Training Log Archive: Cruachan

To Post Office then via CTs to Tesco and back (including another pitstop to pick blackberries). Felt rubbish - really drained and leg weary, possibly from the hard cycling yesterday.

To work - lovely still morning and I felt relaxed so very pleased with how easy getting under the hour felt. Cycling felt much easier this week.

Increased the effort from the morning (and it was pretty warm too - 25C) but didn't quite get under 60 as the breeze was strong enough to create some speed-affecting head and crosswinds for pretty much the whole route. Also felt tired from the morning.

A 'get out and see how I feel run'... the evening was so lovely and I felt good (inside, but not legs which are sore from Sunday) so did North End, Burwell and back via Heath Rd.

Easy run via bottlebank then Tesco loop - felt tired and a little leg sore, but otherwise fine. Followed the run with some 'strength' work.

Event: EMUL League
 

Event: JK 2017
 

Before and after the Lincoln race.

Lincoln City Race - and probably my worst Urban race! After the excitement of Wales, I got brought back to earth with a bump and showed the dangers of complacency and lack of specific preparation (including armchair map reading). Was running well/hard but normally reliable urban O-ing let me down. Increasingly costly errors - at 4 (went up the wrong street and dibbed another control first - mercifully realising my error before I left the area (30 secs), at 8 where I simply lost track of the roads and went down a parallel street (naturally nothing making sense on the map - relocated and had to circle the area and come in from the opposite end than planned to - 1 min) and finally and most costly, at 19 (in the tricky remains south of the Cathedral - totally misread the map and didn't think logically, started looking anywhere and even going into the remains and cavern part - 2 mins). Oh well. Better planning and prep next time!

Again from Cranmer Rd at a good lick and back with some heavy shopping :)

From Elmbridge, up the CT path to the Town Park. Big loop then back along the river.