Sunday Mar 30 |
 | Free weights-core stability 26:00 [2] | |
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| orienteering 55:00 [2] | |
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| Stoodley Pike for some technical training. It was a lovely afternoon but i felt lethargic and bimbled around a bit before mincing back to the car. Ive either got a post JK hangover (likely) or watching the world x-country on tv prior to training had put me to sleep even more than i realised (very likely). |
Saturday Mar 29 |
| running 28:00 [2] | |
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| Running to and from the race start. How can we only make the start time by 5mins when we only live 1.5miles away? By faffing thats how, doh! Didnt even have time to register or get a number. |
| running 44:00 [5] | |
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| Midgely Moor Fell Race. The first climb hurt a lot and when we hit the moor i was the only person out of the first pack to take the longer path route round the terrain which i reckon might be about 20 secs slower but at least i didnt have to run through 1km of knee deep heather. Flung myself down the first proper descent in a bid to reel in the guy in front and caught him on the steep climb back onto the moor and was starting to catch 5th+6th until they cut straight across the deep heather and i went round again. Finished 7th (i think) and would have been interesting to see if i would have been higher without the maverick route choices. Enjoyed running in an out of control fashion down the tricky descents, which is of course the whole point of fell running, along with wearing indecently small shorts. |
Friday Mar 28 |
| running 44:00 [3] | |
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| Some more recceing of routes, found some sneaky sheep trods through the heather, hope i can find them again. |
| running 11:00 [2] | |
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| Did some strides and drills afterwards to just get the legs turning over a bit. Perhaps not doing these has been my undoing over the last couple of months. Unlikely, but its worth a try. |
Thursday Mar 27 |
| Free weights-core stability 25:00 [2] | |
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| running 1:20:00 [3] | |
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| Ran up to Midgley moor via the footpath that goes through someones garage, the garage owners were cleaning the inside of their car in said garage. Reccied some of the routes between checkpoints for the race this weekend. Think ive got the first route sorted but am unsure where checkpoint 4 is supposed to be. I'll have to resort to that classic fellrunning technique of following the person infront. Didnt mean to run for as long as 80mins but it was a glorious spring evening to be on the fells. legs were a little heavy towards the end, i'll do summat shorter tommorrow. |
Wednesday Mar 26 |
| Free weights-core stability 26:00 [2] | |
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| running 33:00 [3] | |
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| Recovery run up the valley. Typical Calderdale run in that the first 2/3rds were uphill, the last 1/3rd was downhill, i saw some deer and it rained. Also got chased by a herd of sheep again, its getting embarrassing now. |
Tuesday Mar 25 |
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| So, my main thoughts from the JK apart from the fact that southern drivers are all prats are that i need to work on staying focused on 'easy' or 'boring' legs/courses and need to keep map contact at all times. Always. Also, im just not quick enough over runnable terrain, which i identified before the winter and was starting to rectify through reasonably high volumes and top quality interval sessions. However, the lack of volume/quality in my training for various reasons over the last few months has frustratingly caused me to go backwards in terms of speed. So i need to find a way of getting quicker without access to a training group who could push me that extra 5% i need during sessions. Hmm tricky. |
Monday Mar 24 |
| orienteering 36:00 [4] | |
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| JK relay. I could barely walk this morning and struggled to get out of bed. Watched everyone else sprinting around the holding pen before the start and thought bugger me im in for a tough time here. And so it proved. Navigationally i was perhaps 20 secs from perfect but physically i was a wreck. My legs were so heavy and unresponsive i could only watch and plod along as numerous young runners sped off into the distance across the fields and Shane, Dan and myself were left to punter around in their wake. It was like one of those dreams where you're trying to run but feel like you're running through treacle and just not getting anywhere. |
| running 15:00 [3] | |
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| Warm up/ bit of a warm down. |