Sunday Aug 26 |
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| Was going to run out to the sprint today but my back was rooted after the relay yesterday (probably the crazy downhills) so i took a few voltarens and took the metro instead. Had a few beers at the airport with Boris in the arvo to use up our hrivnya and farewell crazy ukraine... one place i wont be returning for a holiday in hurry.
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Saturday Aug 25 |
| Orienteering race (WOC Relay) 38:00 [5]**** 6.5 mi (5:50 / mi) +250m 3:15 / km | |
| shoes: VJ Panther |
| So much for retiring from running WOC, a few days later and i am back running but at least it gave me the chance to finish on a better note than failing to qualify so i was pretty pumped to do a good run. After good efforts from Troyzee and Jules, (esp TDH who copped all the long splits) i went out about 11th? a few secs ahead of a group with Czech, Estonia and Denmark and a couple of min behind Italy and Lithuainia. It was quite easy orienteering esp the first part and i ran at the front of this group the first few km but then we hit the big ravines and there was a lot of splitting so it was every man for himself. I did one mistake here (a bit wide across a ravine which meant an extra climb that prob cost about a min), this was a pretty critical mistake in hindsight as when i came out of the splitting i could see a big group about 1min ahead fighting for 9th. Towards the end i started to catch italy at the back of this group and really pushed hard but a few little 15sec misses in the vague bit towards the end meant i didnt ever get close enough. Anyway i was pretty pleased with the run, afterwards its easy to think what if i didnt do that mistake and was together with Czech etc but it was my best WOC race this year and best WOC relay run ever i would say - not hard. |
| Running 20:00 [2]3 km (6:40 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Panther |
| Warming up for the relay. |
Friday Aug 24 |
| Running 30:00 [3]6 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Puma trailfox |
| Easy morning run with the boys. plus a few surges, we had a bit of a go on the local outdoor gym built of old lumps of metal and chains and ropes, no such thing as ohas here. One of the locals scared us off after a few minutes though. |
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| C • nice work in the relay 6 |
Thursday Aug 23 |
| Orienteering 40:00 [3]*** 5 km (8:00 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator 07 |
| Training with Jules Reubs and TDH on the relay model map, short warm up then we ran a mass start forked course a bit harder, then a short warm down. A good training anyway, felt a bit sluggish but. |
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| C • Relay 2 |
Wednesday Aug 22 |
| Running 55:00 [2]11 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Puma trailfox |
| Easy morning jog with Brett Annika and Kathryn on the island. Watched the middle final after that and wished i was running. oh well. |
Tuesday Aug 21 |
| Running 1:00:00 [3]12 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Puma trailfox |
| Ran from the hotel in the morning with shep tdh and reubs onto the island in the dnipro river and ran around the small paths there. We ran past the outdoor gym and had a crack at the bench press and then out into ther forest to contend with the dogs, ran a bit faster on the way home. It was fun to just go for a run with no plan of how long i was going to run for or how fast, hopefully it will be fun to just train when i feel like it and i wont get too unfit. |
Monday Aug 20 |
| Orienteering race 32:00 [4]***** 5 km (6:24 / km) | |
| shoes: Helly Hansen trail |
| Middle distance qual. Started well and had a pretty good rythm straight away, got the first 3 well and then missed 30 just hesitating on the 4th. Got going well again but missed 30 sec again on 7 around the control - got a bit dissorientated wading throuhg the head high nettles. After this i lost the good rythm and wasnt careful enough coming into the controls and did 2 more 30sec misses on 9 amd 11 but the real killer was a 1.45 min miss on 13, the last control in the forest. Got dissorientrated in the green on the way our saw a earth wall and did a classic parallel error - that fucked it for me. It was pretty tight qualifying in such technical terrain, only 4min after thierry and you were out. Dissapointing end to woc for me esp after having such good form earlier in the year and feeling like it was back again. Time to retire to the national league for me. |
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| C • sounds tough 7 |
| Running 20:00 [3]3 km (6:40 / km) | |
| shoes: Helly Hansen trail |
| Warming up inc a lap of the warm up map which had one contour and two types of green plus a few rides, the crappest bit of map i have ever seen. Thought i saw a snake warming up but it was just a stick, it woke me up anyway. |