Sunday Aug 20 |
 | Orienteering race 1:35:00 [4]**** 12 km (7:55 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Panther |
| Kvarnsvedstraffen, well this was real classic orienteering. Big hills, really rocky, green, steep and raining. It was Håkans birthday today and he wasnt to impressed to be spending it on this course by the sound of it. I actually enjoyed it for a challenge even though i did quite a few 1-2min mistakes it seemed to me they were inevitable so it didnt bother me too much and i pushed pretty hard right to the end. Apparently the mistakes werent inevitable when johan nordlund came in 11min ahead of me but i ended up 6th or 7th which wasnt too bad considering the terrain - good training anyway. |
| Running 20:00 [3]3 km (6:40 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Panther |
| Warming up and down. |
Saturday Aug 19 |
| Orienteering race 25:00 [5]**** 4 km (6:15 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Panther |
| Middle distance race in borlange. I actually took 44min and was 10min behind and a long way down but only about 25min was at real race speed thanks to some big mistakes. This was the first race i had done for ages in very technical terrain and i really tried to think about taking it easy in the technical areas but when the first long leg came i wound up the pace and did a big mistake from just not keeping careful enough contact with the map. It was real classic dalarna terrain with a lot of unmapped green and some very rocky areas and once i lost the focus a bit after the mistake plenty more followed... Unfortunately a guy died from a heart attack at this race which certainly puts a few mistakes in perspective. |
| Orienteering race 20:00 [4]**** 3 km (6:40 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Panther |
| The other 20min of the race at more like a classic race pace. At least i felt good in the legs. |
| Running 30:00 [3]5.3 km (5:40 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Panther |
| Warming up and down for the race. |
Friday Aug 18 |
| Running 30:00 [2]6.4 km (4:41 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics kayano |
| An easy jog round stadskogen to keep the legs ticking over before 2 races up in Borlange on the weekend. Back to swedish today. |
Thursday Aug 17 |
| Orienteering 2:05:00 [3]**** 16 km (7:49 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Sarva 2006 |
| Tagging control sites for the club champs. It rained all morning and then fined up in the arvo (same as every other day this week) so it was really eerie in the forest, it looked cool with steam coming off the ground and trees and heaps of fog in all the marshes. Also there were heaps of hot air ballons everywhere - it is the swedish champs in hot air ballooning here at the moment, who knows how they decide the winner? |
Wednesday Aug 16 |
| Running 45:00 [3]9.3 km (4:50 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics kayano |
| A short run to tape a few control sites for the easy courses for next weeks OK Linne club champs. Managed to time it perfectly between downpours so that i got to run in the sun. We went to our first swedish crayfish party in the evening - i might have a red wine headache in the morning, we also got tattoos... from Helenes daughters tattoo kit. Al got 3 stars and i got a swedish crown. |
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| C • badass 3 |
Tuesday Aug 15 |
| Orienteering intervals 50:00 [4]***** 8 km (6:15 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Panther |
| Linne club training. 7 X approx1km courses run as intervals in groups of 3-4 with 10 sec start intervals in Nåsten. I ran with Bjorn, Mats and Liutuaras Bilevicius. This was a really good training and really tough by the end, it was very noticeable that we all did more mistakes towards the end but mostly my orienteering was ok. The recovery times (below in brackets) depended on how long the last person was after and how long it was to jog to the next start point.
5.15, (1.56), 6.05, (3.10), 6.16, (3.38), 10.00, (4.34), 7.37, (2.32), 6.55, (5.28), 8.01
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| C • back 3 |
| Running 1:00:00 [3]12 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Panther |
| Running from home to the clubhouse > start of the training > between the intervals > and then home again. Couldnt wait to get home and get some cordial into me, this was a tough training. |
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| After the training i forgot the highlight of my day - finding my stolen bike!! I was walking through town when i saw it leaning on a signpost with a badly buckled back wheel. It wasnt locked so i just picked it up and carried it home which was a bloody epic since it weighs a ton and its a 30-40min walk. Hopefully i can true the wheel although it could be tricky since it doesnt even go round in the frame at the moment. |
Monday Aug 14 |
| Running long 1:25:00 [3]17 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics kayano |
| A long run out into Nåsten on the small paths and through the forest in a few places to check out some areas before i set the courses for the Linne club champs. |