Training Log Archive: redrider

another try on fells. long run from Glenridding up to Helvellyn, then Lower Man, White Side and back to Glenridding along the valley. it rained a bit when I went off but turned out a beautiful day. just fantastic to be able to make another round on fells this weekend after yesterday's nightmare. good day today and happily surprised how good my legs were this morning! last week it took 3-4 days to recover from a fell race. improvement!

Howtown fell race in disastrous weather. One hell of a fight against gale winds, horrendous rain and thick fog. First checkpoint at Loadpot Hill. Off from a field by the Outward Bound Centre at Howtown, up along a small goat path, crawling up a steep ascent through brackens, up to the ridge, facing the gale winds, fighting against the wind and horizontal rain while plodding towards the summit, then further up to High Raise against the wind and the rain. Never saw the checkpoint and lost my location after the summit. Didn't know when to turn towards The Knott. Fog was too thick to see anything. Ran too far south together with two blokes and climbed a bit up towards High Street before realizing that we had missed the turning point, back to north with compass, hit the Knott, down to valley, stony path, Satura crags, wind got harder again, struggled to keep up, down to Angle tarn, up to pikes ahead and towards Place Fell, climb up to the summit, further north-east along the fell, zigzag down through brackens, cross the river, towards Hallin Fell, it's the last climb, then same route back to the rode and we're home. I doubted I would make it. Really horrible, scary experience. Relieved that I got home in one peace. Our extra loop to High Street took some 10-15min, hard to estimate how much faster it would have been in good weather. Can't tell but assume it's a lot. Results: http://fellrunner.org.uk/results.php?id=2108

easy evening ride with Sami. lovely route & weather!

easy run around draycote water with some short sprints

run to Rugby school for interval session with the triathlon club and then warm-up with them to the park where we did the intervals

4x(3min+2min) intervals with 3min recoveries on grass. 3min easy pace (5:15 per km) out, followed by 2min hard pace (3:30 per km) back the same route. 4 reps. fun!

run back home from the intervals. pretty tired.

easy trail run. legs much better after loosening off in the pool. still not quite sure whether to run the road race this night or not.. #harddecisions

cycling to Draycote Water

OD event Draycote Water. nice & easy tempo session. pretty simple orienteering, a bit of grass and nettles slowing the pace.

cycling back from Draycote

easy morning jog. quads better but still not able to run.

triathlon club swim training including intervals and sprints (4x125m (25m moderate + 25m hard + 25m sprint) + 6x25m + 6x50m) and warm up/down. went there with Amy. we were between two ability groups and couldn't decide with which lane to train. first we joined group 3 but realized that we were slightly faster and changed then to group 2 (after the coach had advised us to do so) but they were faster than we and we were just dying when trying to keep up with them. oh my it was hard to try to swim faster than you can...so after a while we were just gasping out of breath and changed back to lane 3. great training anyway and a lot harder than I had thought. 25m sprints were fun but 125m intervals just horrible!

quads even worse today. could only do swimming.