Training Log Archive: AlistairH

Easy Sunday. Really trashed after Tuesday intervals, Thursday intervals, 2 x Saturday races but did "80-90 mins real easy". All good. This keeps going to the end of May with some easy weeks, then it's 1/2 marathon prep from an actually running well start. Just need to fit in the losing 10% of my body mass.

L.knee a bit sore by the end. Should be fine if I don't do anything stupid like enter a marathon.

Both races

Scottish Spring - middle distance race at Wallace Monument. Sticking with my current speed focus (5k 'til May) I dropped a course to Blue with the intention of putting in some proper effort. Not sure I really managed that with ave. HR of 146 but definitely nice to be able to put effort in. Useful also to have a chance to tune in to 1:4000 map.

I thought I was being a navigation lightweight running round the path to 7 and going W into the control from the path junction but it was my best split so I guess it worked. Lost about 30" at 10, a little at 11 and 30" running to the finish before the last control but basically pretty good.

I'm wussing out of Auchingarrich on Sunday because I just don't enjoy long trips around tough Scottish forests with a lot of falling over trees. Maybe I should go to those areas but just do a short course. Results

Scottish Spring sprint race, Castlandhill, Rosyth. 1st vet (behind 9 women on course 2). Goal was to run hard enough to get my HR nearer to road racing levels even if I overdid it - did better at that than of late with ave. HR of 154 (vs e.g. 158 for a recent 10k but mid-140s this morning). Ran pretty smoothly with only a couple of minor errors. HR lowest on 7-8 and 16-20 (starting to get a bit tired until realising there wasn't far to go). Definitely my best orienteering run for a while although my 5th best RPs. Results

TT was hill reps from the grassmarket up two sets of steps to the castle esplanade then back down to bottom of JT, then jog across (just over a km per loop). Session was 8 reps but I did 7, was lapped early on 6th lap and figured I was doing enough. Was pretty useless again on the steps, at the back with WHB.

Easy lunchtime run.

Martin's intervals #3, missing first one. Felt like I was running well but this did not seem to translate into actually running well. Something like 3'50-3'55 so slower than last week. Run home was interrupted by heading through a narrowish bit of pavement only to find a cyclist with no lights on on the pavement coming straight towards me. My instinct turned out to be to drop into a low stance and grab his handlebars to stop him just before he hit me which turned out to work.

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Easy lunchtime run around IP, easing off quads and hamstrings from Saturday. Doing some of these easier runs in shoes without orthotics so calves are stretched less during hard sessions than easier runs. Not sure that is helping however.