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Training Log Archive: Ollie

In the 31 days ending Mar 31, 2010:

	activity	#	time	miles		km		+m
	Cycle Commuting	32	12:54:02	168.97	(4:35)	271.93	(2:51)
	Cycling	16	12:34:25	164.05	(4:36)	264.01	(2:51)
	Orienteering	4	3:47:33	17.77	(12:48)	28.6	(7:57)	585	25c
	Field Surveying	2	3:45:00	6.52		10.5
	Road Running	3	3:20:45	25.18	(7:58)	40.52	(4:57)	65
	Score Orienteering	1	1:03:10	7.42	(8:31)	11.94	(5:17)
	Total	58	37:24:55	389.91		627.5		650	25c
	[1-5]	56	33:39:55
averages - sleep:6.5

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Wednesday Mar 31, 2010 #

12 PM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 25:51 [2] 8.35 km (3:06 / km)

Hit the lunchtime crowd (joggers on the canal and noticeably heavier traffic on the roads) - bad news. Actually, literally hit at one point - oops.

10 PM

Cycling (Back Home) 29:15 [2] 10.68 km (2:44 / km)

Via Fleet Street.

Tuesday Mar 30, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 24:11 [2] 8.37 km (2:53 / km)

7 PM

Cycling (Back Home) 29:49 [3] 10.17 km (2:56 / km)

Stopping off at Broadgate Tower.

Monday Mar 29, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 24:51 [2] 8.62 km (2:53 / km)

10 PM

Cycling (Back Home) 40:56 [3] 14.09 km (2:54 / km)

Roundabout way home, via Tooley Street to do a bit of field survey verification.

Sunday Mar 28, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycling (To/from Event) 45:00 [2] 17.0 km (2:39 / km)

To/from Snaresbrook, via the Eastway. Time/distance approximate.

12 PM

Orienteering race (Local Event) 58:17 [3] *** 7.3 km (7:59 / km) +65m 7:39 / km
shoes: Adidas Swoop 2s

Running the Brown (top) course at a CHIG event at Epping Forest South - the scraggly, rather green and bitty section south of the main section of Epping Forest. Having said that, it was a pleasant enough - although very muddy - run, and there were enough technical legs (and well hidden controls) to trip me up in a couple of places.

Any marshy ground marked on the map was actually a lake, and pits were generally full of water! I started right at the end, and grabbed a finisher's map as there weren't any maps for my course left - apparently the map had been recycled once before already! I was entered for a shorter course, but was very glad to be running the longest one in the end, so that I could get a decent distance run.

Pottered around, never really picking up speed - I spend most of the time concentrating on avoiding watery and boggy ground, to avoid getting a new set of blisters - the ones I got from my wet run four weeks ago still haven't healed. Ended up finishing in a big grouping of people - although I finished 16th of 42, I would have finished 9th if I had picked up two minutes (which would have been very simple to do!)

Actual distance run was 9.6km.

3 PM

Field Surveying (Olympic Park) 1:15:00 [0] 10.5 km (7:09 / km)

A long, slow cycle around the perimeter fence of the Olympic Park, taking pics and estimating building locations for OSM - didn't really get much useful information though. Got some pics of impressive/oppressive security fencing. Time/distance approximate.

Saturday Mar 27, 2010 #

8 AM

Cycling warm up/down (To/from Event) 44:05 [2] 14.53 km (3:02 / km)

Normal (i.e. very different) routes out and back.

9 AM

Road Running (FPTT) 20:45 [4] 5.0 km (4:09 / km) +65m 3:54 / km
ahr:181 max:198 slept:6.0 shoes: Adidas Adistar Salvations

Finsbury parkrun. Very slow start as legs felt awful (no time to stretch or warm up, again, as arrived in the park a little too close to the off.) Gradually sped up throughout the race, but well off the pace overall - no kms below 4 minutes. Despite this, I felt like I was working hard after the first km. Sprint finish to overtake someone who had (slightly) cut a corner earlier. HR shot up for this. Finished 16th.

Friday Mar 26, 2010 #

11 AM

Note

Another puncture coming in!

6 PM

Cycling (To/from Event) 49:06 [2] 16.1 km (3:03 / km)

First commute back on brand new back tire - another Conti Gatorskin. Via Poplar for street-o planning meeting. Busy during the rush hour. On the way home from Poplar, went via the Limehouse Cut, floating towpath, Bow Locks and the Olympic Stadium/Greenway. Going out, passed the 7000km mark - I've had the bike now for just over 10 months.

Thursday Mar 25, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 25:22 [2] 8.33 km (3:03 / km)

10 PM

Note

Puncture on way home!

Wednesday Mar 24, 2010 #

9 PM

Cycling (From Event) 33:18 [3] 12.05 km (2:46 / km)

Started raining lightly about 5 minutes in. Got heavier and heavier, absolutely pouring by the end. Nasty.

