Training Log: Cat T

improving, meanwhile planning for next year...

I think that might be me for the season. Ive been battling some irritation in my heel for some weeks (everything tightened up from suddenly running up lots of hills) and after that race and a maybe a bit of celebrating on the way back to Stockholm it feels like i shouldnt be running on it. Its not great to miss blodslitet but i think as it is it can get better with a couple of weeks of rest, but i might do something more damaging if i train another week and race something that tough.

Hopefully i can still do something lighter in the forest by the time i get to norway :-)

Halikko. Leg 5, which is one of the parallel ones with 3 runners, with Ludvig starting just ahead and Filip behind. Did a lot of admin while travelling but a bit frustrated that i neglected to do anything to get my head in the right gear for finnish forest. Realised when i was running vacant and planless to control 1 that i should have done some homework. Got near the right place on compass but then faffed about circling into it. Maybe a minute? After that a little bit shaky to 2 but then found some others to run with and did a much better job. Controlled and minimising time loss, not a great performance but i felt like id found something of my better self! Finally. Not feeling like i could quite dig to the bottom after no sleep and odd eating, but was running fine, not redzoned to keep up with the mini train (it was mostly men running this leg, they were a bit better at some of the rough / steep rocks but i could close the gaps on other places and when they lost seconds in the circle)... It was difficult orienteering and we didn't all run perfectly but 9th in the end was good. Excellent day out and so pleased to finally find more racing mojo again! Motivating for the winter.

Very early into the changeover, parallel legs are a bit nuts and i had no idea what was going on, so best to be ready just in case.

Travelling to Halikko!