Training Log Archive: HWW

Event: Park Race 1: Wandle Park
 

The usual, via the Orient, Victoria Park and Cambridge Heath Road, etc.

Park Race #1, Wandle Park (4.1km, 29 controls)
Great to be back doing Park Races! Not an entirely clean run - in addition to the apparently fairly common error of not noticing the uncrossability of a particular bridge which otherwise would've offered arguably the best route to 7 (obvious uncrossable viewed retrospectively), my routes to 3, 4, 6 and 16 could all have been improved.

Otherwise I was a little hesitant on a number of other controls - possibly an extra 30 secs - 1 minute from all of these? Fortunately running felt good so I was able to make up for these errors and slips.

The usual.

Long - Splits

The usual.

Gentle jog / potter round Epping South to hang controls prior to today's CHIG event.

City Runners' Sunday long run: the foot tunnel route. Essentially jogged / ran / jogged round with another City Runners guy, easing up a fair bit near the end as he faded.

Cycle from my house to Ashton Playing Fields for Southern Athletics League fixture.

3,000m steeplechase, Southern Athletics League fixture 2, Ashton Playing Fields
Ah, a return to the connoisseur's track event. Having attended a steeplechase workshop at Parliament Hill Fields last Saturday, I hoped to be able to put into practice some of my learnings from this, and generally see what kind of time I could do these days.

It hadn't helped that last weekend's workshop had mainly involved barriers at the women's height, so the man-sized barriers took a little re-acquianting. I tried a number of practice clearances (step-overs, I've not done enough hurdle technique work to make it worth me even trying to clear them) but alas my technique turned to mush by a few laps in.

No face, shin or other body part plants, but far too much stride chopping and near-double footed splash landings in the water jump. At least I didn't have any serious competition to worry about - I lapped one guy twice, another once and was 100m from catching the other two - and all in all I'd say I'm reasonably pleased with the outcome; 6 seconds off (slower than) my PB despite truely shocking jumps, so hopefully I'll be able to get sub 10:15 or 10:10 by later in the summer, once Berlin training kicks in.

Cycle back to Leytonstone from Woodford Bridge.

The usual, via Stratford High St, Bow Flyover (north side), Bow / Mile End / Whitechapel Rd

The usual.

Took my bike to Halfords in Mile End / Stepney and bought a new tyre, which appears to have done the trick. Cycled to Stratford Westfield and then home to Leytonstone.