Tuesday Mar 23, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 24:09 [3] 8.3 km (2:55 / km)

Monday Mar 22, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 25:21 [2] 8.55 km (2:58 / km)

One of those annoying strong headwinds - that really slows you down but doesn't make the trees sway.

11 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 23:08 [3] 9.19 km (2:31 / km)

Sunday Mar 21, 2010 #

3 PM

Cycling 1:09:22 [2] 23.11 km (3:00 / km)

To work, then to London Bridge to do some mapping, and finally home. The towpath was, as expected, extremely busy. I then got very lost trying to follow the diversion around the closed bit, due to some atrociously poor signing.

4 PM

Field Surveying (City of London Map) 2:30:00 [0]

Around More London and Shad Thames.

Saturday Mar 20, 2010 #

Event: Huntingdon Town Race

11 AM

Cycling (To/from station) 1:06:46 [2] 20.88 km (3:12 / km)

To/from Finsbury Park and from Huntingdon station to/from an event near there.

12 PM

Orienteering race (Urban Race) 45:27 [4] *** 6.7 km (6:47 / km)
shoes: Adidas Adistar Salvations

WAOC Huntingdon Town Race, part of the Nopesport Urban League. After a short loop through the town centre, it was out to a modern housing estate on the edge of the town for much of the race, a series of legs through very "sprint-style" terrain with lots of alleyways and right angles. Rained a bit in the second half, and a bit gusty in places.

Actually ran 11.5km and took 55 minutes, and the actual straight-line course distance was 7.3km, but two legs got voided, and I accidentally did the "town centre" loop twice, mistakenly believing I had failed to punch the control at the end of a road-crossing timeout. The results computer deducted this second loop, presumably because it considered me to be in the second road-crossing time-out which was the reverse of the first. Also there was no set max-length for the timeout. So, I didn't get penalised for doing the extra loop, except that I was more tired for the rest of the course - and don't have any split times for the last few controls due the restricted storage space on my old-type SI card.

Friday Mar 19, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 24:37 [2] 8.47 km (2:54 / km)

Now having to divert around *two* sections of closed towpath!

11 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 22:25 [3] 8.55 km (2:37 / km)

Thursday Mar 18, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 22:49 [3] 8.36 km (2:44 / km)

6 PM

Cycling (Back Home) 30:29 [2] 10.13 km (3:01 / km)

A lot busier in the rush hour. Via Hackney Wick for a meeting.

Wednesday Mar 17, 2010 #

9 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 25:05 [2] 8.38 km (3:00 / km)

Canal access onto Danbury Street was closed.

10 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 26:12 [2] 9.34 km (2:48 / km)

Tuesday Mar 16, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 23:59 [2] 8.29 km (2:54 / km)

10 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 20:55 [3] 8.51 km (2:27 / km)

Definitely got some energy back 48 hours after my long run. This is, I think, my fastest ever commute home. Tore through Dalston and Hackney, in particular.

Monday Mar 15, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 26:46 [2] 8.27 km (3:14 / km)

Feeling pretty dead-to-the-world after yesterday's long run.

7 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 24:13 [2] 8.59 km (2:49 / km)

Sunday Mar 14, 2010 #

5 PM

Road Running long 2:40:35 [3] 30.52 km (5:16 / km)
slept:10.0 shoes: Adidas Adistar Salvations

Through Victoria Park, across Mare Street and along the canal, past the Towpath Cafe and The Narrow Boat to Danbury Road. Then back along hte canal, across Mare Street, back onto the canal at Old Ford Locks, down to Limehouse Marina, along through Limehouse and Wapping, past Tobacco Dock to St Katherine's Dock, under Tower Bridge and past the Tower of London.

Then back along to Limehouse via Wapping High Street, along Limehouse Cut, with a small diversion, along the Floating Towpath (dark), past Bow Locks (impressive) and Three Mills (beautiful building!) to the Bow Flyover. Then, a longer diversion off the towpath due to Crossrail and Olympic works and past the Olympic Stadium and another, unrelated set of locks also called Old Ford Locks, and around opposite Omega Point, with more great Olympic Park views. Yeah, it would make more sense on a map.

Was expecting to feel pretty tired at this point, but was feeling great and pace wasn't slackening. Problem though - should have run 29km at this point and had only done 26km according to the GPS. So, instead of ducking back home past the Top O' The Morning, I went along the Hertford Union Canal, into the open part of Victoria Park (it was pitch black at this point), and around back along Victoria Park Road.

Had to do a few hundred metres more to warm done as legs felt very rubbery as soon as I stopped, but don't feel bad at all - could have easily done another 5km. Didn't take any water or food on the run, the conditions were very pleasant - still and dry, sunny, about 10 degrees.

5km splits (target was 25:00-26:15 the whole way, i.e. 5:00-5:15 kms)
25:17
25:31
26:06
25:59
26:37
28:00

Saturday Mar 13, 2010 #

8 AM

Cycling warm up/down (To/from Event) 50:20 [3] 18.65 km (2:42 / km)

Four seperate cycles - home to Finsbury Park, then to UCL, then to King's Cross, and finally back to UCL.

