Training Archive: BorisGrIn the 31 days ending 2006-10-31:
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Tuesday Oct 31 | ||
| Running 1:00:00 [3]10.5 km (5:43 / km) +575m 4:29 / km | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| Hill training with the club, organized by Andreas at Sunnersta. Start at the bottom, run a 1km loop that includes two hills (55m climb total per loop) and take splits at the SI units at the tops of the hills. A nice run with a bit of snow falling the whole time. Didn't get any splits, though, as Andreas' computer battery died during the run. I tried to keep a pretty even pace the whole time and felt like 10 was the right number of loops to run. | ||
| C • A bit of snow? 2 | ||
| Note | |
| I got my orthotics today. As I expected, they didn't really fit into my O-shoes, which are probably the most important shoes for my foot to have support for. Oh well, I'll start by putting them in my walking and running shoes and see how it goes. | ||
| C • orthotics 8 | ||
| Strength 5:00 [1] | |
| Ankles. | ||
Monday Oct 30 | ||
| Strength 1:00:00 [3] | |
| Monday night gympa. An easy week (or two) of training has begun, probably lasting until Tom's training camp in Karlstad the weekend after next. | ||
| Strength 4:00 [1] | |
| Ankles. | ||
Sunday Oct 29 | ||
| Running 1:07:08 [3]14 km (4:48 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Running on trails and doing a piece of the Lidingo Loppet course (the last 10km or so) while visiting Andrew Quin on Lidingo. A very nice run on a very nice, crispy cold sunny day, with some hills thrown in. | ||
| C • Linne! 2 | ||
| Note | |
| I spent this morning listening to the live radio broadcast of Smalandskavlen, where the Linne guys had an awesome race, and came in 3rd, with Jan Troeng sprinting past Thierry in the finish chute for 3rd place. This is OK Linne men's best result in a major international relay, and it's awesome to see!! | ||
| Strength 4:00 [1] | |
| Ankles. | ||
Saturday Oct 28 | ||
| Orienteering 1:28:52 [2]***** 8.89 km (10:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| A really nice run on the best part of Lunsen on a rare bright sunny October day. Did an old course in reverse, orienteering pretty well the whole way and managing to avoid the hunters. Yeah, really fun!
Suzanne came along and did a map hike. Not sure if we should count the hour or so of biking to get there and back as training. | ||
| Biking 1:00:00 [1] | |
| To and from Lunsen. | ||
| Strength 4:00 [1] | |
| Ankles. | ||
Friday Oct 27 | ||
| Running 25:30 [2]3.29 mi (7:45 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| Morning jogg in short sleeves! The usual loop on a grey October morning that is slowly turning into a beautiful blue-gold afternoon. The fall colors are still in full bloom, and the view onto the castle and cathedral from my window right now is spectacular. | ||
| Strength 25:00 [1] | |
| Flexibility exercises, dips, crunches, etc. | ||
| Pool running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Found myself at Fyrishov, so decided I might as well aquajog so i could feel like i earned the time in the hot tub afterwards. The time went by pretty quickly as i watched my friends dive off the 10 meter platform. | ||
| Strength 4:00 [1] | |
| Ankles.
