Training Log Archive: Angus Dobson

Run with Rob brown, last long run before K2B! fairly long, planned between 1hr30 and 2hrs long, but the weather got worse and we got slightly lost which was worrying as we were freezing. we were originally going to start in ulverston and run over kirby but rob drove us up there and we started next to the hills. route took us round the quarries, up to the windmills, down and across the road to subberthwaite, then a tiny loop and back over again. Felt ok at the pace, but quads were slightly sore on the uphills with massive headwinds and a bit a rain. Time includes most of the rest and walking but not about 5-10 minutes of stopping etc. I had to nail the last 3k so i didnt get too cold! was freezing!

wasn't too bothered as i was in the B team, shocked when jeffo came back 3rd, 40s off lead, 20s off second, so i decided to nail it. Nearly caught owens to one but made a 30s mistake going the wrong way round the hill, silly extra climb. had chris in sight but a different gaffle and hesitated slightly on 2(10s) the rest was fine, side by side with owens from about ctrl 6, still navigating by myself though. went off line a couple of times but managed to flow through controls quite well, could of ran slightly faster down the hills, ran well up the hills. Came back in 2nd place, 45 seconds ahead of owens( i had 150m less), 30 behind syo. Unfortunately we had malachy on last leg because our silly relay co ordinater put me and sam in the B team! he'll sure regret that, malachy nearly managed to hold will off! we were 30seconds off 3rd place, could of been unbelievable... on a perfect run i would be pushing for 21:15-21:30, pretty pleased with speed, 4th fastest leg time on the m18 relay

C • You were moving quite well ... 12

Warm up with Adam and chris, warm down with Will, round the field.

Never realised i was comfortabley second at 5,6 and 3rd at 8! slightly annoyed with stupid little errors

Event: BOC 2012
 

ran the first 6 controls pretty well with only about a 20s mistake on 6 as i was slightly too high, number 7 i took a bearing for general direction and couldn't point out the hill, so i took a really bad, extra distance route choice (1min) 8 fine, 9 i got confused by the marshes and searched the wrong hill(1min) 10 i took bad route choice on the 1.5k ish leg, because i took bad route choice i entered the control area from the wrong angle and missed it being too low (3mins), the rest of the course was fine, generally think i could of gone slightly quicker, with about 5/6 mins of mistakes i could of been nearer to 50 mins, Joe won with 49- good run from him. surprised that will's garmin said 9k.
Think i came tenth

run to the start and half way back with olly

work before the british, not good

climbs a bit of a guess as it's not working for some reason, tan with will and adam, brisk warm up to adams house, then ran straight up the front face of hoad, slightly steep, considering it was supposed to be an easy run the hill was quite hard, once we reached the top of the hill we ran down and round to richards to talk about the british for 20 mins, then warmed down to home

nice rest day tomorrow for the british this weekend, no aches or pains so feeling good, not as fit as i could be, slacking on the hills in comparison to will, might ice the ankle a bit tomorrow as there is still slight swelling from before the J.K. Its about time i had a good run...

best area i've probably ever ran on, about equal with cragabarns, ran 1,2,3,4,5,6 well, slightly slow on 3 as i took green route which was horrific(90s) 7 i messed up taking the wrong fence and realising where i was, yet i still messed it up again, probably did a good 400m extra... (5mins-very bad) 8 slow,9,10 fine 11(90s-too low) 12,13,14,15,16 fine but slow, 17 bad as i didn't bother looking at my map (20s) finish, slow, i think almost everyone messed it up, i didn't mess it up too bad but it was very confusing, 160m in 1:41, some people took five!
about 9 mins of mistakes which is really annoying but it was a very technical area and i really enjoyed it so im not too bothered, beat adam by 3, will beat me by nine

run to the start with will, then running around to stop my quads from hurting

1hr and 40 of indoor football followed by manhunt, did plenty of running in manhunt!
Played about 1 hour and a half of football with the boys last night too, not going to log it, it wasn't too high an intensity...

run with adam, and the rest of the group, we were having to run back to pick up everybody every so often,loop round leece and through lots of fields with high grass in, was quite enjoyable with a good comfortable pace throughout, me and adam went of and did an extra 2k loop, feeling pretty good, yet i need to be faster still as Adam is keeping up(he was pushing fairly hard on the hills). distance is about right and climb is fairly guesswork because the website isn't working, only one hill in the middle and at the end.
feels like im getting a sore throat coming when runningh, breathing hasn't been at it's best the past few days

jogging at the side of the tarn