Training Log Archive: AlistairH

ESOC Hair of the Dog event at Cammo, dropping my SI card... + collecting a few of the controls + another loop looking for my SI card... which I found! Just where I crossed a fence near the end! Icy underfoot. Good fun and nice to get out for some faster running.

2011 - the plan...

Still limited by achilles tendonitis (it's not been so good the last week or two, possibly just because I've upped the strengthening exercises again) but it's getting better all the time. So...

Get another long run in next weekend then see if I can do some long intervals without aggravating my achilles tendons. If so, plan is to do long intervals (on tarmac) and a threshold-ish run (on a treadmill) during the week + orienteer as much as possible at weekends with hill runs/races when there's no O + keep up the cross-training and achilles exercises seeing as they seem to be working. That's the maximum training benefit for minimum road miles I can think of...

...if that works, start another macrocycle in June with more length over the summer, more speed in autumn. Then again, "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy" (Helmuth von Moltke the Elder).

Running to AS, a couple of ascents and back to the office.

Circuits + misc.

ELO Festive Frolic @ Yellowcraigs. Score course, visit controls in alphabetical order, but need to visit them or solve puzzle to find out the letters. Came back at 51 mins thinking I had punched everything in order but no, I had missed out one control... a good pre-season reminder of the need to always check the control codes... I had just punched a wrong control (on the white course) - I spotted that was wrong as I was punching but then assumed the next one I saw was correct and did not check its code... Really enjoyable as always and definitely running faster than a few months ago.