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Thursday Oct 26 | ||
| Running 30:00 [3]4.0 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Running to and from training from home. | ||
| Orienteering 58:31 [4]*** 7.4 km (7:54 / km) | |
| spiked:21/30c shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Orienteering intervals, so-called Tennis Orienteering. You divide into groups of 3-4 runners of similar speed (i was with Lasso, Muschen, and Bjorn, who stopped after 5) and do short orienteering courses (600-800 meters, 3 controls), starting about with about 10-15 seconds between runners. Meet at the finish of the loop and repeat the process for the next loop, shuffling the start order. The idea is to force you to run fast and orienteer well under pressure. It was fun, though i felt slow and stupid today. Everyone made more-or-less stupid mistakes in Stadsskogen in the rain tonight, including all of us following Lasso on a totally wrong trail to the finish of one of the loops.... Still, good fun! | ||
| C • Tennis O is great! 10 | ||
| Strength 4:00 [1] | |
| Ankles. | ||
Wednesday Oct 25 | ||
| Orienteering 1:05:00 [2]*** 5 km (13:00 / km) | |
| spiked:3/9c shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| Maybe the orienteering gods are telling me to take a rest week. Either that, or a year of night-O simply hasn't taught me anything. We had a training out on Hammarskog (now that there is a new map there, i'm sure we'll be spending tons of time there! In fact, the club voted to not allow H/D16 and older runners to race the Night-DM there next year so that it doesn't have to be embargoed and we can train on it.) But anyway, i figured i'd take it easy and just jog the course, slowly remembering how night-O works again, but i could barely find anything even at slow speed. I had trouble with even the most basic things, such as keeping direction, staying on a trail, or picking the right trail. Ended up cutting out part of the course and still coming in after all the others. Well, let's hope things will only improve from here. Was pretty low on motivation, too, so i think i'll make next week officially "the easy week" so i feel fresher by the time of TYRTOM's training camp in Karlstad. | ||
| C • Night-O 3 | ||
| Strength 4:00 [1] | |
| Ankles | ||
Tuesday Oct 24 | ||
| Running 2:07:41 [2]12.77 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| I've had better days. Started feeling really weak and unergetic about an hour and a half into the Tuesday night run, somewhere in the depths of Nasten in a downpour, and apparently looked awful enough that Jan and Bjorn were actually wondering if I was ok. Cut the run short and dragged myself back home and felt pretty dizzy and somewhat nauseous when i got home. Don't really know what's up, but definitely not my best training day. | ||
| C • NSM 6 | ||
| Strength 4:00 [1] | |
| Ankles
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Monday Oct 23 | ||
| Strength 1:00:00 [3] | |
| Working on a paper all day (see, i study occasionally!), so didn't have time for anything besides gympa. Probably good to have a day off from running, anyway. | ||
| C • Paper? 1 | ||
| Strength 4:00 [1] | |
| Ankles
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Sunday Oct 22 | ||
| Running 2:00:01 [2]14.12 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Long run after the club's annual meeting in the morning. Ended up running through Nasten south to Hammarskog, a big loop around Hammarskog and then back up north past IF Thor's clubhouse. Another run with short sleeves - not many left this year, surely. | ||
| C • Note - Kadaverloppet 11 | ||
| Strength 4:00 [1] | |
| Ankles. | ||
Saturday Oct 21 | ||
| Running 20:00 [2]2.35 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| Warm-up/cool-down in the rain. | ||
| Orienteering race 29:58 [4]*** 4.92 km (6:05 / km) | |
| spiked:10/18c shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| OK Enen's Oktoberracet middle distance event in the drizzle. Pretty much a runner's course most of the way, so every mistake counted. I took a while to get into the map (possibly because the map wasn't very good: we looked at an old map of the same place afterwards, and the contours on it are virtually the same, even though one is labeled as having a contour intervals of 5m and the other 2.5....), and thus lost some time on virtually all of the first 6 controls, probably losing 1:00-1:10 altogether. Then things went better, with small hesitations at 12 and 13 and then getting a bit offline going to 16 probably costing another 0:45-1:00. So about 2 minutes lost, all in all. Legs felt pretty heavy after the 5km on the track on Thursday, and i had to work hard to get up even the slightest hills. Ended up 38th out of 92, 5 minutes (20%) behind the winner, Pal Skogtjarn.