9 AM

Road Running race (1925) 19:25 [5] 5.0 km (3:53 / km)
shoes: Adidas Adistar Salvations

Finsbury parkrun. PB for the course. Pushed hard on the hills and overtook people on them. Strong finish as someone (who I'd overtaken on the final hill) was right behind at the finish. Finished 6th.

Lucozade were handing out free snacks and nutrition advice at the end - bonus.

Splits:
3:51 (down+long up)
4:00 (down+short up)
3:49 (down)
3:50 (long-up+down)
3:55 (short up)

10 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 23:18 [2] 8.5 km (2:44 / km)

Friday Mar 12, 2010 #

10 PM

Cycling (Back Home) 19:33 [2] 6.9 km (2:50 / km)

Back from Smithy's.

Thursday Mar 11, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 21:53 [3] 8.28 km (2:39 / km)

9 PM

Cycle Commuting (back Home) 24:16 [2] 8.83 km (2:45 / km)

Wednesday Mar 10, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 23:53 [3] 8.42 km (2:50 / km)

Slightly longer than normal due to diversion on Victoria Park Road - due to a cyclist who was sadly killed in a collision with a lorry a few hours earlier.

11 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 23:25 [3] 8.55 km (2:44 / km)

Tuesday Mar 9, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 22:04 [3] 8.27 km (2:40 / km)
shoes: Specalized MTB Cleats

Put the hammer in coming down Pentonville Road. Max 52.6km/h!

1 PM

Cycling (To/from Event) 20:58 [3] 6.96 km (3:01 / km)

More taxi-baiting to/from Ossies. Route out/back varied a lot thanks due to the various one-way systems in central London.

7 PM

Cycling warm up/down (To Event) 48:30 [3] 19.5 km (2:29 / km)
shoes: Specalized MTB Cleats

To Twickenham from work. I've got this route (to Richmond, at least) down to a tee, now. It's fast and straight.

8 PM

Score Orienteering race (Street Race) 1:03:10 [4] ** 11.94 km (5:17 / km)
ahr:165 max:189 slept:6.0 shoes: Adidas Adistar Salvations

SLOW Street-O in Twickenham. Once again, poor time management meant I was late back - although a least a minute of the delay was caused by trying to frantically count gnomes in a garden. I only found 7 despite my best efforts - the correct answer was 10.

HRavg proves I really wasn't putting enough effort into it. A pretty poor result in the end - I was out of the top 10.

11 PM

Cycling (Back Home) 1:19:29 [2] 28.55 km (2:47 / km)
shoes: Specalized MTB Cleats

From Twickenham, back home via Clapham.

Monday Mar 8, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 22:14 [3] 8.28 km (2:41 / km)

11 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 23:46 [3] 8.4 km (2:50 / km)

Sunday Mar 7, 2010 #

10 AM

Orienteering (Varsity Match) 47:51 [4] *** 5.8 km (8:15 / km) +190m 7:05 / km
shoes: Adidas Adistar Salvations

Relays at Polly Joke - dunes and sheep fields (and great views) just north of Penhale Sands. Ran 7.3km. Very bad mistake at the last control - massively blew and otherwise clean run and wasted five minutes.

Saturday Mar 6, 2010 #

1 PM

Orienteering (Varsity Match) 1:15:58 [4] **** 8.8 km (8:38 / km) +330m 7:16 / km
25c slept:4.0 shoes: Adidas Adistar Salvations

Penhale Sands in North Cornwall. One big mistake, generally quite smooth apart from that (did visit 6 on the way to 5, by mistake, but not a big deal in the end).

Friday Mar 5, 2010 #

1 PM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 25:39 [2] 8.31 km (3:05 / km)

Heavily laden with rucksack for the weekend in Cornwall.

Thursday Mar 4, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 22:00 [3] 8.23 km (2:40 / km)

9 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 28:31 [2] 9.07 km (3:09 / km)

Supermarket loop.

Wednesday Mar 3, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 22:02 [3] 8.27 km (2:40 / km)

6 PM

Cycling (To/from Event) 1:37:29 [3] 34.71 km (2:49 / km)

From work to Wandsworth for a meeting, then later home. Got very lost on the way there - through I was heading for Richmond, so ended up at Holland Park, then got very lost in West London as I tried to get back on track. Very cold.

Tuesday Mar 2, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 23:49 [3] 8.26 km (2:53 / km)

9 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 27:02 [2] 9.07 km (2:59 / km)

Via Morning lane.

Monday Mar 1, 2010 #

11 AM

Cycle Commuting (In to Work) 24:17 [2] 8.28 km (2:56 / km)

Back on my regular bike - feels a lot slower than the carbon-fibre I was cycling to work on last week :-(

8 PM

Cycle Commuting (Back Home) 25:59 [2] 8.44 km (3:05 / km)

Another puncture - about half-way home. Fixed it in situ but broke valve. Have now had three punctures in the last three days I've used the bike.

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