Training Log Archive: robw

I wondered where this training went, it actually happened last week.

C • You were right! 4

A middle distance sprint race in the park in the middle of valencia that was once an old riverbed. This was a pretty cool race with a few route choices that decided the race which was super close, i had one right and one wrong and ended up 6th or 7th, Håkan beat me by a sec and Erik was best from malung in 3rd. The spanish/romanian guys were pretty impressive here. I did a good race apart from the one bad route choice so it was a good couple of races and i ended up 2nd overall.

C • Nice racing!! 2

Warming up and down for the race, there was fircrackers going off everywhere in valncia today for fallas which made the place sound like a war zone - added a bit of atmosphere though.

An evening jog with Håkan up along the boardwalk by the beach back in alicante.

Running back from torreveija to torre de la casa after we had been out for a few drinks, there was 5 of us and only 4 would fit in the taxi so i ran.

Event: Valencia WRE
 

Pretty dull terrain for this race, a lot of orchards with mainly oranges and in between small thick rocky hills, a bit of route choice but mainly you just had to run fast. I was 2nd about 1.5 min behind a romanian guy i have never heard of who lives in spain, Håkan reckoned he could run under 14 min 5k but i dont know where he got that from. I ran pretty well anyway apart from running to 13 before 12 which prob cost a min.

C • Ionut 4

Warming up and down around the orange groves, had a few orange slices at the end of the race, just like school soccer.

After the race erik alf jimmy and i decided to chance it to see valencia play racing santander - football. all we knew was that the game started at 6pm in valencia somewhere and spanish guy had told someone we could still get tickets. We planned to take the train from lliria but since nothing in spain is signposted we couldnt even find the train station so we just started driving to valencia which we had been specifically told not to do since there was a massive festival there (fallas - check it on the net it is crazy). Anyway thanks to Alfs masterful driving through the thickest traffic i have ever seen (not helped by the fact that cars were parked 3 deep on the roads leaving only 1 lane for moving traffic) and two stops at servos for directions we pulled up onto the pedestrian strip (our parking spot) two blocks from that stadium with half and hour to spare. There was firecrackers going off all over the ground around the stadium and we thought we had nailed it when we found the ticket office but then it was sold out - denied. We tried a few scalpers but €150 was a bit more than we wanted to pay. we then spent the next 2 hrs dodging 10m high paper mache statues and firecrackers getting back out of town before having a sausage and omelete role with a coke for dinner in someones house which masqueraded as a restraunt. big day.

An easy run on another of the alicante sand dune maps, tried to get some good flow but a lot of he flags were missing which made it hard, hopefully this freshens me up a bit for the race tomorow.

Drove up to Valencia in the arvo and had dinner in this tiny mtn village where we were staying, Gatova. The only place to eat in town was the pub which made some food specially for us, 2 courses plus olives peanuts wine and coffee for 7€, not bad but the real highlight was the locals in there - real mtn men is all i can say.

Ran a really long course up in the mountains, 21k in a straight line with 1100m climb. It was bloody tough, luckily after about 110min i found a orange by the rside of a track so i ate that for a bit of refreshment since i didnt have any water with me. Had a great lunch in a little restruraunt in a small industrial town afterwards 3 courses, coffee and the worlds best beer for 10 euro.

C • worlds best beer 4

An evening jog along the boardwalk by the beach with Hakan and Jonas to loosen up before dinner.

Womens jwoc course at a tempo pace after i had run the mens.

Warming up and down plus jogging between the morning trainings.

Ran the jwoc courses on the sand dune maps today, i ran the mens course hard and was 4sec in front of the winning time, had good rythm and was orienteering well even though i felt like i was running on sand. Tha last morning training was a 1k sprint race on the dunes.

A 2 person night relay, i ran second leg after martin hammerberg and went out in a bunch with Erik, marius and lars, so it was on from the start, we made a fair few mistakes and in the end erik snuck by marius and i for the win.

C • JWOC 2

Warming up and down for the night training.

Got down to spain and after eating lunch and going to the hotel we headed out on the snad dune maps and did a course on a contour only map with 100 controls. Bit rusty in the start but had good rythm after about 30 controls, awesome weather and fun.

Usual weights.

Solid run round the local waterlogged tracks with Marius Mazulis who is staying before we go to spain on a training camp in the morning.