Training Log Archive: Parkino

Tankersley Middle Distance (or Parkin & Hesley Woods)
would've been a good run, but for a melt down at 25, attacked off the side of a clearing, but the angle wasn't right, didn't find the control, got confused, didn't help that I was looking for a re-entrant when the control was actually in a depression, close to 3mins gone there

I'm getting fitter and running faster and that means my technique, or my concentration and discipline has to improve

Event: British Night Championships
 

British Night Champs, Tankersley
really good course, not a bad run, missed a few paths, lots of little hesitations - hard to read the map on the run, and the control descriptions while stationary - some short hesitations where I was close, but couldn't see the flag and had to check map, and two misses, notably over the road

7 - ran fast to the fence, attacked off the corner, took a bearing, missed, very vague contours in this area, came out at the path below and looped around to find it, I may have passed quite close first time (3mins)
9 - ran along the edge of the slope and would've hit it bang on, but I got pulled left by the direction others were taking, overshot and relocated on another control (I'd sensed that one was too far), flag was at the back of a hollybush, tricky one (90secs)
14 - couldn't make up my mind which way to go, in the end I stumbled down the slope, fell, rolled and fought my way to the road and went left, must've lost a minute in that period

9th of 20, 16mins behind Dave Peel (target 10th)

wanted to finish surveying this section of Farley because next week I want to run around the bits I've mapped, checking the placement of the point features and above all to get a proper sense of the runnability, where the bramble becomes a problem and where not ...

found a nice boulder, definite control site

The Edges (White, Froggatt, Curbar
drove up to Curbar gap for my favourite run, cold, but hardly a breeze, the paths covered in a thin layer of ice, which meant I had to take care, even thought they turned out less slippy than they looked

felt a bit laboured at the start - but there's a fairly sharp climb - but then settled down, in fact, I thought I was going quite fast, however, it was about the same as last time (when I paused to take some photos!)

a gig with rhodies on Farley Moor, beyond the rhodies I found some good patches of runnable and some point features, as well as a clearing, a veg boundary, and a ditch junction

around the park a couple of times expecting to bump into Becky and hang some controls, as warm up for intervals

Hall Leys Park
intervals session: 5 x 1km, with 90secs rest: 4.09 4.07 4.09 4.15 4.13

started off steadily this time, but couldn't get much faster, heart was beating after the fourth, body wasn't really complaining though

Oker Loop
a bit sticky in the fields and lower slopes but the ridge was nice and that's where, coincidentally, I got going, didn't improve the pace much though

jog back home from the A6 roundabout

more brambles and rhodedendrons on Farley Moor, gonna be tough to map those rhodies