Monday, February 06, 2006
slipping about town...
Tuesday was freeeeeeezing! The frost was out and the
air was crisp. Lovely. Sheila Kerr was a wee bit
late down to training so I held back for her and we
had a very easy slip around town. We started out by
running in the streets at the front of Halhill, down
Countess Road and then round West Barnes. We were
overtaken by the men running up the hill at West
Barnes they were probably already on their homeward
stretch of the town run! We then went up the back
road, where we passed all the other ladies (clearly we
had set off in the wrong direction) and then passed
Keith on our way up towards the pool. We stuck to the
roads in fear of slipping off any little cliff paths
into the sea, and ran round by the harbour and back
along Countess Road to Halhill. Think we did about
4.5 miles? At a very reasonable pace
.
Thursday night was interval training, and as it was
the first Thursday of the month it was time for the
handicap 5k. For some reason I had managed to get
myself all uptight and nervous before getting to
Halhill probably due to the bad run I had the last
time I ran this session. For some reason I told
Sheila Morrison to put some effort in before we ran
Ill not be doing that again! Sheila M won the
trophy. She set off with a handicap of about 25mins
30 or 25mins 45 or something, and ran the course in 24
mins and 24 seconds! See what happens if she actually
applies herself? Anyway, I think Ian needs to do some
work on those handicap times
..I ran a respectable
race, got the best time for me for the loop (24mins
and 40secs) when I had a reasonable handicap (25 mins)
but was still quite a bit down the pack (although not
last by ages as per the last one!). Anyway, I was
pretty pleased with my run, and went out for a meal to
celebrate! (well the meal was really to celebrate my
birthday
..)
On Friday I had a day off work and amongst other
things went for a sports massage. It was supposed to
be for 1hour but I spent at least 1.5 hours there, if
not longer. My leg man is just back at work after a
bought of illness so was using my legs as his first
practice run! Lets just say I dont think hes
forgotten what to do. The bruises arent quite as
impressive as the first lot, but lets just say my
legs are still tender and its now Monday! On a
positive note, whilst much of the work was agony, I
could feel my muscles easing off much quicker than
they had at previous massages!
On Saturday morning Sheila Morrison and I went on a
long run. Sheila wanted to fit in 15 miles due to her
20 mile race at the end of March. I wasnt keen to
step up so far and wanted to run a maximum of 13
miles, so we met in a mutual point at the end of the
road to Whitesands. I had spent a good amount of time
on the Friday with a map and piece of paper, measuring
different routes to ensure that we did an accurate
distance. On meeting Sheila had run 3 miles and I had
run at least one. From the end of Whitesands road we
ran a 12 mile loop that was lovely, but not easy. We
ran down to the car park at Whitesands, onto the
caravan park and along the road heading towards
Skateraw. Along this path we turned up to meet the A1
and crossed this to get onto the road to Innerwick.
We ran along up past Thurston Manor and took a right
turn along to the Brunt and Woodhall. From there we
followed the route of the Lammermuir club 10k run,
along past Spott Mains Farm, down to Doon bridge, up
the closed road to Wester Broomhouse and the down to
Eweford. We took the decision to run back to Sheilas
as this was the slightly shorter route and also down
hill! The run took longer than expected for the
distance, however not surprising given that I did walk
up a couple of those hills (bad bad bad) and that we
did have a little slip around on some ice near the
ford at the Brunt. Good training though
.Also we had
half of one of those delightful gel things with
caffeine, and that did seem to have some sort of
effect, so will try more of that in future long runs.
On Sunday am Sheila Kerr and I headed off for a
shorter easy run along Belhaven bay and through John
Muir Country park through some farms and back to the
Belhaven car park. The weather was nicer than Saturday
and the beach was virtually deserted which was
great
.the beach was absolutely soaking though and my
feet were sodden by the end. I washed my trainers by
hand on Sunday night, only to notice that they are
absolutely knackered no wonder my
legs/feet/everything has been getting sore. That
means another trip to running shop, more money
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