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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