Training Log Archive: Whitesheep

this time went out to the hilly side with uncle dave who is getting the miles in for a Leeds-London ride in a few weeks. We went on a fairly long loop over parbold hill, round to eccleston (wiggo country - we passed a mural of him on the road through eccleston), then through rufford and back to the hills again. Up parbold hill a second time on a nicer, quieter road and then crossed the valley up the far side of ashurst beacon. The first section of that climb is an absolute beast - pretty tough after 2 hours.

steady ride around the flat side of my parents' place. Out towards Formby then back across to Burscough. Almost no climb although the headwind on the way out towards the sea was pretty strong.

nice easy jog round BPP

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Event: London Park Race #3: Imperial College
 

Imperial College park race
Another good race on this tricky map. I think I had different attitudes for the first and second half of this race. I started quite steady and focused on planning ahead for the complicated section over the first few controls. That meant I could go clean to #12 climbing to 2nd place.
Then I have to admit I got a bit vain as I went past a couple of colleagues and thought I should put the hammer down through the easy 13-17. It didn't work out for me. I ran past #13 and got #19 wrong, thinking it was high. Those mistakes dropped me down to 7th place. Will try and learn from that.
Felt like I was running properly for the first time since April, although I really started to fade on the last few around the park.

Long - Splits

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