Training Log Archive: Frostbite

Middleton Park, Green course.

Manned the start for an hour and a half and I wasn't planning on running but decided to do the Green course anyway. Compass-less, because somebody had taken it out of the box and left it at home (not me). Pootled round feeling a bit tired, struggling a bit on the hills and a bit wayward on direction here and there, but nothing major. Slight misses on #2 (20 secs), #4 (15 secs), #8 (15 secs) all due to lack of compass. More significant error at #11. I went straight across the valleys which might not have been the quickest route anyway, but also missed the control because it was too close to the corner of the woods above the slope. It was in the right place relative to the detail on the slope, but I had already gone past it when I cut in from the top. 1 minute lost.

1st place I think, 3 minutes ahead of Jack Cooper, 8 ahead of Lulu.

C • #11 1

Control collecting.

Disaster Recovery test. 11 hours of tedium.

Flat out, seeing if I could go quicker than 3 weeks ago. Yes, I could, in spite of the rain, the cold, the dark and the slippy leaves everywhere. Not bad.

New target - to do this in under 12 minutes by Burns Night.

Warm up round Clarendon, jog back via Weetwood

Weetwood and Lawnswood, with 6 x 2 mins fast 1 min slow. A little bit off the pace. Couldn't get the HR above 150.

Spen Lane and Adel. Never got going, just not with it at all. Slowed right down on the way back down Weetwood Lane.