Training Log Archive: Keith

Cwm Lickey & Mynydd Maen
a bit rough early on, then made a clanger routechoice to #4 going through all kinds of heather insteadd of round the track. Then took a good route to 7, and despite seeing it from across the valley, dropped too low into it, much to paul G's amusement, then kept on going and looped back and up .... Had a slight enforced routechoice deviation down the hill when a cow/bull charged me, but this only cost me ~ 20s and an increased HR.
Then no more big issues, just was feeling slow and walked a fair chunk of the climbs. There was some tough terraine running. had a bad route to 15, getting stuck in gorse, and doing an unesscessary small hill.

Matt C did 61ish
kinda of reminded me of the mid wales omm.

6x10s of strength work, with varying rest of 10 to 20 s.
Good instructions from coach grace.
Moving a big heavy TV to the dump.
Don't think matt and myself are ideally suited to be removal men.

MTB, ashtoncourt, 50 acre, tawpit, to try riding the bit of formed trail that i thought would be good, but i think it's more fun to run than bike, as it's not quite steep enough. Found a mint section of trail, slighty dif to what i've ridden before down through yew tree plantation to abbots pool, then round ashton court to finish. Everything is bone dry, brillant!

Flew into lulsgate, so went to burrington combe and did a loop of the mendips, beacon batch, down through some forest to valley thing by rowberrow, back up the ridge with the fort and back. Cracker day, and everything fairly quiet - probably people were at work :-)

7 x 2mins up the bremen river. Quite pleasent, people sitting out by the bank, then a massive sports complex, then some allotment type things. The true flatness is noticably easier to run on.

Warm up and warm down and inbetween. Quite a few people out running, but I suspect, given the general pace, proper runners don't reside in bremen.

Early morning run in Bremen, from centre out past train station to Burgerpark, did a bit of a loop round there. pretty quiet a few walkers with poles out. Quite a nice hyde parkish thing, Bremen redefines flat, felt pretty good.

Monday night run, round a few new tracks, and some mud. Headlight didn't work for most of it too add to the excitiment, didn't feel brillant.