Training Log Archive: robw

Totally stuffed today after being up all night drinking mad croc energy drinks, eating chips and cheering the boys on. Spent half the day sleeping back at the hotel and then in a park waiting for the flight that was at the exact time the socceroos played brasil... dissapointing!

Event: Jukola
 

An easy morning jog on the Jukola training map, i just ran around mainly on the small paths to check out the terrain a bit. The map was awesome as usual in Finland, beautiful weather.
After the training we checked out the Jukola area, watched the womens start and then we headed off for some pizza for lunch and a arvo nap back at the hotel.

ran 1st leg and finished 17th about 3min down on the first 2 guys but in the leading bunch which was a good result since this was by far the toughest first leg i have run at jukola or tiomila, some big teams lost a lot of time here due to the huge gaffling and tough technical terrain. The start was awesome as usual with over 1300 teams and a 50m climb to the start triangle. I had one of the lupine lamps again and had it on from the go since i remembered how hard it was to read the map in the forest last year. The first control was 2km away on the backside of a super detailed hillside so it was a good feeling to get that cleanly. I felt really good physically and it felt like i was always near the front after that, in the 2nd half of the course it really started to split up and for long sections i was just running with small groups of 1-5 guys which is normally unheard of. At the last tv with 5 controls left i was pretty sure we were the lead group of 4-5 but apparently there was 2 guys about 50 sec ahead. This group did a big mistake on the 3rd last and lost about 2min here but a lot of guys lost huge amounts of time (5-15min). When we finally got this control i knew we were still one of the first groups from the way the cameras went off which was a relief but annoying to do such a dumb mistake.

The rest of the race went really well for us esp after the long night when young gun Erik Rost took the lead by a min or so. We finished 9th which was a good result but a little dissapointing after being in the top 3 even on the 6th leg.

C • top effort 8

Warming up and a few min warming down before jukola.

Ran a short orienteering course with shep and hammer out at lunsen. Had a coffee in town afterwards and then had to pump home and pack in time to fly to jukola.

This was a forest sprint which was nearly more like a short middle race, grassy and rocky forest with a lot of paths. I ran pretty smoothly, maybe a bit cautiously but i was satisfied anyway. 16th place and about 1min behind Novikov who won.

C • shape 2

Warming up and down on the warm up map, about 20min of this was orienteering.

C • satisfied 1

Running in the Nåsten and city forests on small paths.

Ran blodomloppet 5km in uppsala, 15.47. A combination of roads and gravel bike paths with one long gradual uphill and a steep short downhill, felt pretty good and was pretty happy with the run, i was 2nd and the guy who won has run 14.20 so i didnt see much of him, he had 14.59.

Warming up/down for the 5k.

C • Nice 3

Easy recovery jog with Al round the small local forest paths. Went in to town afterwards and watched the Brazil - Croatia match which was pretty high quality, dunno how Australia is gunna manage to hold em off.

C • pessimistic 6

Hill intervals on the castle hill. 6 x 3min + 3 x 40sec. A U shaped interval to make a short steep hill into a gradual longer climb with a shorter recovery 1.30 jog down. Finished with 3 short intervals straight up the hill approx 40 sec. Felt strong running today although i was stuffed jogging home.

Jogging to and from the castle through the city forest, awesome sunny day and half of uppsala was out sunbaking.

Found out the malung jukola team this morning...
1. me
2. lars akerman
3. erik rost
4. anders akerman
5. bernt bjornsgaard
6. hakan eriksson
7. marius mazulis
a ripper team so i hope we are in the fight again.

C • juloka 12

A solid 90min mountain biking in the balmy summer evening, soaking in the joy of australia getting out of jail and winning its first ever world cup match, it doesnt get any better!

C • what a ripper 11