Training Log Archive: Rich

ITW. Feeling really achy when I got up but my legs felt comfortable once I got going.

Loop back home from the station.

JK Tropht Relay @ Newtyle

2nd Leg. Went off in 9th in towards the back of a fair sized pack. Started to make my way through it as I slogged up the hill to the first 2 controls. By 6 I was all alone but pushed on knowing that the top 3 teams had already formed a lead after the first leg. Caught sight of Schorah climbing up to 12 and tried to close the gap from there to the end. Only mistakes was nearly missing 16 on a spur but looked up just as I was passing it so only lost a couple of seconds and having to go around some crap on the way in to 10. Set Poo Boy off just a few seconds down on ShUOC but Kris on fresher legs put in a good run to widen the gap. Glad to finish with a good run anyway.

What started reasonably turned into a bit of a poor performance. After hiiting the first 3 confidently I decided to change my plan to 4 and run right through the white forest rather than going left and just following the re-enterant. Hit the wromng re-entrant and lost 1min relocating. Had a wobble at 7 too (~50-60s) but by 8 I was running with Nails (3min man who had recaught me after losing time at 4). I was still feeling reasonably confident until I lost contact going to 12 and had no idea whether I had overshot or undershot the control. It took me a while to relocate and ended losing 4mins and hit the control at the same time as Jagor.

scappy on the next 3 and was caught by Doug coming out of 14. Was just behind Doug up to 17 but think we took different routes to 18. I took the lower more undulating route. Lost a bit of time at 19 (strange control) but was clean until 23 when I started shedding time through tiredness I think. Poor route and execution to 24 lost me ~50s and then lost 1min + each on the downhill legs at the end into 26 and 27. In all the errors totalled ~12mins which is just far too much. Running wise it was decent although I did noticably slow a notch after around control 19/20.

1 - Splits

On the WU map. Didn't quite go as I would have liked.

JK Middle @ Dunalistair

Felt like I was in a good place at the start but missed number 1. Started on a bearing but that got ditched through the green, saw a control and ran but it wasn't mine. Quickly relocated and found the control limiting the mistake to only 40-50s. Headless chickened in the direction of 2 with only half a plan. Through the green but then everything fitted and got the control with only 20s or so lost through poor direction. Got my act together from this point and started to flow nicely and staying nicely in map contact. Only small wobbles came when I lost map contact through the denser forest section. Feeling really sluggish after the spectator control but held it together of than poor line on 15 lost my 20s when I hit the track and had to relocate. Solid performance without being anything special but it was nice to get that after yesterdays disaster and no heart problems. :)

1 - Splits

Event: JK 2012
 

Warm up around the field and couple of times, drills etc. Feeling good and light.

JK Sprint @ Livingston

Oh dear. HR data is right (normal max is ~190). I started feeling my HR pounding in the -1 start box and my HR monitor indicated my HR was shooting up. I thought at the stage it would be ok but as it turned out it clearly wasn't.

Felt sluggish almost from the start but I was putting in every bit of effort I could and breathing very heavily (at VO2 Max). I pushed on kind of hoping I wasn't going as slowly as I thought I was. I actually had a fairly clean run through the housing estate bar a couple of hesitations and a rubbish route to 5. My one and only significant mistake was forgetting to run back down the steps on the other side of the bridge which lost me around 40s. Chepls over took me (2mins) close to the end and at this point I felt like I was running backwards. On finishing I was announced in 45th position, shameful, but it was then that I knew just how bad it had been. I found out at download I had missed 9, which was a bit of a releif tbh. Had I got that it would have been another 50s or so on my time.

I spoke to Dr Sarah R afterwards, I was pretty worried about what happened. Seams that the sports drink I had before I race (High 5 electrolyte tab dissolved in water) had which contained caffeine when mixed with adrenalin really did not agree with my heart and gave me severe pulpetations. (I can't remember the technical terms Sarah told me?) Basically my heart was running very inefficiently and preventing the oxygen being delivered to my muscles. Hense why I ran slowly but spent 18.5mins at VO2Max; a rather extreme way of running a VO2 session. I shouldn't be a problem in furture if I avoid all caffiene but will get myself to the Dr's anyway to check things out.

Not a good way to start the JK anyway.

Gave it half an hour and went for a jog to see how I felt and a WD. Felt great again, like when warming up.

Run ITW. Blitzerdous conditions but all slushy underfoot - horrible.