Cat Taylor

This isn’t quite the news I was first planning to write. I was in the middle of an it’s-going-fine-now post when suddenly I wasn’t sure if it was fine at all. Even though January saw a return to mostly running and orienteering training and I made great progress for a few weeks, not everything went perfectly at the end. I needed a two-part wake-up call from housemate/hero Kim, who is fast earning a cape for repeatedly saving my training. I think what started it was a weekend of slushy

Monday, February 11, 2019

Cat Taylor

It’s been over two years since I last had to really dig into the alternative training barrel. I’ve been quite lucky recently not to get injured, or maybe quite good at dealing with small niggles as they arose. But after I got drawn in to trying so hard to finish the season, I messed up my Achilles insertion (and the surrounding stabilising tendons) so much that by the start of my new training year, I wasn’t nearly ready to run. After two sedentary weeks it was great to get out again, but it’s

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Cat Taylor

I’ve reached the end of my training break. In one sense it’s long overdue, as I didn’t take one at all last year, and I think that’s where it all started to go wrong. Motivation is high, like then, but I know now that I need the time off and the last two weeks have featured no planned training at all. The last race at Halikko-viesti, with Södertörn. 25manna’s smaller Finnish cousin was a lot of fun and was great as our end of season celebration. A brill team weekend and as a bonus, for most of

Monday, October 29, 2018