Training Log Archive: Anvil

Long run up Beverly Brook into Richmond Park and Wimbledon Common with Nics and Seb. Nice day, nice loop, good company - can't complain.
Provided some entertainment going A over T on the way back home on a slippery track.
Felt pretty good - trying to get my act together with longer runs.

C • training 4

Usual lunchtime loop. Has been raining all day and was procrastinating but got out there and churned it out.
Went up a new track which took me further up the hill at the back of the common into the 'Roman Diggings' (A couple of old piles of dirt).
Super muddy from the rain, going downhill was dodgy as and up was almost impossible at some points. Followed a new track that quickly became a bridleway. For the Australians here, bridleway roughly translates to 'open strip of forest that should be a track but is instead a shoe swallowing mudpit'
Ankle a bit sore to begin with but cleared up. No sign of shin pain. Happy.

2 bridges night run round the streets at home. This was meant to be a tester of the shins as I was still a bit paranoid about running on hard surfaces. Since I forgot Ipod I was constantly focussing on them - the 'oooh a bit sore', 'I better go back', 'I'd better rest for a couple of weeks' started in about 2 minutes even though nothing actually hurt and my pace was pretty good.
Running back through the industruially area in Wandsworth I scared a fox that scared me back and I tripped and twisted my ankle on the curb. Instantly all perceived pain in my leg was replaced by a very real shooting pain in my ankle. Spent a minute walking it off and cursing foxes then got going again and headed home - it's a little tender today but should be good for the weekend.
Shins totally fine today - that'll teach me to listen to people who aren't me.

Lunchtime run on Epsom Common. Another new track, big fan of this one - it rolls down the first hill and circles round the little fishing lake. Nice, narrow and not muddy at all - ful marks. Felt good.
I mentioned that my shins felt a little odd after my last run to my flatmates, who then convinced me I must be getting shin splits, because I 'run too much' - their words. So I got paranoid and was looking up stretching/strength training preventative techniques. Shouldn't have worries, wasn't a problem at all today. Would have thought the nice soft ground over here would be much better than the hard stuff back home anyway.

After a well deserved sleep in after an action packed Australia Day I decided to head out for a long easy ride. Discovered my new bike already had a flat (admittedly I did test the range of a hybrid bike riding through the common yesterday). So after I picked up a quality replacement tube and pump and replaced the old one, I had about an hour of light left so headed out for a quick ride to Battersea Park and back to Barnes Bridge on the north side of the river.
Still unsure the best way to get around by bike, either roads with continual traffice lights, the signed cycleways that are really indirect or the riverside paths that are swarming with people and a lot of sections you need to dismount.
One notable point I got yelled at by a man in a motorised wheelchair for not getting off my bike. As I politely pointed out I was taking up less space that the people who got off and walked beside their bikes, some guys in the pub yelled out, 'Ignore him, he's a grumpy old fu@k'. Unfortunately, he thought I said that and tried to reverse his wheelchair over me. After I politely pointed out his mistake he rode off, not before running over the foot of a Japanese tourist (I heard him mutter 'bloody foreigners' as he rolled off).

C • haha you're such a trouble ... 3