Splits at http://www.letro.se/okenen/bilagor/b212Str%E4cktid... | ||
| Note | |
| Today's was my 80th O-race of the year (including Wednesday night-O's and so on). | ||
| C • 80 O-races! 9 | ||
| Strength 4:00 [1] | |
| Ankles. | ||
Friday Oct 20 | ||
| Running 24:42 [2]3.19 mi (7:45 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| Morning jog in Stadsskogen to stretch the legs. Thought about taking the day completely off, but i figure i should get my butt out there any chance i can while i can still run in short sleeves. Legs felt pretty heavy during the run, but better after some stretching. | ||
| Strength 4:00 [1] | |
| Ankles. | ||
Thursday Oct 19 | ||
| Running 26:01 [2]3.47 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| Morning jog - in shorts and short sleeves, perhaps for the last time this year. | ||
| Strength 20:00 [2] | |
| Flexibility exercises, dips, etc. | ||
| Running 1:00 [3]0.13 mi (7:41 / mi) | |
| Running on a treadmill at the foot clinic while having the way my feet videotaped. The foot guy decided that my foot problem is due to overpronation, which came as no surprise. I've known that i overpronate for years, but have never had any problems associated with it, until now... Anyway, he made casts of my feet, and i'm getting new orthodics next week or so. We'll see if they help. | ||
| Running 55:00 [2]6.47 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| Running from the clubhouse to the track and back, plus some jogging on the track. | ||
| Running race 17:31 [5]5 km (3:30 / km) vdot: 58.1 | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| 5000m time trial on the track with the club. The scheduled workout was 10000m, but since i already had a personal benchmark for 5000, i decided to run that. Plus, my hamstring tends to only start hurting after 20 minutes of running or so, so i figured this was a mild way to be nice to it. I definitely wanted to run with someone, so i picked out Bjorn and ran with him, figuring that his 10000 pace is similar to my 5000 pace. It worked out great, as i felt comfortable and strong running right behind him and cruised through the first eight laps or so before starting to feel like i was working. We lost a couple of seconds on the 10th lap as we caught a guy, but couldn't get around him for a while, but that was some welcome rest as i felt strong again for the last two laps and finished well, leaving Bjorn to continue on his own. My PR coming in had been 17:52, so I am pretty pleased with this run. At the very least, moving to Sweden hasn't made me slower. Obviously, this is not exactly a world-class time, but improvement is always good, and i hope to get close to 17:00 in the spring, if my hamstring heals and i can manage a winter of good speed training. This was also the best i felt running a track race: at no point did i want to puke or stop or slow down, so that's encouraging. After finishing, it was pretty inspiring watching Mattias Millinger (the Greek letter "mu" on attackpoint) fly through the remainder of his 10km (32:32) while looking like he was just cruising around.
Splits: 82.0 83.3 83.8 84.7 (5:34 mile) 85.3 83.0 83.8 84.6 (5:36 mile) 84.9 86.2 84.8 84.0 (5:40 mile) 41.0 | ||
| C • Nice! 6 | ||
| Strength 4:00 [1] | |
| Read on Holger's webpage today that he decided to stop being a slave of ankle tape and start doing ankle strengthening exercises eveyr day. Certainly seems like a good idea. I'll start with 2 minutes on a each foot on a pillow and will see how it goes. Will log it to help me remember to do it. | ||
5km - Splits | ||
Wednesday Oct 18 | ||
| Orienteering 1:01:34 [2]6.5 km (9:28 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Biked out to North Lunsen with Suzanne after lunch and ran around for a bit. The idea was to practice running longish legs. Not happy with my orienteering at all: got offline a number of times and wasn't smooth at all. Didn't help that the magnifying glass on my compass was loose and kept spinning around and getting in the way. Oh well, still fun to be out on Lunsen! | ||
Tuesday Oct 17 | ||
| Running 2:18:33 [2]11.55 km (12:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| The theme of this long run on Nasten with the club was marshes and hills, so we ran long stretches through marshes, some nice and open, some pretty crappy, and also ran up and down whatever hills we could find (there really aren't that many on Nasten.) It was a fun run, though pretty slow going. Kinda funny, too, that on a day with beautiful fall weather the Swedes find solace by seeking out the muddiest and crappiest parts of the woods to run in!
