KWL Arant Haw today, 4.8m/1945'
Probably one of the best races of the series this. I've had a week of no work so i felt pretty good, but still had to go steady as i can't remember when the last time i hit a big climb was. Runnable hills don't prepare you for what this race serves up, you need to be out racing every week hitting big climbs. I nearly came a cropper at the foot of Winder, legs went to jelly and i landed on a locked out knee joint somehow.
Last edited by mr brightside; 18-04-2016 at 07:49 PM.
FWIW my Garmin recorded 1800+ feet; and I am inclined (Ha!) to believe it.Originally Posted by mr brightside
Last edited by Graham Breeze; 17-04-2016 at 09:01 PM.
You're right, the calendar data is in error. MMap says 1945 feet and you know what, it felt like a lot more than 1300!
Bike ride into work today, 8m each way, some kneecap pain showed up in the last mile or so. It's the 4 days of walking around and kneeling down about the factory that does it, it wears me down gradually. I need out of front line engineering really.
Dale Head Dash yesterday, 2m/1300'
Hard climb has always been a bit of a problem area in the past, all the old problems keep coming back. With 2 successive weekends of it under my belt i'm feeling better than i thought i might, but i do have an ankle eversion injury from the sheer roughness of the drop off Dale Head yesterday. It might be a good time to run a 10k trail and get a target time for the Leeds 10, i'll try for a fartlek midweek too.
I dropped the midweek run because i wanted to feel fresh for a 10k time trial today. My legs were still sore from Dale Head anyway and my back was giving me some grief.
Today's run was 2 laps of Swinsty reservoir which works out to 10.4km. I completed this in an embarrasing 44.25 which nearly blew me off my feet when i checked the watch, i was stone cold certain of being in the thirties and i'm not quite sure what's gone wrong. What i know is that i was struggling to find a constant pace; the smallest rises would throw a spanner in the works and i'd end up blowing too much and actually got diaphragm cramp several times. When i ran the dam on lap 2 the optimum pace was much easier to find with it being totally flat. The average for this effort is about 42mins for 10k. I'm not sure if to blame myself or the terrain; i could always try not using a mechanical stopwatch as i think they have to be marine certified to be accurate when they're jigging around, and this is just a plastic wind-up job.
Ride into work today, 8m each way, back awful. The bike seems to be working better for me now so long as i use the correct taping setup on my knees. I've tried replicating it using straps or electrical tape, but it doesn't work, it has to be done the one way and that's the only way it'll work. I'd like to be doing this once a week ideally, but bad weather will stop me, older bikes suffer badly from getting wet and caked in crap and i don't run new bikes. I also don't like riding in the rain. It would be nice to get it going for the summer, i feel my fitness would benefit from be burying myself on Kirkstall Rd once a week.
Now upgraded to 'back f*$!ed'. Off work with some sort of disc problem again, not good for my training schedule for the Leeds 10k.
Being mostly supine for the time being has enabled me to get the first 60pgs of Studmarks on the Summits done and dusted. The short section on footwear was a bit of an eye-opener, i don't know how those who chose to run in flat soled gym pumps ever got out of it alive. There is also a sentence detailing the diet of a guides racer, which is described as consisting mostly of: beef, chicken, eggs, port and brandy. Imagine pitching that to UK Cycling.
Deary me, bit QAH...Midweek XC tonight 2.5m/290', felt very flat and slow, i think a crap time is on the cards for the Leeds 10k.
First 5k Parkrun this morning, Bramley Parkrun, came 4th but faded badly on the penultimate lap and lost a place having lost touch with the leaders a lap earlier. I ran 20.04 and need to shave a minute off that at the least. Unfortunately the whole park stank of doggy doos; the mowers had been round at some time in the week and churned up all the barker's eggs that people hadn't picked up, it was really quite unpleasant.
I'm aiming to run this every week, this pushes me to 3 sessions a week, but i think it's time it happened.
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