no points, but picked up Mat-D in his car (2 points) and Sprotty in his nice new car too (2 more points) right at the last minute. Total 18. |
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| C • Shouldn't be... 1 |
Friday Apr 11 |
| Running 35:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| A very gentle run in Endcliffe trying hard not to fall asleep. Fish and chips after.Yummo. |
Thursday Apr 10 |
| Running intervals 40:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| 20x90secs (30 secs rec) Foxdal intervals on the old-skool loop (i.e. Rivelin, Stanno, Coppice track). Mainly uphill so fairly put the boot in. Ran past a group of 12 runners which would've been muchos pointos if I'd known any of them. |
| Running 24:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| 10 before, 14 after. |
Wednesday Apr 9 |
| Running 1:33:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| Out up Loxley Valley, over Stanno, down to Rivelin Dam and back along the top of Rivelin. Got hailed on a bit. Rob Baker tooted at me in Walkley - 2 points thank you very much. 14 total. |
Tuesday Apr 8 |
| Running intervals 21:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| Track 10x200m in 10mins then 7x300m in 11mins. Increased the rest on the longer ones. Sometimes you just have to accept you're not very good at something, but it still hurt so must've been good training. Cold on the old lungs. |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
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Monday Apr 7 |
| Running 59:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| Cracking run up Rivelin and Coppice track. Slightly under-dressed, but not too windy so survived ok. Nice weather, feeling pretty good. Gareth Little (2 points) and Liz Britton (2 points). Running total = 12 points. |
Sunday Apr 6 |
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| Event: British Sprint Championships
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| Orienteering race (British Sprint Champs Qua) 12:53 [5] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
| Fun fun fun in the snow with lots of people running round all over the place. Felt like I had to punch a control every time I had a decision point (or even more often than that in some cases). Fluked the first one in the woods, but careful on the one after that. Other than that, dug in and made sure I got in the final with a good start. |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
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| Orienteering race (SYO Club Champs) 13:43 [5] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
| Nice of them to let Scott have a guest run. Course was basically basic. Foolishly thought I could get through a building on 2-3, and so did Scott by the look of things, so that made no difference overall. It played on my mind for the rest of the race, but I ran pretty well from then on. Running didn't feel all that natural, but pushed hard and must've been going well. Just the right side of Oli again, law of averages says he will beat me next time by a few seconds. Scott ran a good race - we crossed over near the end, hammering it perpendicular to each other, neither gonna slow down, then about 1 metre before collision we both slow down and almost hit each other. Then I decided I would bash in a door unless it opened cos the map said it wasn't there. But it slowly opened for me. Then I skidded across an indoor marble floor in my studs. Emit's pretty gay really - people congratulating me on 2nd but not being able to be happy til download cos of all the controls I fumbled and didn't get the brick in.
Aaaaanyway, a sweet weekend for me, rounded off with a trip to Kenilworth Castle and a Maccas (and I won a free McChicken sandwich). |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
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Saturday Apr 5 |
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| Event: British Elite Middle Distance
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| Orienteering race (British Middle Champs) 35:10 [5] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
| British Champion and I won 2 gorillas. Another close battle with Johnson which was decided at the last control. I started hard and wasted energy wobbling on the first few, but got into a groove pretty soon after. The map/control placement at 10 seemed a bit odd, although I didn't spend long enough looking at it to know for sure. Anyway, lost a bit of time on 10 and 11. After that didn't do too much too wrong - didn't risk too much and ran hard. Was trickier than I expected - no-one quite had the perfect run. Chuffed with the win and to join some great names on the trophy and in the UK Cup winners hall of fame. |
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| C • con 4 |
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
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Friday Apr 4 |
| Running 37:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| Around the roads. No points. |
Thursday Apr 3 |
| Running intervals 40:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| Foxdal intervals. 20x90 seconds (30secs rec) up Endcliffe Parks, over to Limb Valley and back into Endcliffe. You couldn't make it up - you really couldn't: as I mounted the crest of the hill above Limb Valley, I see a shimmering of the sun reflecting off a head of grey hair. He's running towards me. Who can it be? Gavin Williams AGAIN! Stopped for a chat this time and bagged my 2 points. Got another 2 points seeing Rick O'Toole running a bit later on. Total of 8 points now. Felt alright. |
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| C • gavin = 1/2 1 |
| Running 15:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| 10 before and 5 after. Suppose it'd be a bit cheeky trying to claim a point for bumping into Grace at the end of her run. |
Wednesday Apr 2 |
| Running 1:25:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot |
| Gracie dropped me off at Wyming Brook and I ran home via Rod Moor (hehe), Damflask and Loxley Valley. I am so stiff! Circuits on Monday has ruined me completely. At least it was mainly downhill.
Got a 4 pointer - Gavin Williams out walking in Loxley Valley. |
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| C • Early lead 2 |
Tuesday Apr 1 |
| Running 42:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| Needed to loosen my legs off after circuit stiffness, but not sure if I feel any looser after this run. Out to Malin Bridge, along the Rivelin Valley road, up Hagg Hill to Crosspool and back down from there. I actually had to stop and take off my thermal on the way up the hill. I put it back on again at the top. There you go. |
| Running intervals 20:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| 4x500m then 2x1km at the track. Haven't done reps that short/fast for a while, on top of all the aches and pains associated with circuits yesterday, meant I felt very heavy. Dunno what times I did the 500s in, but I was a fair bit behind Rob, then did the 1k's in about 3.10 at a more cruisy pace. Had a fish and chip reward for doing the session. |
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| C • About 85 seconds 1 |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
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