Training Log Archive: Leon

Horton parkrun - 1st, 16.58

Great run, hill 3 lapper basically up one side of the park and down the other.
Sat in behind leader until halfway up 2nd hill then pushed on, though mile splits were consistent 5.35s which not bad on such a course. More evidence competition makes me go faster, obvious though it seems.
Will be interesting to see how long that time stands for...

Carlrayne - railway - Otley GC - Wharfeside path - Burley - Bleach farm - Menston

Lovely route, should do it more often
Felt very good, which helped

C • REST DAY?!! 1

A right shuffle early on, but suprisingly OK after that. River south loop.

Fearnville WEI - 16.00

All very straightforward except lost about 45s to the most tricky control at stream junction but I really should have read the map better. Bimbled across said stream as well. Otherwise fast and furious.

Shadowing Charlotte

High level bridge loops

Blaydon Race - 28th, 30:08

Great to be back doing this after a year off, always enjoyable

A one place improvement and a 17s improvement on 2013, though course has changed slightly but think it made little to no difference.

So pleased, but think I could have dipped under 30 had I felt better in the first mile (felt terrible, mainly due to 15 mins in start pen as start delayed but they wouldn't let us over the timing mats), and slightly more kahunas in the final 500m when my heart sunk on turning the final corner and seeing how far away it was.

But in the middle section, paced it well and kept my head when others were losing it. Next year sub 30...

Nice and easy with the Cad

Colton Urban - 2nd, 31.20

As the only person to plan here before had a slight advantage so decided not to look at map first to keep things fresh. Think the area works a lot better in this format than the score I planned.

Speed was good, though I was worried had overcooked it after 10mins or so, shouldn't really have worried.
Didn't spot left route choice to #2, didn't read CD to #6 and didn't spot route choice to #7 off road, so lost about 40s in total there
Main, at least a minute mistake was the long leg #11-#12
Went back past cricket pitch, missed gate and headed for car park, had to trn around, then should have kept south and straight on path but headed up past 1 but for some reason turned right on hitting main road, think I imagined path through strip of trees was this way, kept running blindly expecting to see it, never appeared, no way through anyway up here, so had to run all the way round to the top and back into open area from NE.
Bloody stupid, prob 300-400m added on and at least a minute binned.
My route into #26 from the south which I thought was quite clever also wasn't.

2:20 down on Jamie but could have been less than a minute which would have been OK