Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Training at Hepburn organised by Peter and Ralph on a warm day - went out because I wanted to get out into the terrain, to meet a pleasing mix of people - quite a few less experienced people amongst the old hands.

Warmed up with a line course (not bad, if slow, and a bit fiddly in places where the green on the map didn't match what was on the ground - not surprising given the age of the map). Next embarked on a control picking exercise, mostly OK technically, but physically was another story, on a course which made ferocious use of the area's ferocious erosion gullies - discovered that my power and agility needs a fair bit of work, and found even the smaller hills challenging by the end.

The bigger problem, though, was that I took a big knock on my right big toe in mid-course, and while I was able to finish (though scrubbing thoughts of taking on any more exercises), it was pretty painful by the end, and more so afterwards, and is quite difficult to walk on this afternoon. Hopefully it's only badly bruised and not broken (I think there would have been more acute immediate pain if it was broken), and might settle down within a couple of days, but I suspect my training will be curtailed in at least the early part of next week.