Training Log Archive: Izzy B

These past three days I've been experimenting with my warm up. In addition to a slow jog and then a few strides I've started doing two-ish minutes of race pace running. I think it's helped me get focused and into the flow of things.

C • WEDNESDAY WINNER 11

Open Sprint on course 2A.
Gross. I ran fast (yay) but I made poor route choices going to 7, 14, and 24, and I got stuck behind an unmapped fence on my way to 17... grr.
Shout out to E Wadz for her overall first place!

S6D - Forres Sprint - 2a - Splits

Day 2. Not as solid navigationally as Day 1. I had a really strange error on the tenth control where my distance was way off. I should have realized much earlier that I had passed the control... It was pretty tough running the first half of the course where the majority of the climb was. The second half was such a joy in the marshy area with form line hills. Everything clicked for me in that area and I could speed through eleven to the finish.

S6D - Day 2 Strathfarrar - C31 - Splits

First day of the Scottish Six Days!
I went into this race wanting to only focus on my navigation, and that's how I started off woohoo! But after nailing the first few controls I decided to pick up my speed a little bit. I was slightly off to the left on four but I was doing a good job keeping my head up and spotted the control before I got pulled too far off. Had a bobble on 10 when I ran to the wrong patch of green. I should've been looking for the contour feature the control was on, not the vegetation around it. The second half of the course was very physical, but I did a good job pushing through it and staying in contact with the map despite my oxygen-deprived brain.
I ended up 11/49ish ~7 mins back from the leader. I'm happy with that result but I will be looking for cleaner races the rest of this week.

C • 11/49 3

S6D - Day 1 Achagour - C31 - Splits

Event: WOC 2015 & Scottish 6 days
 

Traveled to Inverness today. I'm excited to spectate the sprint quali tomorrow and start competing in the six day on Sunday!

We explored Stirling Castle today and ran into the Gagarins!

Fun sprint in Stirling with Emma. We had two long legs that required some difficult decision making. Emma caught me after the longest leg. She went low and I did some extra climb which was dumb. My legs were pretty tired from our hike yesterday.

Core, glutes, hamstrings, hips (ouch), arms.