Training Log Archive: Cruachan

Beforehand (trying to calm down) and afters back to the car.

EA Champs at Thorndon and intended to run down into M21 to have a go at winning the trophy I should have won last year (but didn't due to what age I had declared on entry). Thought I could do it fine this year by recording myself as M21 (i.e. Open). No chance. Apparently you can run and win the British as an out-of-age-category runner (i.e as an M35 or M40), but not the EA! Barking nonsense. Best line was the retort that running as an M45 against M21s didn't give a fair chance to the youngsters. You couldn't invent if you tried!

It meant I went out narked and made silly errors (3-4 mins) but still wouldn't have won overall - well done to Chris Sellens.

Sometimes (actually often) our sport is petty and obsessed with pointless rules that make no sense and might actually be discriminatory.

Marshalling at Parkrun and then never got out... fine as felt pooped from the week away.

Decided not to run first thing, then went straight to school and didn't get out from meets and then the show.

Reasonable sleep and then an exploratory trot around Southwell. Nice.

Early trot to the SC and back. Felt reasonable.

Nice and easy recovery run down round XC course, to Brand for 2 laps and back... Used Mapmyrun to measure Brand mile and it came up as 0.96 mile which suggests it is 64 metres short of a mile. Will do another couple of measurements to get 'triangulation'.