I also ran to and from the clubhouse, which is good since this way i am staying ahead (just barely) of Kat's two hours and sixteen minutes of training today. It wouldn't do if she were out-training me, now would it? :) | ||
| C • Nice Training 4 | ||
Monday Oct 16 | ||
| Running 36:47 [2]4.9 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| An early evening run in Stadsskogen, on the lit trail. | ||
| Strength 1:00:00 [3] | |
| Monday night gympa. Tons of people today, including at least 10 from Linne. | ||
| Note | |
| Spent about 2.5 hours mapping in the early afternoon - my first attempt at the area around the Cathedral. Don't really know what'll come of it, but i hope it turns out ok. | ||
Sunday Oct 15 | ||
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2]1.5 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| A bit of a warm-up and then a shuffle-pace cool-down with Mats and Lars. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:39:13 [4]*** 15.9 km (6:14 / km) | |
| spiked:23/24c shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| OK Linne ultralong champs. First of all, it's nice to run for a club that has its own ultralong champs! Having said that, not too many people showed up on the lovely fall day, probably mostly due to the adventure race being yesterday, or whatever other lame excuses they had. The race was on the new Hammarskog map, (just south of Nasten) which has some fine woods and a well-developed trail network. The H21 course was run in three loops, with the order of the loops mixed for different runners. I had the same loop order as Mats and Lars and started with them, all of us running very fast. Somewhere during the first loop Mats made a mistake, and it was just Lars and i in the lead until Mats caught up again towards the end of the loop. The last kilometer or so of this loop had us crossing electric fences two times, and i got shocked each time and managed to drop my compass corssing the second time and got shocked again while retrieving it. Very unpleasant! We went through the first loop (5.9km) in an obscenely fast 34:24 and, after a few sips of water were off again. On the second loop Mats distanced himself a bit from Lars and me, but we kept him in sight for most of it - as we were finishing it, he was just leaving to start the third loop. The second one (4.5km) was run in 28:45. On the third one it was just Lars and me. We kept trying to get rid of each other by taking different route choices, but met up at the control each time. Finally, towards the end i got a bit ahead, punched the last control first and sprinted in on the road, finishing 2nd (out of just 7 in H21), about 4 minutes behind Mats. This was a great result for me and an excellent run, although it helped to have company most of the way and to have a lot of trail running on this course. Results at http://www.oklinne.nu/documents/documents_open.php... | ||
| C • Well done 10 | ||
Saturday Oct 14 | ||
| Orienteering 1:12:58 [2]8.11 km (9:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| Hanging and collecting controls and SI units for the Uppsala Raid adventure race. Hanging the controls just after it got light, collecting right before it got dark. Fun day, but very long and tiring even for those who didn't race! It was good to see that, even in Sweden, orienteers can kick ass in adventure racing (orienteers won mixed long, mixed short, men's short categories), though the men's long category was won by actual adventure racers. For more details, see Suzanne's or Seb's logs. | ||
Friday Oct 13 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Scheduled rest day. | ||
Thursday Oct 12 | ||
| Running 2:06:21 [2]14.86 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| A long run, first to the clubhouse, then to the start of backbana, then Bjorn's backbana (13km or so, not too steep) slowly, then back home, tired. | ||
Wednesday Oct 11 | ||
| Running 37:25 [2]4.99 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| An evening run in the drizzle on the lit trail at Stadsskogen. Spent the run thinking about ways of getting better. Besides just regular speed training, which I've been doing too little of due to nagging injuries, one thing that seems necessary is training to orienteer fast. It sounds obvious, and yet I definitely don't train this enough, and I don't think many other US orienteers do either. So that's one of those things I want to try doing more of this year. And for that, the best opportunities come at training camps, were you have multiple chances to go out on maps in a short period of time without the pressure of racing. So, I'll be trying to get to as many training camps as I can this year. The ones scheduled so far are:
1) The US Team training camp that TYRTOM is organizing in Karlstad in November; 2) The Oxford-Cambridge camp in the Lake District of England in the beginning of December; 3) (??) The US Team training camp in California in January; 4) (??) The OK Linne winter camp that hasn't been scheduled yet, but tends to be someplace warm in the end of February Any others? | ||
| C • Would be nice to have you in c... 8 | ||
| Strength 25:00 [2] | |
| The flexibility exercises plus dips, calf raises, and the like. | ||
