Training Log Archive: kido

Event: MOC Championship Mediterranean Open Championship
 

MOC Prologue in Tarragona.

Because of the lack of any information, I believed this was part of the "MOC Championship". However, turns out that all the elites (most of whom had been at the MOC Camp all week) ran in an awesome, three-stage knock out sprint today, while this event was a poorly organised "middle distance" (read: long park sprint) on a crappy, poor quality map. Pretty frustrated to be honest, I feel like it wouldn't have been that hard to put up some details.

It doesn't help that I badly rolled / sprained my ankle on the way to #1. Jogged the rest of the course.

C • Are you in Spain? 2

Quick swim, started a bit late so didn't have time for anything longer

Spent the rest of the day travelling to Barcelona.

Jog to Mary's.

Jog with Mary around the Burbage loop. This was great! Lots of fun. Felt better than I have all week. Good to have a nice yarn with good company.

Sufferfest - There Is No Try. Still weary legs today.

Social Run Group, to Norfolk Park and two laps.

Level B YHOA Superleague event at Tankersley. I went out hard on this, and I made some silly mistakes. But I had a ball! Cool area with a detailed track network and some technical contour details from old mining works.

I lost time on 1, which was really simple, because I went the wrong direction from my attack point. On 4 my route choice was a mess, keeping quite far to the right at the beginning of the leg and then taking a bit of a right angled left into the control. On 6 I made a rookie almost-parallel error on a track. For 13 in the circular-features area I went too low and had to circle back to the saddle. Then on 16 someone ran up behind me and asked "did you punch 16?" to which I replied "I'm not up to it yet!" - this threw me off completely and I compassed to the wrong pit.

The rest of the course was good navigationally but I got some stomach cramps on the way to 19 and had to make an emergency stop (in a less-than-sheltered area). But overall I enjoyed trying to keep the speed high and I think while it wasn't perfect, it wasn't too bad!

First 10 minutes of this is an out-and-back jog, the rest is control collecting.

Brooks try on run from work. Running in the Brooks Levitate. They were OK, hard to tell with my foot feeling as it does.

Considered a ride today. Decided on one more easy day. Still quite fatigued despite a couple of 9+ hour sleep nights.

Just a short easy roll up Porter in an attempt to loosen up a bit. Do feel a bit better after this, back on it for the weekend maybe.

The ball of my left foot has been bothering me. I think I just wore my Sauconys past the point where they were providing any cushioning. Changed shoes now but I guess it's still aggravated.