Training Log Archive: Ollie

VM Relay, in the Park Hill Estate and the Quayside area of Sheffield. Mixed team with a CUOC guy and Helen G. Was last leg, had a long course and started only a couple of seconds behind the leading group (although their last leg runner may have had the short or medium course). Finished 3rd, half a second behind 2nd place (a girl that I was too gentlemanly to bump out of the way at the line!) and three minutes behind first place. An interesting, hilly course. Got screwed on one leg by a control circle that wasn't cut.

Event: Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Match
 

VM in Tankersley, near Sheffield. Running course A (11.3km). Pleasant, warm day and nice terrain - generally visible with low brambles. Made a few mistakes, including some poor route choices (one compounded by a leg line that was not cut, causing me to run along the wrong path.) Just beaten by IanW, who got the First Aluminus cup - so close!

My fastest commute in ever? The tailwind (normally a headwind) into work, this week, has been resulting in some high-speed commutes in - and very slow times coming home. The time is, as ever, moving time only.

The usual, but not really pushing it - wanted a slightly easier run, + maybe not recovered fully from the weekend. Cold, and a little damp underfoot.