Tuesday Oct 10 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:18:14 [4]* 18.9 km (4:08 / km) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| Street-O!! A 15km course through the streets of Uppsala with a few windows of controls that you could take in any order. Mass start. Started out slow, with everybody else, then gradually sped up and ended up in the lead with Joffe for a while. Took a bad route choice to a control at the castle and fell behind. Was caught by Mats, stayed with him and screwed up with him, getting caught by Lars and Micke there. The four of us stayed together through Stadsskogen (only i had a real lamp - they had either nothing or small diode lamps, so they didn't attempt to run away there). Then the pack split up in the end, Mats got ahead, finishing 2nd behind Joffe, and I had to outsprint Lars for 3rd. A fun street-O, but my legs will be sore as hell tomorrow!! Oh yeah, the 18.9km number comes from Micke's GPS watch. The course map should be available at http://www.oklinne.nu/documents/documents_open.php... | ||
| C • Nice Run 2 | ||
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [2]1.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| A very slow cool-down with Lars afterwards. | ||
Monday Oct 9 | ||
| Strength 1:00:00 [2] | |
| Gympa at Ekeby F&S. Legs pretty sore from the weekend and the week before, so I decided to take the day off from running. Foot hurt too. | ||
Sunday Oct 8 | ||
| Running 2:22:50 [2]20.7 km (6:54 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| I was seriously considering not training for a week or so to get my thoughts sorted out, but Anders Eriksson put up a very tempting long run invitation on the training bank, and here i was, with my Camelback and all, about an hour north of Uppsala, ready for a long run around the Florarna nature reserve. We ran with a 1:50000 map, so navigation was pretty rough, but the reserve itself was beautiful, with huge open marshes and birch groves scattered here and there. The first 75 minutes or so were in the woods, the rest on trails. A great run that makes me want to get back to training hard immediately. My foot did hurt on the rocky bits in the woods, though. | ||
| Note | |
| I guess I'm going back to logging training again after being away for a few days and then not feeling motivated to log afterwards. Coming back from France, I felt pretty discouraged by a combination of my own awful sprint race and some people's (possibly justified) comments about my poor overall results. Luckily, yesterday's 25-manna relay and today's run are making me feel excited about training and racing again - i guess it doesn't take much! | ||
| C • Talking Crap? 2 | ||
| Note | |
| Immediately after coming back from the long run, I went to the Uppsala castle to meet up with Mats, Micke, Lina, and Sofie. We took a walk around the castle and its surroundings and discussed how some of this stuff is going to look on an ISSOM map. I've never made a map from scratch before (only made corrections to existing maps), so there is a lot of learning ahead, but i am looking forward to it. All advice is appreciated! | ||
| C • Castle Sprint 1 | ||
Saturday Oct 7 | ||
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2]1.67 mi (8:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Warm-up and a bit of a cool-down in the rain at the 25-manna. The warm-up did little good, as i had to wait for the 6d leg runner to come in for at least 10 minutes more than i expected to. | ||
| Orienteering race 28:32 [5]*** 4.7 km (6:04 / km) | |
| spiked:11/12c shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| 25-manna - the 25-person relay just outside of Stockholm. The relay works like this:
leg 1 is normal and can be run by anyone; leg 2 is normal and can be run by anyone; leg 3 is run in parallel and has to be run by women: the leg 2 runner hands off 4 maps at the same time, and the 4 women are sent out; legs 4-7 are also run in parallel, 4 people for each, with various age and/or gender requirements (legs 5 and 7 can be run by anyone). The first runner back from leg 3 hands off to the runner designated as 4a, the second to 4b, and so on. This continues up through leg 7. Then, as the leg 7 runners come in, they hand off to the leg 23 runner. The first three leg 7 runners hand off blank maps, and the leg 23 runner has to wait until the 4th leg 7 runner has come in to get an actual map and run off. Then, leg 24 is individual and has to be run by a woman, and leg 25 is a normal anchor leg and can be run by anyone. Confusing!!! Anyway, i ran leg 7d for Linne's 2nd team, meaning i was the last leg 7 runner to go out. The first three guys went out pretty close together, but i kept waiting for 12 minutes for the last leg 6 guy to come in, so i knew it would almost certainly be me handing off the actual map to the leg 23 runner, so i had to run hard. Traditionally, the courses at 25-manna aren't extremely technical, and this was no exception. I had a pretty clean race, with maybe one 40-second mistake, and came in having helped bring us up from 68th to 60th place. My time was 39th of the 347 with my course, 4 minutes off the best time, so i was pretty happy. Plus, splashing through the mud and running with tons of people out there was so much fun!! In the end, we came in 66th (4th among second teams), and our first team came in 4th!!!! A pizza party and general celebration ensued. Splits at http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/sv/default.a... | ||
