Saturday Jan 12 |
 | Running 1:08:49 [3] | |
| shoes: Inov8 |
| Met MC at Ladybower and headed up Whin Hill - set off together and met up for the descent, but in between I went off for loop along the top of the woods and then up to the summit along the ridge. Pushed fairly hard on that bit and felt pretty good, took it nice and gentle on the (v muddy) descent. |
Friday Jan 11 |
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| (rest day) |
| Unplanned rest day - car was in for MOT and I was meant to run out after work and get it.
In the end it turned out I needed to go back to the office afterwards so I accepted a lift to my car - by the time I finally got home at 8.45pm it was minus 3 degrees and I didn't have the willpower to get out for a jog....
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Thursday Jan 10 |
| Intervals hills 30:00 [4] | |
| shoes: new Brooks Adrenaline |
| FVO hill intervals up Ballengeich Road towards Castle. Bit of an exploratory session to see how this can best work during the next couple of months.
We did hard efforts with jog down recovery, effort lengths were 30sec/1:00/1:30/2:00/2:30 then back down the set (i.e 2:00/1:30/1:00/0:30).
Could feel in in my stomach muscles by the third interval (which was the one after which Dixie started to pull away each time) that I was suffering - need to work on that core strength!
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| Running warm up/down 32:00 [2] | |
| shoes: new Brooks Adrenaline |
| Warm up and down before the hill session with FVO crowd.
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| Fitball 15:00 [1] | |
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| Did some quick abs and hamstring stuff when I got in from hills.
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Wednesday Jan 9 |
| Orienteering 55:16 [3]*** 6 km (9:13 / km) +80m 8:38 / km | |
| spiked:19/21c shoes: VJ Falcon |
| FVO night race at Hermitage Woods/Stirling Uni, new extended area for the sprint spec map by Steve Barrett which was great.
Forth Bridge closure had caused a few travel problems for people and I was in the late arrival group - I still did the whole thing but started 15 mins late. Wasn't feeling too good beforehand but two pints of water and some emergency food from Janine seemed to help - probably a good thing though that I was able to trundle round at my own pace rather than starting in the mass start and being hurried along.
Next night race in two weeks is organised by me, must get round to it some time!
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Tuesday Jan 8 |
| Intervals intervals 25:00 [5] | |
| shoes: new Brooks Adrenaline |
| FVO intervals - quite a few Ochils there too so a good crowd, maybe 15 people or so.
Did 14 times 60secs on, 60secs off, plus 3x6secs sprints at the end. Felt rubbish all day but my oh-so-sensible diet all day of one sandwich, two large strong coffees and three packets of Lockets seemed to have done the trick - running pretty strongly although I couldn't quite keep up with Jamie! It poured with rain so we were all soaked, I was freezing by the time i got home which will really help me keep the threatened cold at bay....
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| Running warm up/down 35:00 [2] | |
| shoes: new Brooks Adrenaline |
| Warm up/down and drills etc. |
Monday Jan 7 |
| Running 38:46 [3] | |
| shoes: new Brooks Adrenaline |
| First day back at work, must be allergic to it as my glands were up this morning as well as having a sore throat.
Decided to apply the tried and trusted method of getting well again by running through it so went out round Leckie loop with headtorch - clear starry night when I set off, snowing on me within 10 minutes!
First time out in new trainers bought just before New Year, felt nice and bouncy! |
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| C • Sick 5 |
| Fitball 40:00 [1] | |
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| Got a gym ball at Xmas as a new toy to try and work on my rubbish core stability - low intensity session as I spent most of it trying to remember the exercises! |
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| C • Exercises 3 |
Sunday Jan 6 |
| Mountain walking 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon |
| Walked up from home to trig point at Carleatheran with Marie Claire, still some snow left but weather stayed mainly good - haven't been up there for a while so surprised to find the wind farm south of the summit has appeared already, didn't think it was done yet!
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| C • Marie Claire 3 |
| Running 35:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Falcon |
| Gentle jog down from Carleatheran back home with MC, happy for an easy jog as feeling pretty lethargic. Ideal way to be feeling when finally have to go back to work tomorrow.... |