Training Log Archive: bradc

FFS, I've pulled a muscle or trapped a nerve in my shoulder/neck now! Zip sleep last night arrgghhh

C • You're lacking in viscosity mate 2

Very slow jog around Dunblane checking control sites for tomorrow's O. Knee strapped and shoulder slathered in brufen gel. Crock! TRIMP 70.1.

Knee still not good. Easy non-impact mobilisation on the Vario. TRIMP 36.8.

Stretching, core, machines.

Event: Scottish Championships Relays
 

Knee too beggared to do any running today. Grand plan to stay off it scuppered by a zillion house/garage chores!

Jog to the start.

Scottish Champs M45L: 9.8km +130m. Pretty dire, for all the wrong reasons. Basically, I stuffed up my fuelling strategy, and panicked to compound one error with three more.

I normally run second, and eat a chunk of my lunch early, but I was running first today, so didn't. Of course, the Scottish starts are later... so it was already marginal by the time I got to the start at 12:45, and by the time I actually got a start, 40 minutes later at 13:25, it had been five hours since breakfast.

I was OK on the first section in Yellowcraigs, only missing #9/213 - by 45s - (was that in the right place?) on the long run to Gullane. After turning the map, though, and running to #15, I suddenly found myself in the wrong place and with no idea what I was doing or how to relocate. I'd basically crashed, and couldn't think straight. I binned 8 minutes right there. I then panicked and dashed off to #16 (tricky) with no AP and missed it, losing 5 more minutes trying to find it; was dispirited and had no strategy to #17 (3m30s lost) and then, totally dejected, immediately did a 180 and binned another 2m30s. 19 minutes binned in four controls - disaster.

By now I was going so slowly that I had recovered a little and had realised what was going on. I switched into 'get me home' mode; from then to the end of the course I was moving slowly but only lost maybe 30s (at #29/128) in the remaining 28 minutes of running.

To add injury to insult, my gammy left knee started to ache at the 80 minute mark and by the time I finished was swollen and non-functional. I limped the 2km back to assembly, was too frozen to untie my shoelaces at the car, and finally sat, shivering, eating my lunch at a quarter to four.
Not a great day.

TRIMP 213.

Update - in 2nd place at #14 before the brain melt.

C • Well 2

Event: Scottish Championships - Individual
 

Just spinning the legs before the weekend. Lovely evening to be out. TRIMP 98.9.

Feeling like I need to sharpen up a bit, so, I decided to go for a few reps. Jogged out along the Darn Path then 3 x reps up the path next to Wharry Burn. Stuffed up the first one (stopped my watch rather than hit the rep key, durr), but the times were 4:29, 4:36 and 4:33. OK, but not great - more sharpening up required! TRIMP 108

Argh I have forgotten to enter the Scottish Champs!!!

C • want my entry? only downsid... 6

C • Doh 2