Training Log Archive: ToddO

Out into the cold and along Southey Street and around the flat streets before a looping onto Brandelhow Crescent and turning onto the main road E out of town. Little out and back to the bridge over the Greta before heading up the hill to follow Ambleside Road homewards.
R) Achilles a bit tight and the L) lat hamstring twinged away.

Pretty sore from falling over yesterday but had taken some basic painkillers and just cracked on at work with some physical patients.
This felt fine really.

Went at a good power-walk cadence today.

Middle 5 mins in reverse. feeling a little hard.

Somehow kept dipping below 90 rpm and the HR was 150 so I stopped after 10 mins rather than do the intended 15. Not sure whether the cold is coming back so backing off was ok.

Good stretch-out afterwards.

Met Neild, Ben Martin, Sophie, Paul Satterley and some others, that I didn't know, at the lay-by N of Dodd main car-park.
Realised everyone was covered in reflectivity apart from me. I had some flecks on my gloves! Not sure it was necessary for the trails of Dodd nor Ben's fluoro yellow bum-bag worn at the front. It matched his top though...
Trundled along with Neild and went past everyone before we were joined by Sophie and a chemical engineer called Andrew at the front. Did a couple of turn-backs to go to the back once we had hit the hill but once we were on the main track we just pootled off.
Very snowy once a bit higher and the well foot-compacted snow was quite slippery.
Put in a faster bit of running from the fire-road to the summit.
Tried to avoid the ice on the descent by cutting xc but soon had a wipeout nd landed heavily on my R) arse-cheek. It hurt quite a lot, gave me a couple of cuts and my lower back immediately went tight.
Warned the following pack off going onto the icier sections then I took an out n back approach rather than the steeper more direct path that everyone else went down. I didn't want to hit ice on a steeper part! Andrew had already wiped-out a few times.
overtook the back-markers as I got back to the car-park.
Discuss the Band 7 MSK job that Ben had applied for at Keswick before painfully getting back into the car.

The faster bit to the summit.
Neild said it would take 7 minutes. Such a liar!
And he took several seconds longer.

King Kong wall with all the Findlay-Robinsons apart from the original. Dan and wife gave it a go in normal shoes.
Not sure I completed anything I hadn't done before but I re-did some harder ones and got further on the lilac coloured one next to the window (that a couple of old guys crushed last time) involving big rounded holds that took a lot of squeezing. Rhys made it.
Not getting too tired in the gripping muscles or arms today.