Thursday Jul 31 |
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| (rest day) |
| Legs functioning correctly - good.
Packed items - nil.
Yippee! Holidays at last - French 6 Days here we come...! |
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| C • Nuclear Spillage 2 |
Wednesday Jul 30 |
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| Stuffing my face in preparation for this evening's run, don't want to be passing out in the hills... |
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| C • Sounds good 3 |
| Run 1:59:44 [3] 14 km (8:33 / km) +615m 7:01 / km | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw |
| Evening adventure run with Elle and Skyhigh in the Ochils. Ben Shee, Scad Hill, Cairnmorris Hill, Tarmangie Hill, Whitewisp Hill and Innerdownie - this was the girlie route... the guys did Sheriffmuir to Glendevon over all the 2000ft summits and all made it back safely. The lack of eating facilities was a bit of a problem after the run but we found the correct quantity of chips at Clackmannanshire's best eating establishment, Little India! |
Tuesday Jul 29 |
| Run 1:19:25 [4] | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
| Run in Devilla with Peggy, a bit of a soggy mystery tour complete with bagpipe music from a local piper! |
Monday Jul 28 |
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| (rest day) |
| Rest day - I think I need one. |
Sunday Jul 27 |
| Mountain Biking 30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Specialized Bike Shoes |
| Bike rides to and from training exercises in Inchriach South and Middle. |
| Orienteering 52:05 [2] 2.7 mi (19:17 / mi) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrater |
| Exceedingly slow pace adopted for some orienteering on a training exercise, spent lots of time standing still taking in all the contour features on the map and relating these to the ground and vice versa. Tried also to visualise what the ground should look like en route to the control once at the attack point for the controls. Messed up one control after finding what I thought was a ride and led myself a merry dance in the woods... |
| Orienteering 35:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Integrater |
| Window compass and pacing exercise over the most rugged terrain in Inchriach. Didn't quite go far enough to find the first control before turning back to the start via another that I had seen earlier. I had been close but without a map decided not to go any further! Claire and I went together to three other controls and we were not very accurate at all - oh dear! I almost never use exact compass and pacing in this way when I'm orienteering - probably best in the circumstances as I would never find any controls at all. I guess I have a training need in this technique. |
Saturday Jul 26 |
| Run 47:32 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
| Run with Claire from Lagganlia and through Inchriach on paths and some terrain. |
| Mountain Biking 2:05:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Specialized Bike Shoes |
| Fantastic bike ride from Lagganlia, around Loch an Eilan and through Rothiemurchus to the Cairngorm Club Footbridge and back. The sun was shining through the trees and the scenery was magical - this is definitely my favourite place in the whole wide world. |
Friday Jul 25 |
| Mountain Biking 30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Specialized Bike Shoes |
| Pre-lunch tootle on bikes round Inchriach from Lagganlia with Claire. |
| Mountain Biking 2:00:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Specialized Bike Shoes |
| Post-lunch bike ride from Lagganlia to Loch an Eilan. Had to push the bikes through bogs, across rivers and through trees to get onto the track we wanted - a bit silly but it was fun! Had to hoof it back back along the road as we were late for dinner at Loch Inch with the coaches...! |
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| Joined Claire at Lagganlia as assistant cook for the weekend for the Start BOF Junior Tour. |
Thursday Jul 24 |
| Run 38:53 [3] 6.25 km (6:13 / km) | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
| Run from home round Linlithgow Loch. Lovely evening, seemed a shame not to make the most of it. Found another place to do some intervals, which I might get around to one day... |
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| C • One day ... 2 |
Wednesday Jul 23 |
| Run race 47:54 [5] 5 km (9:35 / km) +350m 7:06 / km | |
| shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw |
| Bog and Burn Hill Race - Turnhouse, Flotterstone. I felt the 'Burn' on that one, the hill seemed to get steeper and steeper until my calves felt like they were going to explode. Tried walking up sideways, which helped a little. My muscles in my calves cramped a bit on the steep descent, but it wasn't too serious. The best bit was being able to push myself hard on the last couple of km on the level and downhill. I got a lovely welcome from Hazel and Martin at the finish. I enjoyed this one despite being last - but that doesn't matter too much, it's the taking part that counts! |
