Training Log Archive: Leon

Nope

Swansea Bay parkrun - 3rd, 18.07
Stag wkend - v.hungover. Quite impressed I managed this fast

Ilkley Moor O - Nice and controlled though could have been more difficult, still pleased not to balls it up
Ran home across the moor, quite a struggle, views and nice weather kept me going

10 x 500 (60s) ave 1:35, solo, not bad. could have done with company

St Aidans loop, cold and windy. Pace solid. Good group

Bramley Fall Sprint - clean!

2k, 1k, 1k (3) 5 x 400 (75)

6.21,3.08,3.04,72,71,70,69,68

Good

Blackpool parkrun - 2nd, 17.44

Completed the north!

Salford 10k - dire.

4 x 5 mins (2)

Tough solo, even more so in that wind. Averaged 5.35 pace

Continuing the theme of going uphill and into the wind, parked up at cow and calf and ran west across the side of the moor towards Addingham. Very pleasant though was feeling harder than I would have liked. Much easier on the way back though my line across from White Wells wasn't the best.

East Morton - Silsden - Addingham - Bolton Abbey - Nesfield - Askwith - Otley

Tootled along, struggling, uphill and into the wind to Silsden, 11 miles in the first hour. Once I got off the hills and out of the wind I was moving well. Lovely day for it.

National 12 Stage - leg 7, 30.07

Running on my own rather than leg 1 worked a lot better than Blackpool.
Pleased, but would have been very nice to break 30, and given that the bit after 5 miles I apparently ran at sub 5 pace, makes me think that I should have done. But it was very warm. Coped well with the out and back this year, stayed calm.

Run and strides

Going well for minimal effort

Becketts Park and canal with Susan discussing needy runners.

Track - 10 x 70 (70)
Windy so hard to judge but felt like there was a bit more zip in my legs

Out and back round Ladybower. Pleasant

Though walked 10 miles instead.

Tried to make my warm up quicker, in an effort to make going fast seem easier, but just couldn't manage it. Sounds soft, I know.

Erddig parkrun - 2nd, 18.03

Very unpleasant experience, and I don't mean the gloomy rain that persisted throughout, making the off road sections muddy.
Was in a great battle for the win, initially thought the chap had gone off too fast as I caught him after 800m, but the pace maintained and I was on the limit from 1k on, managed to get a slight gap approaching halfway but didn't push on through the twisty woods fearing the slightly and then severley uphill return section so had him hot on my tail in the final mile as we ran back up the road to the house, which was passing 4k and wide enough for a car and bike to pass.
Yet the runners coming the other way decided to run 6 abreast across the whole path, despite me and 2nd running single file hard left on the path, people still had to take evasive action last minute, best course of action is to stick to your line and let them get out of your way when face on. All of a sudden a young girl has veered out right into my path, couldn't avoid a collision, thankfully managed to slow and turn enough not to knock her over, but bought to a stand. Encouraged to get going again by my rival I just manage to get on his tail but my legs never get going again and he pulls away on the last hill, as he might have done anyway to be fair, and I trotted in 10s down by the end.
We had a nice chat and discuss why people can't keep left as instructed. I then jog to find Charlotte, when some bloke going the other way asks me if I was the man who knocked a girl over. I keep going but he keeps on at me, so I turn around and tell him that isn't what happened and if he'd like to argue to point, I'd be happy to. He tells me I pushed the girl over and left her in tears, and squares up to me telling me he isn't a person to argue with. I explain there was nothing I could do to avoid a collision and people should keep left. Thankfully I was able to call on the winner to testify there was nothing I could do, but he isn't happy. But then neither am I. I jog off to avoid inflamming things further.
I wait for the girl and her dad to finish and ask if they are OK, the Dad isn't happy initially and says I should have stopped to make sure she is OK. It's hard to not seem a bastard when I say I was in the zone and just kept racing the other chap. To her credit, the Race director re-iteraites that all runners should keep left, and I reiterate I had nowhere to run thanks to everyone else taking up the whole path. A report will be filed to parkrun HQ. Things calm down and things are left amicably, though who our initial accuser was I have no idea. I suspect the girl may have been away from her Dad and said I had pushed her over, and this man has taken that as gospel and run back to the finish to find the villian, me. But that is guesswork.
Highly unfortunate of course but I don't know what else I could do, but I am going to be naturally wary of similar situations in future.