This week, I talked with Peter O'Brien, a Doctor living in Ayrshire whom I met when I was in the Lakes for a training weekend.
After I hashed out a very crude science lesson on training (apologies, you may want to skip that bit) we talked about:
What we talked about:
- How covid became the time that he started running and looked to just stay fit and functional
- How he found enjoyment in entering events (and the slippy slope that followed)
- Taking to the hills with events like the King and most recently the OMM
- Some of the different skills and thinking when you hit the high hills and wilder events
- How the boundaries to the weekly training allows for flexibility for individual sessions (a theme that we have talked about before)
- What's up next
Key Takeaways:
- Use events to give you the focus to train, and depending on the event, to train specifically
- Find the type of events that you enjoy - you don't always have to be pushing yourself to breaking point in each race
- Think about what skills you might need in future events and practice early (e.g. navigation)
Resources Mentioned:
- Asics and Salomon shoes, features and merino socks, Ultiate Direction race pack
- gels/fuelling: my fave - voom bars plus tailwind with some chia power bars thrown in
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