Training Log Archive: gg

Orienteering 47:00 6.6 km (7:07 / km) +200m 6:11 / km

Trail/terrain running warm up/down 45:00 8.1 km (5:33 / km)

Trail/terrain running 57:00 8.1 km (7:02 / km) +350m 5:47 / km

Strength and conditioning 45:00 [0]

Note
(rest day)

Strength and conditioning 1:00:00 [0]

Orienteering race 40:40 7.6 km (5:21 / km) +120m 4:58 / km
ahr:162 max:171

Road/track running warm up/down 16:00 3.5 km (4:34 / km)

Trail/terrain running warm up/down 17:00 2.9 km (5:52 / km)

Road/track running 52:00 10.6 km (4:54 / km)

Strength and conditioning 1:00:00 [0]

Hill/Fell running long 2:31:00 22.2 km (6:48 / km) +1100m 5:27 / km
ahr:140 max:166

Orienteering intervals 49:20 7.7 km (6:24 / km) +350m 5:13 / km

Trail/terrain running warm up/down 1:01:00 10.3 km (5:55 / km)

Road/track running 41:00 [1] 7.5 km (5:28 / km)

Note
(rest day)

Strength and conditioning 1:00:00 [0]

Trail/terrain running 1:15:00 12.1 km (6:12 / km) +120m 5:54 / km

Trail/terrain running 1:19:00 12.1 km (6:32 / km) +600m 5:14 / km
ahr:135 max:160

Road/track running 1:01:00 13.7 km (4:27 / km)
ahr:129 max:145

Badminton 1:30:00 [0]

Hill/Fell running long 2:11:00 23.8 km (5:30 / km) +1000m 4:33 / km
ahr:142 max:166

Another normal bog-standard day in Stirling. Blue sky, gorgeous views in all directions. Big hills to run up.
Started in Alva Glen, and ran across to Tillicoultry to warm up. Up past the quarry and up Mill Glen. Straight up The Law (with absolutely no "I am the law" quotes going through my head), then Andrew Gannel, Ben Cleuch, Ben Buck, across to Blairdenon Hill (still missed that sodding footpath). Quick nip down to Greenforet Hill, then back over Blairdenon to Craighorn. Wanted to get in Ben Ever and the Nebbit on the way down, but was over my time limit, so headed back down The Ogles instead, and back down Alva Glen.

Trail/terrain running 1:13:00 12.4 km (5:53 / km) +250m 5:21 / km
ahr:116 max:145

Orienteering race 44:20 8.1 km (5:28 / km) +150m 5:01 / km
ahr:160 max:170

Trail/terrain running warm up/down 28:00 5.5 km (5:05 / km)

Trail/terrain running 1:16:00 16.0 km (4:45 / km) +210m 4:27 / km
ahr:136 max:155

Strength and conditioning 1:00:00 [0]

Note
(rest day)

Strength and conditioning 1:00:00 [0]

Orienteering race 32:07 4.5 km (7:08 / km) +180m 5:57 / km
ahr:158 max:172

Road/track running warm up/down 30:00 5.8 km (5:10 / km)

Note
(rest day)

Road/track running 40:00 8.5 km (4:42 / km)
ahr:124 max:146

Strength and conditioning 1:00:00 [0]

Hill/Fell running long 2:11:00 22.4 km (5:51 / km) +1100m 4:42 / km
ahr:133 max:168

Fab long run with Mark from Dollar. Started by Castle Campbell, up over Hillfoot Hill, Commonedge Hill and Auchlinsky Hill. Down to Burnfoot, then up along the ridge of Glenquey Hill, Innerdownie, Bentie Knowe to Whitewisp Hill and Tarmangie Hill. Down and up the tough climb to King's Seat, then floating back down the Banks of Dollar and over Bank Hill to the castle. Stunning day, great weekend!

