Training Log Archive: Jon X

Good.

45/5 then 20/5. Tried pretty hard.

Easy round the roads.

St Andrews urban race.

Only a token error (5-10secs) on the way to #1 today so things still improving! Although to make up for it I threw in a 30sec error en route to #2 by inexplicably running up the wrong road.

Going okay after that despite the tendency for controls to be unnecessarily hidden, just not quite on top of things so 5 secs at #9 (tried wrong alley first), #11 (didn't see gap on map initially), #13 (hesitated and tried both of two equal options).

Not a great route on the longish leg to #14 (could have been shorter) and lost about 20-30secs to others, and then lost another 20-30secs at #16 when I found the right alley, decided it was wrong and then had to come back to it.

3rd in M40+ (winner Martin W 36:00) and 4th on the course (winner Helen B 35:!7). Still feel lacking in speed but not so alarmingly off the pace as last weekend. Achilles niggling quite badly though...

Event: St Andrews Weekend
 

Scottish Sprints race 1.

Read descriptions carefully at #1 and went unerringly to the place where I thought the flag was. Which was the other side of the building from where it really was. About 30secs lost.

Scrappy after that, lost time leaving #3 in the wrong direction then lost 5-10secs at all of 9,10,11,12. Almost went the wrong side of the hedge at the penultimate which was another 5 seconds gone.

Not travelling at anything like the pace of Graeme who won M50 with 13:18 including a significant error. 3rd M45, 23secs behind Martin W and 10secs behnd DaveR. Behind Dixie too :( But I did punch all the controls successfully :)

Scottish Sprints race 2 (overall is on cumulative time). Reverse start order with 30sec intervals.

Gradually my time loss at #1 is coming down, only 15-20secs this time which is the best of my last four races....

Got caught by Dave at #7 and took an iffy route to #11 trying to go a different way (needed to get away by 40secs to beat him). Caught him again and got a gap when he was confused at #15, but he ran me down easily over the last bit.

Fast and furious and good fun. Speedwork definitely needed.

Work still in the way. Not a great start to March's training.

Work in the way. Could have squeezed in a run if I had really wanted to though.

Sprint prep at the uni. Totally confused to start with. Speed of thought improved as we went on. Speed of progress did not.

All the other stuff

Gentle achilles tester from home. Sore for first couple of minutes - but bizarrely not as sore as the other one. Jogged on and things seemed to improve as calves loosened off - fingers crossed it still seems okay in the morning.