Training Log Archive: fluceluce

Morning dog walk up Winder with Em and Kris. Amazing views, blue sky and lovely :-)

Kendal Winter League in Sedbergh. Tired legs, very cross country like but ran fairly well, faster each lap and finishing 3rd. A good weekends racing. 1-1 in the Spain champs, me for HCN, Wil for KWL.

High Cup Nick Fell Race - Not my forte as it's a bit runnable. Set off with no expectations as not sure whether tooth would be fixed enough to run hard. Turned out to be fine and after a fast 35-40 mins, quite a lot of people appeared to have set off too fast when we started heading up the valley to the Nick. Overtook all the way up, from somewhere around 15 to 6th at the top. Breathing not too happy with the last steep climb so about 0.5-1mile easing off slightly on the top, then upped the pace as I started to be caught. Not sure how many places I lost on the descent but quite a lot. Turns out I can run uphill but not that well on long gentle descents! Still, a good run out for the thirs run in a month!

Friday night climbing with Wil and Chelsea. 5, 6a, 5+, 5, 5+, 6b(half), 6a, 6b (part). Got some 6b's to work at....

Badminton with Steve, Andrew and Zaeed. Even a bit of singles to finish which was much more energetic!

Thursday night Sedbergh run. Winder TT to get my handicap for future TTs. Not on full power as still some healing of tooth to go, but got up in sub 12 (~11:50) and feeling much better than the last month or so, so a good start and a good handicap ;-)

Comedy attempt at paddling on Windermere. Forecast had been looking more promising all week but had reverted back to the original 50mph gusts this morning. Abandoned ship pretty quickly!

Tooth removed! Now to wait for it to heal and get back on the running.

Arranged to intercept Sabs on her way to carnforth to pick her car up. Aimed for Briggsteer at 9am ish. Set off and felt like death, nothing to give and moving so slowly! Could barely raise pace above 12mph even on the flat. Almost turned around at the scar, but rode over the top. Warmed up into it a bit and by the time we met up was up for some flat riding. Headwind was mental all the way to Carnforth, headed out via Levens, Arnside and some convoluted loop to leighton moss for cake. All by 10:30am! Good mornings activity!

Pre rattle gill stroll with Sabs and her friend Lindsey. Over Wansfell and back via Jenkin Crag.

Windermere paddle with Sabs and her friend Lindsey. Hard work in the solo sot, but changed half way with Sabs to get a much more leisurely paddle back in the double sot. Great to be out on Windermere, even better the forecast was wrong and it was very pleasant.

Using the gap between antibiotics reducing pain and tooth extraction to fit in a training run with HPM team. Long scar run and back via the canal with Jenny and Heather. Fine for steady pace, however running back from Heather's with Jenny at 7:30/mile I knew about the infection still being there! Good to be out after what seems like a long time inside.

Antibiotics finally had the desired effect. Full nights sleep and able to concentrate properly for the first time in over a week.

Was meant to be open 5ing, but feeling too rough to contemplate 5hrs of exercise so Rosemary had to go for it solo!

Got antibiotics

Tooth infection appeared - what a pain! Progressively more and more painful as the week went on, making me feel pretty rubbish too.

Taken most of the week to recover from DM, breathing feeling back to normal but decided to go climbing instead of running. Good fun, stuck to 5+ to start with as climbing head nowhere to be seen and really wasn't committing to any moves. After throwing myself off the wall a few times I got my climbing head back and was off on the 6bs. Time to build up some strength :-)