Training Log Archive: RobB

Brimham rocks badge event. Wanted to take it steady and enjoy myself. Really enjoyed it (although felt knackered), but kept switching off on long legs. It was a good reminder of some of the things that I need to work in the next few weeks.

Steady warm up and down. Spent a lot of the W/U cheering on the girls and sizing up the gradient of the steep climb. The conclusions were that the girls did really well and that the hill was steep but not 60% steep.

National cross country. Felt pretty nervous / excited on the morning of the race - knew I was in good shape and wanted to improve on my position of last year (87th) but that the competition would be tougher as the venue was so central.I know you shouldn't set goals that you have no controls over, but I couldn't get away from the fact that I wanted my result to improve!


Really pleased with my overall result - 69th - but my race was by no means perfect.

I started really strongly and was up in 46 - 48 th about half way round. I then proceeded to die a horrible death and just tried to hang on for last 15 minutes. Not pleasant, but effective on this occasion!

Results here: http://englishcrosscountry.co.uk/images/pdf/Senior...

(I was not entered for some reason so had to run D Newbold)

C • Nice position 1

Easy running to gym and back where I did some stretching.

Warm up / down.

4 x 2:00 efforts up and down the parks.

Steady run up the parks. Legs felt a bit dead from yesterday.

Run to track from work, then home again.

Short reps tonight - and found them tough 8x500 off equal recovery. Was pushed by Scott and Armand all the way - really don't have their kind of raw speed.

Run home from gym; did 5 x hill sprints for good measure.