Training Log Archive: Cruachan

Event: HAVOC SWELL & ESSOL event
 

Before and after back to the car...

HAVOC Blue course at Hadleigh... a disappointing and frustrating run. I decided to try going straight to #1 but got snared up in thigh high nettles and thorns - no way of knowing that until I got into it. Made very slow progress and lost over 2 mins - going round the path was the way ahead (Mike M from HAVOC did that and caught me for 2 mins by then). A slip out of #2 (didnt spot thicket that couldn't be crossed) and managed to get ahead and was quicker to 7 and 8. In fact I was 2nd coming out of 8 (and leading without the veggie error on #1). Lost perhaps 2.5 mins at 10 trying to find a depression in thick green and then nearly 4 mins on the next one where the vegetation mapped looked totally different to reality. Loads of others thrashing around for it and it was a lottery to locate. Plodded around last few controls, dying and watching Mike M get ahead. Couldn't run through dead legs and sore hamstring.

All in all, a pretty dire outing - lack of fitness, injury, illness and medication all playing their part in my worsening performances. Oh well!

Parked up near Arbury and speed walk/jogged into town and back.

Didnt get home from Pboro until after 6 so pretty knackered and it was weeing down.

Longish day - and back to the Faculty. Visited by S and C - and did take Cocoa out for a short walk late on.

Had a resty and worked rather than going to gym/swim. After at the Faculty which was lovely and gig (Nada Surf) in the evening.

Down to IVC for evening meeting so managed to do these 2 laps of the fields and the Rec. Drizzly out.