Wednesday Oct 31 |
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| Run to work, up the hill to Walkley then down South Rd. |
| Running 35:00 [3] | |
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| Run home, with some spiral inspired hills and a few fastish efforts. Legs felt tired - there were loads and loads of people in fancy dress. Favourite was a guy/girl in a monkey suit. |
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| C • is that a guy and girl in a... 2 |
Tuesday Oct 30 |
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| The new cycle to work only takes 13 minutes but the hill up to University means that you arrive with a nice sweat on! |
| Running 50:00 [3] | |
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| Run to track and back - very late getting there and was secretly hoping that the session would have already started....no such luck. |
| Running intervals 20:00 [5] | |
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| 1700, 1600, 1500, 1200 (supposed to have been a 1400). Really struggled tonight, but based on my training (or lack of it) in the last month I deserved to. |
Monday Oct 29 |
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| Entertaining my parents and more box sorting, table purchasing shenanigans. |
Sunday Oct 28 |
| Running 1:20:00 [3] | |
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| Steadyish run with OJ. Hardly anyone about (apart from Magic). |
Saturday Oct 27 |
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| Spent the day mostly emptying boxes and struggling to construct flat pack furniture - I really didn't realise moving house could be this much fun. |
Friday Oct 26 |
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| Moving house - what a pain. James H was a star and really helped - Craney was non existent and therefore rubbish.
Novelty of driving a transit van up and down the streets of Sheffield quickly wore off.
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Thursday Oct 25 |
| Running 30:00 [2] | |
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| Really busy at work, so only got to get out for a 30 minute session. |
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| Ash gig - with Clare, OJ and Craney + others. Good fun - hadn't been a gig in ages. OJ ran off early, whilst Craney, Clare and I stayed for a few extra drinks. |
Wednesday Oct 24 |
| Running 50:00 [3] | |
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| Running at lunchtime - up through parks. Did 2X10 min efforts during the session, just to make me concentrate. |
Tuesday Oct 23 |
| Running 30:00 [3] | |
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| Warming up and down before hills. |
| Running hills 20:00 [5] | |
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| Missed track due to work - punished myself by doing spirals (out, back and then out again). Felt quite good. |
Monday Oct 22 |
| Cross training 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Pilates - there were 4 blokes today which was exciting (for the other girls obviously). Struggled to do an exercise that involved balancing on my side. |
| Running 30:00 [2] | |
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| Steady run after Pilates - including 1XHeroes. |
Sunday Oct 21 |
| Orienteering race 30:00 [5] | |
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| Senior Homes relay. Fun, enjoyable (but steep and tough) courses. Spent most of my time trying to reel Ant Squire in (after a mistake on number 3) and staying ahead of Nails (after he made a mistake on a different number 3). Succeeded on the former but failed on the latter.
Felt ok running but still had no zip - lungs fine with my legs the limiting factors.
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Saturday Oct 20 |
| Orienteering race 1:18:00 [5] | |
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| SHI individuals. Had not been thinking about this race at all during the week - normally a sign of a bad run looming - but actually was pretty pleased with my orienteering. Two small misses (of 1 minute each) and maybe a couple more on route choice.
Was not running at the same speed as the top 3 - legs just not up for terrain running at the moment.
Pleased to score for England. |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
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Friday Oct 19 |
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| Travel to the Brecon Beacons with Mike S et al. Fun journey listening to pearls of wisdom from the curmudgeon that is Dr Nails. |
Thursday Oct 18 |
| Running 1:15:00 [3] | |
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| Run to Hallamshire and then farlek with the boys. This involved mainly running up hill. Good session and we stayed roughly all together. Need to start wearing more reflective kit - we all looked like burglars today. Al challenged me to a run up Heroes at the end - forgotten how tough it was. |
Wednesday Oct 17 |
| Cross training 25:00 [3] | |
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| Legs and bums for 30 minutes before weights. |
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| C • thighs and bums... 1 |
| S+C 30:00 [3] | |
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| Squats (front, back, single leg) + physio exercises. Felt ok - tried to focus on technique. |
Tuesday Oct 16 |
| Running 45:00 [3] | |
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| Run to and back from track. Started to rain as soon as I stood outside the office for the first time. |
| Running intervals 25:00 [5] | |
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| 1x1700, 1x1600, 1x1500, 1x1000 with 1 minute recovery. Tried to stay on track for 5 minute milling pace - managed it for all but the 1500 effort. |
Monday Oct 15 |
| S+C 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| Pilates session at S10. I was again the only bloke - but managed to get there on time this week. Definitely felt that I was working better, but could get a lot stronger. |
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| C • The only bloke?? 2 |
Sunday Oct 14 |
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [5] | |
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| Compass sport cup race. Felt tight from yesterdays session but pleased to be out. Psyched up for the race by listening to MC Hammers "can't touch this" on the radio - 3 times.
Struggled to enjoy the orienteering race, but it was good to have a map in my hand again. Messed up one control really badly (or really well?). No where near GG - time to get my finger out.
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| Orienteering warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
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Saturday Oct 13 |
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
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| Running intervals 20:00 [3] | |
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| Felt guilty after avoiding Ian's sessions during the week so went out to the Saturday session in penance.
10 minute effort with a 2.30 recovery then 8 minutes. Felt ok, but tired and Almand got the better of me by the end. Good session. |
Friday Oct 12 |
| S+C 15:00 [3] | |
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| Talking to Dave from Hallamshire about new programme. He looked at my squats etc and I was doing ok. Weights felt tougher than when I have been doing them at S10 - maybe stiffness from last night but I suspect that the bar I am using at S10 is not 20kg - bugger I am obviously not as strong as I thought!
Spoke briefly to the new sports psyc that I will be working with Ian Maynard. This will be exciting because he has worked with a lot of olympic medallists in the past. |
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| C • cars to SHIs 1 |
| Running 15:00 [3] | |
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| Running down and to Hallamshire. |
Thursday Oct 11 |
| Running 1:30:00 [3] | |
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| Run and back to Hallamshire then 1:4 session (Mike and I sneaked out before could get roped into a farlek session). Hill still felt tough on ascent, but the cruise downhill was a lot easier than last week. This will be really tough in the dark. |
Wednesday Oct 10 |
| S+C 30:00 [3] | |
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| Fun and games at S10 - spotted some other runners (easy to spot because they also looked puny and were lifting smallish weights) from the Uni. |
| Cross training 30:00 [3] | |
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| 30 minute, toning and sculpting my buttocks and upper thighs on the glide thingy machine. |
Tuesday Oct 9 |
| Running 45:00 [3] | |
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| Fastish run from work at lunchtime. Was hoping to get to intervals but just a bit too busy. |
Sunday Oct 7 |
| Running 1:15:00 [5] | |
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| Ian Hodgson relay - leg with Craney. Felt rubbish for last few days fighting off a cold or something, but seemed to run well on the leg itself. |
Saturday Oct 6 |
| Running 1:15:00 [2] | |
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| Easy run with Mike and Mat |
Thursday Oct 4 |
| Running 1:20:00 [3] | |
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| 1:4 session with Hallamshire - totally killed myself on the downhill - hip flexors never been so sore. |
Wednesday Oct 3 |
| S+C 30:00 [3] | |
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| Cross training 30:00 [3] | |
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Tuesday Oct 2 |
| Running race 25:00 [5] | |
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| 12 x 400m in 68 - 70 pace. Hard session - foot felt ok. |
Monday Oct 1 |
| Cross training 30:00 [3] | |
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| S+C 30:00 [3] | |
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