| C • Sjutton också 10 | ||
Friday Oct 6 | ||
| Event: 2006 North American Championships (Golden Leaf Orienteering Fest) | ||
Thursday Oct 5 | ||
| Orienteering 10:00 [2]1 km (10:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| Warm-up for the long distance on the warm-up map. | ||
| Orienteering race 2:24:48 [4]***** 13.2 km (10:58 / km) +415m 9:29 / km | |
| spiked:19/26c shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| The long. If you haven't seen the map yet, you should:
http://www.worldcup2006.fr/cartes_courses/longue/t... and http://www.worldcup2006.fr/cartes_courses/longue/t... Pretty much the toughest race I've ever run, perhaps besides the Hudson Highlander in 2003. I made 17 minutes of errors and was reasonably satisfied with that (people such as Emil Wingstedt made about a half-hour's wort). Ended up 61st overall, but a whopping 52 minutes behind amazing Thierry (although he did have a little help from his friends Valentin and Jani along the way - http://news.worldofo.com/2006/10/06/wc-one-two-thr... ) ! | ||
Wednesday Oct 4 | ||
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2]1.76 mi (8:31 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Warm-up for the World Cup sprint. Legs felt sluggish, despite a day off the day before: the middle distance final got moved to Friday due to severe windstorms that knocked down tons of trees and sent the local sheep running for cover anyplace they could find, including huddling in a pile behind two donkeys who were breaking the wind for them! | ||
| Orienteering race 22:55 [5]*** 3 km (7:38 / km) +110m 6:27 / km | |
| spiked:21/25c shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| World Cup Sprint race. Absolutely dreadful! My worst sprint in ages. I got to the first control, which was maybe 100 meters from the start, but read the code wrong (the numbers were sort of cursive, and the 31 looked like 54 to me). I ran around, relocated twice, and kept attacking, coming back to the same control each time. Eventually i decided to come up to it and finally saw the 31 written on the SI unit! Fine, a minute lost is bad, but not completely disastrous. However, the way i reacted to this was not by regaining control of my senses and continuing the race as usual, but with frantic, panicky orienteering, running too fast, not spending enough time to look at route choices, and making beginner mistakes. The worst was that i knew that i was doing this, but also could not stop and make myself slow down. Basically, this was my worst orienteering nightmare come true (well, in the worst nightmare, my pants would fall down as i searched for the spectator control, but luckily that didn't happen, and there were no spectators anyway.) Towards the end of the race i made another giant mistake, but i'll blame that on the map - the control was on the end of a stone wall that definitely did not end there. Oh well...
The end result was a miserable 4th place from the end, almost 50% behind the winner - in a sprint!!! | ||
| Running 22:30 [2]2.81 mi (8:01 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| After we got back to our cabins, Neil dragged me out for a run around the lake, which turned out to be quite nice and cheered me up a bit. Thanks, Neil! | ||
Monday Oct 2 | ||
| Event: World Cup Final Round- France | ||
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [2]2.22 mi (9:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| Warm-up and a short, nervous cool-down after the middle qualifier. | ||
| Orienteering race 39:11 [4]***** 4.2 km (9:20 / km) +110m 8:15 / km | |
| spiked:16/20c shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| World Cup Middle Qualifier. The course is at http://www.worldcup2006.fr/cartes_courses/mdqualif... I had a solid run, maybe too cautious, but certainly avoided disaster. While the navigation was tough and the terrain very technical, it wasn't as intense as what we saw at the model event, especially because you could use a number of trails. I probably should have seen that and changed my approach to be more aggressive, but i didn't and perhaps ended up running slower than i could have. Still, when i finished, i was ahead of Mats Haldin, plus the Norwegian and Brit in my heat, as well as a few others, so i was hopeful. But as the likes of Holger, Novikov, and Hubmann came in, it became clear that i would miss out. Regardless, i was reasonably satisfied with my run - avoiding disastrous mistakes in this terrain was an accomplishment in itself. | ||
| Orienteering 30:00 [1] | |
| Map hike on the sprint model event at Plateau de Gergovie with Viktoria and Sandra and lots of sheep. | ||
Sunday Oct 1 | ||
| Orienteering 50:00 [2] | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Model event for the middle distance at Aydat after driving from Bern with Sandra and Viktoria in the morning. The terrain was virtually impossible to run through and, when you could run, you certainly couldn't read the map at the same time. It was funny to run into a depression and see Jani Lakanen come into it from the other side, look at the map, and throw up his hands in confusion with a smile on his face. | ||
