Training Log Archive: Pete

Marshaling at the Edale skyline, so I ran from the village hall in Edale out along the race route to the north side of Win hill in the woods. Legs ok all the way out, having to get a shift on though to make sure i got there in plenty of time before the leaders came through. Marshalling for an hour and half ish which I thoroughly enjoyed, but got a bit cold and the legs were seizing up/DOMS setting in so the run back was fairly clunky and painful.
The weather however was perfect for the skyline and great to see Oli getting back to form and Rob and Mark both having solid runs. Enjoyed spectating at the end, although knowing all too well the cramp induced faces of pain that i saw at the finish.

Long Mynd Valleys, English Champs Race, 28th.

Happy with that as a start. The race went off relatively fast, but I got into a decent position and steadily moved up the first small hill, only to lose about 5 places on the descent. My descending skills, especially down steeper stuff, aren't as good as those around me, but THE FIRST CHAMPS RACE SHOULDN'T BE MY FIRST FELL RACE OF THE YEAR. In shouty bold so that I remember, I need to get my descending legs moving earlier.

After that it's mainly fast good running all the way down to the far end of the course. Caught up with the group of 4 including Tom, Sam Stead, Gav Mulholland and Ben Abdelnoor and ran with them until Tom got a second wind and pulled away. The climbs and descents all the way back to Yearlet went well overtaking a few on the climbs and switching places with Sam and Ben on the descents (them overtaking me!). The last climb up Yearlet though was a bit of a monster 35% gradient and it finished me off. Adam Perry came past at the start of the climb and finished in 22nd, so I dropped a fair amount. I wasn't overly tired, but clearly need to keep working on multiple ascents and probably should have taken on some gels/food/water.

Decent start to the series, just a shame a few injuries marred the team result. I was third counter behind Matt and Tom, which I was chuffed with given I normally don't count, but I hope this won't count to the team score at the end of the series. By my calculations we were 4th team behind Keswick, Helm Hill and P&B.

Warm down shuffle

Rest Day

Down into Rivelin and back via the alpacas and a loop of Walkley. Legs felt absolutely crap, crawled along Rivelin.

Brincliffe Edge loop, all very steady

Really tired this morning and didn’t want to run to work and make things worse, so warm up round the track

Hallamshire track session, 5 x 1k (200m jog)

3:17 (1:14), 3:20 (1:14), 3:21 (1:12), 3:18 (1:15), 3:19

Pretty tough session, with what seemed like little rest, galvanised myself halfway through and was moving better towards the end.

Warm down round the track, the advantage of driving to track is that I didn’t have to suffer the deathmarch home, which should leave me fresher for Saturday.

Pretty tired, don’t think the allotmenteering yesterday helped, so just a small loop of HGC, extended to Nethergreen.