Training Log Archive: AC

A surprisingly good race after such a crap run yesterday, and despite the lingering cold. Ina complete contrast to yesterday, it was cold and raining today. But I got into the race quite quickly and didn't feel too bad for the first couple of controls and even started to enjoy running in the only nice bit of forest between controls 2 and 3 - it was the only white bit of forest all course and was a beautiful clean forest on the side of a hill. Helps that I spiked the control nicely after a long hillside traverse. The rest of the course was through either scattered trees with large clumps of gorse, or green forest. Managed to get around in good shape, ran well, made about 4.30 worth of errors, including 2 mins on one control when i took the wrong route choice and then bailed and doubled back to go a much more sensible circuitous route. Lesson from that little error was to keep it simple. Didier caught up 4 mins on me towards the end (around 13) and we exchanged lead for the rest of the course, although he got away from me towards the end when I decided to be cute and try a different route choice for a short leg. He beat me to the finish by 20 secs.

Overall, a very satisfying run. Came in 5th in H50, with Didier winning in 56.09, and only three minutes off third place. Nice result after yesterday's debacle.

French Relay Champs. Shocking race. Hot, felt completely wiped out, no energy, everything ached. Effects of the cold I guess. Very forgettable run.

Buggar. Have caught a cold. Throat really sore, heavy headed (more than usual), nose starting to drip. Great timing!

Easy run. Really struggled to get going - still asleep, and full of food from last night's dinner. Not a great run, but ticked it off the list ...

Still not getting enough sleep. Need to get to bed earlier. Anyway, struggled up this morning and had an easy ride around the Bois. Glorious spring morning - sunny, slightly cool, with the promise of a warm day. Felt fine without exerting myself too much on the ride. This morning ride in the Bois is quite hard to turn into a tough ride as it is so flat and the paths so good. Perhaps will go over to the Parc de St Cloud if the gates open early enough.

Felt like crap this morning - very heavy and tired after the long weekend in Rome and a diet of pasta and gelato. But struggled out the door and had a go at an easy interval set of 10 x 1min H / 1 min E. Pace of between 4.05 - 4.20 was not startling, but the effort was there. Left knee sore.