Training Log Archive: ba-ba

Opted to take the rest of the day off to try and better lose the tiredness.
I think I may have found the 'biggest bonk' at Edale.
From just behind me at Mam Nick to 147th place finish, Take a bow!.

C • Kendal runner 2

ITW with Craig. Quads sore.

TTDP Illegal Street Racing Fat Cat Urban.
Nice trundle around some of Sheffield's less salubrious settings. A few errors and routes missed here and there, quads not entirely chuffed when having to go downhill. Good fun.

collected some controls before filling up on chilli and wedges.

Bumped into Lova for a bit. Hungry once home.

Edale Skyline English champs 1. 18th, +16 (110%) on Carlos.
The last 2 weeks, whilst not totally ideal, had at least served as a good taper and I was feeling pretty good and confident.
Set off steady around the usual suspects. I then got a worldy of a line underneath the woolpacks to the top of Jacob's ladder - Wardy had given me a heads uo beforehand and I freestyled it well - to leapfrog a good min or more, landing on Bray's shoulders. A nice chat along the flags feeling comfy, watching Stead dissapear into the distance.
Dropped back a bit on the ridge and was losing a bit more than ideal on the climbs. Eased down to hope road and kept it sensible up Hope Brink. Suffered a bit between Win Hill and Crookestone, Ted M, Lamby and Mike A pulling away, but Will N and Gav stayed the same distance ahead.
Plodded as best I could up from Hope cross, a Wharfe came past but reeled in Jack Wood doing what Jack Wood does best (bonking hard), but I could feel a top 20 slipping away. However as the grade eased a bit at coffin rock I got a second wind, picking off Will, Gav, Wharfe, a struggling Lamby and reeling Bray in at RR before dispensing of him on the descent.

Lovely day out, well paced and a good result, especially in an early season race when a lot of people are out to play. 30s slower than my 2015 time in the opposite direction in windy rainy foggy and Brown Knoll pre-flagstone conditions.

Reversing the route does make up for the loss of a foggy, boggy Brown Knoll eliminator, replaced with hope brink and Crookestone climbs.

Easy with Han then some faster stuff to get the body ticking over.
Been feeling quite up and down for the last couple of weeks. Hopefully it'll be up tomorrow

Bumped into Bayton as I left so had a decent run in. Feeling better.

Cannings and houndkirk with Han.