Training Log Archive: CathW

Recovery run with Hols. Better than last week, not quite a good as the week before, but not bad.
Feel much better than I could possibly have thought.

Hip sore after the jog, so worked on it hard as well as doing the other bits. Think I need to see Judith.

Event: HH 'Ace of Herts' Level B South East League Event
 

Short brown.
Wasn't sure whether to run or not, & decided to bin it at any stage the niggle turned into something worse. I was aware of it all the time, but it never bothered me, & I never went fast enough to give it the opportunity once I realised a steady speed was OK.
Beautiful, especially in the north end.
Time losses:
2-3 - on a bearing nicely, looked up, saw a vegetation boundary & followed that rather than the compass
6-7 - never saw the path cutting the corner of the roads, but probably not too bad
10-11 - allowed myself to become distracted cutting from path to path as Andy Emmerson had just overtaken me. Carrying on & up around the green would have been much better. Pleased I pulled myself back together & made my own decisions after the road crossing
18-19 - started playing bingo pits rather than simplifying and heading north east until the pits ran out
19-20 - was completely flooded out, and it threw me. Couldn't use my planned attack point & it didn't look how I expected it to, a) because it was a lake, & b) because it was open rather than wooded
21-22 - rtfm. Switched off, didn't notice I didn't have to cross the fence, got disorientated in the green & had to force myself not to be distracted by others.

On the plus side, I could have kept going for longer, having been worried about the distance, but now I need to put the speed I'm working on together witth the endurance & actually race a course, rather than just run around it. Hopefully next weekend - it'll be the last O before JK, I think.

Club training day on 2 different parts of Borden Heath.
Managed to go round the very short bearings course with Adam Methven teaching him how they work (for an 8 year old, he's a superstar & picked it up straight away), & then carried the lump that is Oscar around the tricky small paths keeping an eye on Adam, Anna & Esther & pulling them out of trouble.
Some improvement in the hip, but not alot.

L hamstring tendon (the lateral one) & lower hamstring quite tender, but the hip is more worrying.
Training day on Kingswood, but limited myself to a short, flat walk.
Carrying the tables at Runways End hurt, as did lifting anything else heavy or awkward.
Not looking brilliant for the rest of the weekend :(

Concentrating on psoas & piriformis. Right side = ouch, left hammy feels almost back to normal.

Urban score from the Turner-Lynches.
Running felt good.
Wish I'd gone via 31 on my way from 44 to 37, & couldn't find the path up to 43. Otherwise pleased with my route.
4th behind Jon H, Dave B & Andy Y. Got some scalps :)



L hamstring & R hip painful & currently being iced :(

Hmmm... an odd rest day - up to the top of Moel Fammau and back again with Dad and Hols. Cold, windy and misty on top - the cold and wind had frozen the mist into pigeon holes on the fencing - and there was no view, but it was refreshing.

4x800/400m. Only the last one felt tough... reflected in the times: 4.14, 4.10, 4.06, 4.18