Training Archive: Jon XIn the 7 days ending 2008-04-12:
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Saturday Apr 12 | ||
| Mountain walking 4:00:00 [2] | |
| shoes: walking boots | ||
| Wow.
The gorgeous Cuillin. The gorgeous sunshine. The gorgeous snow. Oh yes. All 15 in the stag party including convict Connor went up Sgurr na Banachdich, great banter and great views, loving it. I have been up there before but last time it was all misty so I couldn't see how big the drops were - this time we could see all along the ridge in all its airy glory! Toyed with the ridge descent but quickly clear that I would be far too slow so change of mind and went for the snowy descent instead, lots of glissading fun. Fan-tas-tic. | ||
| Running 50:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Inov8 | ||
| A trip up the Cuillin not enough for one day's activity, so after a quick cup of tea and revealing Elle's breasts to Brad (so to speak!), most of us headed off for a trip to the Old Man of Storr.
Five of us went for the running option, led initially by Lard through a very large and very smelly marsh, then inevitably led by Angela (a girl on a stag weekend, shocking) on the steep climb - we were all puffing away and she had plenty of breath left to shout constantly after the wayward dogs! Much more cloud than earlier, which made all the amazing rock pillars and cliffs really atmospheric, well worth choosing this option over the oh-so-tempting alternative of an hour's kip! | ||
Friday Apr 11 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Not really planned to have day off but there you go - just looked at all the lovely mountains on the way to Portree instead!
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Thursday Apr 10 | ||
| Running warm up/down 37:00 [3] | |
| rhr:34 shoes: new Brooks Adrenaline | ||
| FVO hill session. Ewan, Lard, Skyhigh, David N, Elle plus debut girl Abii. And when we reached the start suddenly Trevor magically appeared too, perfect timing.
Warm up through the cemeteries etc, warm down through some of the less delightful buildings of the Old Town and back via Gowanhill. | ||
| Intervals hills 19:00 [5] | |
| shoes: new Brooks Adrenaline | ||
| 4 x 30s on/30s off up the hill until pretty much at the top
Run hard back down to start (approx 1min 30s) Did 3 sets, approx 1 min rest between sets. Worked pretty hard and it all seemed to be over pretty quickly. Good to have Ewan there to show how it should be done, made it obvious if I was slowing down too much.... | ||
Wednesday Apr 9 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| 0755 EDI-DUB
2040 DUB-EDI 'Rest' day | ||
| C • All fresh for a quality hill session! 2 | ||
Tuesday Apr 8 | ||
| Running 39:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Inov8 | ||
| warm up/down and drills | ||
| Intervals intervals 17:00 [5] | |
| shoes: Inov8 | ||
| 3 x 15/30/45/30/15 with 30s recovery between each and 2mins between sets. Did them round the pitches up past Stirling Uni golf course.
Tried hard (I think) although felt like I was struggling a bit at times - hard to tell about consistency of distance as we were starting in different places all the time (plus also harder to tell as I messed up the timing a couple of times!). Good big crowd of people there which should have helped, just not quite as into it tonight as I could have been. Maybe if I turn up in time to join the others for the warmup next week that may help... | ||
Monday Apr 7 | ||
| Running 1:11:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Inov8 | ||
| Top run round Sauchie Crags and North Third with Lard, Rosco and Bradc. Headed along the ridge to the trig point, along and then down to check out all the unmapped runnable wood and semi-open on the south east side of the wood - looks good! Back up to the ridge and along, just about reached the cars before the rain did.
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Sunday Apr 6 | ||
| Event: British Sprint Championships | ||
| Running warm up/down 30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Inov8 | ||
| Warm up for qualifier, 2km to start which helped, found a nice warm sports pavilion to do my stretching in which also helped. Right hamstring very tight after yesterday but not too bad by the start. Short warm down shuffle, should have done more. | ||
| Orienteering race 17:03 [5]*** 2.9 km (5:53 / km) | |
| spiked:24/27c shoes: Inov8 | ||
| British Sprint Champs qualifier, heat M2.
Damn and blast and bloody hell. I am a total moron. Nicely warmed up Plan to take the first little bit steady and not rush into early mistake like at Guildford. Know that area is quite straightforward so plan to get into map then pick up the pace, take it careful in the wooded section. Also know it is only 5 to the A Final, next 15 to B Final, so a steady run will qualify for B Final. Probably no M40s in A Final so M40 British Champ likely decided in B Final. Get into start lanes. Find that Mark Saunders is one minute behind me on same heat. That should be a safety net but let it hassle me instead. Rush off but luckily #1 is bizarrely on the facing side of the feature so I recognise the code when about to run past it. Head off from #1 thinking 'that was lucky, calm down, slow down'. Check compass, should have thought that before I headed too far left, where am i now? Wrong side of building, oh shit, get the other side, still doesn't look right, keep running and don't stand still, am getting towards edge of buildings, confused confused. Relocate. oh my god I'm there. Get #2 finally with a whopping 1 min 20s lost. Get a grip. Get#3 and #4 okay. Get into my running. Get Mark S in sight. Get into the woodland. Get the right elephant track out of the woodland unlike many. Get descriptions confused and suddenly think I have another one in the wood. At that moment see Mark S again to my right which confuses me more. Lose another 30s. Get into it again until #18 when I think I am at #17 and go left to avoid the uncrossable buildings, realise but lose another 15s. Finish not very happy - even unhappier when I miss the B Final by 4 places but only 4 seconds. Idiot. And out of habit I put my emit brick carefully right into every unit. Even though I had forgotten to collect a back-up card for it so there was no point. Punching quicker even if checking the display for confirmation of success too would def have saved more than the crucial 4 seconds. Double idiot. | ||
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Inov8 | ||
| Warm up for C Final, checking out road crossing etc. Seeing the people out on the various courses did at least motivate me to get out and try to do it properly this time. | ||
| Orienteering race 15:18 [5]**** 3 km (5:06 / km) | |
| spiked:22/24c shoes: Inov8 | ||
| British Sprint Champs C Final.
This was better, looked at the map a few extra times early on and even stopped dead to check out the detail in the control circle at #4 to be sure I understood it. Never managed to plan very far ahead but under control much better in this race. Almost died under a bus at the road crossing and went wrong side of building to #16 losing 10s. Also lost 10s at the penultimate when I ran down a path ending at a hedge, turned round and ran round the hedge but in fact was allowed to cross it - clear from the map plus final details said there were no uncrossable hedges - doh! But pretty clean apart from that. Finished over a minute down on the winner (14:01) but in 2nd place. Ahead of Roger T who was somehow also in this final so the day not entirely a let down! | ||