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| C • B&B 1 |
Tuesday Jul 22 |
| Run 50:49 [4] | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
| Run at Beecraigs with Peggy. Added Witch Hill to the South and found some new paths in the woods. |
Sunday Jul 20 |
| Walk 4:15:00 [3] 12.3 km (20:44 / km) +943m 14:59 / km | |
| shoes: Hiking Boots |
| Beccy, Brad with Jamie in the backpack and I climbed Ben Vorlich in Arrochar Alps and had a great day out. Our route up to the summit turned out to be a bit tougher than it could have been because nobody had studied the route in the Munro book before setting off and so we missed the muddy path leading off the road up the ridge to the summit, although we did stand at it and deliberate for a moment or two before dismissing it. Instead we headed for the foot of the dam and from there straight to the summit on a 1 in 2 gradient with a bit of a scramble - steep! Ben Vorlich is one of those blind summit mountains and so every slope had a wee surprise at the top. Of course the reward at the top was fantastic, open views 360 degrees round Scotland - absolutely worth it. |
Saturday Jul 19 |
| Run 41:23 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
| Run with Beccy from Dunblane - round the golf course and up through the woods on a lovely uphill path that I've not been on before. Good steady pace. |
Wednesday Jul 16 |
| Run 45:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
| Run round Stirling Uni with Peggy on her first run for a while so took it very steadily, which meant plenty of breath available for chatting all the way around... |
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| Blood tests all normal, in fact blood and iron counts in upper end of range, excellent. So, it means that I was basically running on empty for my evening runs (temporary state of hypoglycemia I guess) - half starved of energy from food. Very simple to rectify: eat more before running in the evening like carbs about two hours before! I would be interested to know what others are eating and what works for you? |
Monday Jul 14 |
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| Had some blood extracted and had a chat with the Doctor - turns out he's a hill runner and able to give plenty of good advice. Now taking 600mg of iron tablets per day... dinner was a lovely steak and lots of green veg. |
Sunday Jul 13 |
| Run race 58:59 [5] 10 km (5:54 / km) +350m 5:01 / km | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
| Crieff 10K. Lovely scenic course, mostly on track and hilly so wasn't expecting to get near my vdot predicted time of 53.33mins. I was happy with my time considering I've been feeling a bit off colour lately. Still, I took 7 minutes off my Lanzarote 10K time from about ten years ago. |
Saturday Jul 12 |
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| A lazy morning.
A busy afternoon spent hoovering and washing the car, cutting the grass and weeding. |
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| C • Resting 2 |
Thursday Jul 10 |
| Run 47:01 [4] | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
| Run from the Longhursts with the FVO posse. Felt great to start with and half way round felt sick, dizzy and lacking in oomf. I guess I just bonked. This appears to be happening to me on a regular basis and despite trying to eat a big lunch, snacks and sports drinks before an evening run makes no difference. It's a bit of a mystery. It could be that I am seriously anaemic again so a trip to the Doc's is planned for Monday.
Great nosh and quiz victory at the pub cheered me up after the run! Good team effort with a few necessary debates and good banter. |
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| C • To be fair... 6 |
Sunday Jul 6 |
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| Spent two days decorating the kitchen - so much for having a rest... Watched a bit of the soggy Grand Prix whilst having lunch and sat down after the painting job was done to watch the last two sets of the men's final - what a fantastic match! |
Friday Jul 4 |
| Run 1:03:52 [4] 11 km (5:48 / km) | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
| Run at Beecraigs in the sunshine and felt good. Maybe I'm not as burnt out as I thought as I was - only 90secs slower than two months ago on this run but more likely it was because I ventured into some undergrowth, which slowed me down somewhat. Felt a lot better than I did on Wednesday that's for sure. Also helped by my new sooperdooperbooberscooper! Now converted thanks to Elle's recommendation. Thank you Shock Absorber... |
Wednesday Jul 2 |
| Run 1:01:33 [4] | |
| shoes: Brooks GTS |
| Just me n Janine, in a depleted FVO style posse, went for a post MTBO run with achey bits through B of A, Mine and Hermitage Woods. Not feeling too good at all. I am definitely suffering some sort of burn out and require a few restful weeks. Next up is Carnethy(?) and Crieff 10K - hoping to set a pb... we'll see. |