Orienteering intervals 1:25:00 7.9 km (10:46 / km) +400m 8:35 / km
ahr:149 max:169

Trossachs intervals with Mark. Epic. 6*1km intervals (roughly), with about 2-3 mins recovery between.



My map was covered in blood and partly dissolved by the time I got to number 13, so I pretty much ran on compass to number 14, and the crags and control weren't even on my map at number 21! Just a splodge of ink. Otherwise pretty good except a small miss at 6.

Trail/terrain running warm up/down 21:00 3.1 km (6:46 / km) +90m 5:55 / km

Road/track running 33:00 6.4 km (5:09 / km) +30m 5:02 / km
ahr:124 max:138

Trail/terrain running 1:04:00 13.5 km (4:44 / km) +250m 4:20 / km
ahr:140 max:165

Strength and conditioning 1:00:00 [0]

Note
(rest day)

Strength and conditioning 1:00:00 [0]

Trail/terrain running 1:00:00 11.1 km (5:24 / km) +150m 5:04 / km
ahr:122 max:151

Hill/Fell running 1:28:00 14.8 km (5:57 / km) +740m 4:45 / km
ahr:143 max:161

Ochils again. Out from Alva, up Silver Glen to Benbuck Burn, then up to the top of Craighorn. Back down to Alva Moss (like the top of Kinder up there! never found the path). Over to Blairdenon Hill - properly snowing by this point, visibility less than 50m. Then down across Menstrie Moss and up Bengengie and along to Mid Cairn. Back down to Alva direct down Torry and Wee Torry - steep descent!

Trail/terrain running 59:00 11.9 km (4:57 / km) +200m 4:34 / km
ahr:128 max:149

Strength and conditioning 1:00:00 [0]

Hill/Fell running 1:31:00 14.8 km (6:09 / km) +880m 4:44 / km
ahr:141 max:163

Great run from Alva up to Ben Ever, Ben Cleuch and Andrew Gannel Hill, then home via Tillicoultry with Rosco and Hunsie. Gorgeous day. Looking forward to more like this!

Hill/Fell running race 48:47 9.1 km (5:22 / km) +660m 3:56 / km
ahr:170 max:176

First victory in Scottish hills at Dumyat Dash. Cold, wet and windy (normal?).

Couple of young guys went off fast, but I caught them at the top of the first climb and pushed on with one (looked about 15?) on the flatter track. Had about 15s lead there, and maybe 30s on 4th place. Then we turned off the track. The marshall said to aim right - straight into a wall of chest high bracken. Ran left a bit, then cut in. Waded for about 2 mins, then saw the guy in 4th cruising down a path 100m to my left! Was bit pissed off, and rejoined in 3rd, about 20-30s down on the guy who had been 4th. Caught him and the other guy half way up Dumyat, and took the lead again. Made it to the top about 5s before the others, and then launched off the top.

One of the guys (Andrew Norman) was an epic descender (at least better than me!), and so I tried valiantly to follow him down. We made a huge gap on the steeper rougher section, the others weren't in sight coming onto the path. Then my superior flat speed took me away from him along the narrow slippery path, but I was wary of his descending ability for the last bit down into town, so I tried to push on, and was maybe 15s ahead of him coming into the hairpins. Then I missed a small short-cut turning, only a couple of seconds, but it was enough for him to be back in, with only fast downhill running into the finish. Into the last bend he was on my shoulder, and with my legs feeling like jelly, I gave everything I had, almost tripped over the curve with 50m to go, and slid over the grass to the finish line - a small dip and I probably won by about 1/10th of a second - both of us went Klinsmanning over the wet grass behind the finish line - what an amazing race!

Hard to say if the course has changed (we certainly were marshalled a different way to the course map!), but by my watch, I missed Prasad's record by 2 seconds.

Trail/terrain running warm up/down 30:00 5.3 km (5:40 / km) +200m 4:46 / km

Note

Road/track running 56:00 10.1 km (5:33 / km) +200m 5:03 / km
ahr:113 max:143