Training Archive: BorisGrIn the 31 days ending 2006-12-31:
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Sunday Dec 31 | ||
| Orienteering 1:49:52 [3]***** 12 km (9:09 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| Orienteering training with Kat on central Lunsen. We took the club car and drove down there, and then an exercises similar to what Jagge recommended to me a while ago: I take a streamer and run hard to a control and hang the streamer. Kat starts 30 seconds after me and runs hard to the control, too. In order not to have to wait long, I did short little butterfly loops centered at the streamered control. This felt like really good training, especially because of the change of pace between the long legs to the streamered control and the short, technical legs in the butterfly loops. Also, the pressure of having Kat chasing me down and needing to hang the streamer right made me more conscientious about my orienteering than I might otherwise be on a long run. Both Kat and I orienteered well - very few mistakes. I was once again impressed with Kat. After about an hour, she ran back and I ran a few more km and then started getting tired and losing focus a bit. It's very hard to navigate cleanly when tired, especially in a place like Lunsen, so that's something I'd like to work on some more this winter. | ||
| C • Happy New Years!! 2 | ||
Saturday Dec 30 | ||
| Strength 1:00 [2] | |
| Carrying Kat up and down the corridor because she thought I couldn't do it. | ||
| C • next challenge... the stairs? ... 4 | ||
| Strength 6:00 [1] | |
| Ankles. | ||
Friday Dec 29 | ||
| Running 16:00 [2]1.88 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| Running from parking to the start and back. | ||
| Orienteering 1:10:17 [2]***** 4.5 km (15:37 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| I can think of no better way to spend this sunny, chilly Friday than orienteering on the best, most technical part of Lunsen with Kat. We got a ride down there with Mats, who was coaching Albin, and ran a course, with Kat navigating and telling me what she was planning and which features she was checking off. It went well: Kat orienteered a lot more confidently and better than the last time we ran together, which was probably in Switzerland this summer. This was really fun today, and I enjoyed being back in the woods for the first time in over a week. The ankle felt fine with the brace on it. | ||
| Strength (gym) 45:00 [1] | |
| Core, upper, and lower body at the gym with Kat. | ||
| Strength 6:00 [1] | |
| Ankles | ||
Thursday Dec 28 | ||
| Running 2:14:54 [2]16.86 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| A nice long road/trail run with Mats, Micke, Bjorn, and Annika Billstam on a lovely, sunny winter morning. We first ran east to Kungsangsbridge, then south along the river down to Sunersta, along the lake for a while, then up through Gottsunda gipen and then along Gula stigen past Hammer's old house up to Angstroms and then home.
Saw a bunch of people we knew along the way - Uppsala is a small town. As for PG's daily At One With Nature wildlife watch, we saw a cat being walked around on a leash, which I thought looked pretty funny. | ||
| C • Gula stigen 1 | ||
| Strength 6:00 [1] | |
| Ankles. | ||
Wednesday Dec 27 | ||
| Pool running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| An hour of pool running at Fyrishov while watching kids jump (or fall) off the diving platforms. | ||
| Note | |
| During the last few night-O's, I noticed that one of the things that lead me to lose a lot of time is not being able to quickly pinpoint where I am on the map when I glance down on it. Since in night-O, one can only afford very quick glances before running into a tree or a wild Swede, this means that I often look down at my map and get no information from it in that one glance - all I manage to do is find where I am, and by then it's time to look up again. I understand that thumbing works pretty well, but it is far from perfect. So, does anyone know some good way to practice quickly finding your location on the map? What I have in mind is some kind of armchair-O exercise I can do for this. Thanks! | ||
| C • Wild Swedes!!!!! 8 | ||
| Cross-Training 30:00 [2] | |
| Warm-up (16;00), cool-down (10:00), and between intervals (4:00). | ||
| Cross-Training 30:00 [5] | |
| Intervals on the stair machine at the gym. I was planning on doing intervals on trails today (hoped to run the Stadsskogen lit track), but the ankle is still sore, so I am staying away from hard running on trails or in the woods for a couple more days.
Anyway, I did 3x10 minutes, and this felt really hard. I was sweating buckets the entire time. Lovely scene, I'm sure. The gym was full of Linne orienteers tonight, doing everything from gympa to treadmill intervals. | ||
| Strength 6:00 [1] | |
| Ankles. | ||
| Note | |
| I noticed that PG's strategy of posting pictures of half-naked people in his log has finally paid off, and he has knocked me off the top of the "Most popular logs" list. Perhaps it's time to pay back in kind... | ||
Tuesday Dec 26 | ||
| Strength 45:00 [1] | |
| Strength at the gym with Kat. Did core, upper and lower body. I would have put down 1 hour for this, but Kat only put down 45 minutes, and I can't be left looking like a wimp here. | ||
| Running 2:00:27 [2]15.31 mi (7:51 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| A nice long afternoon run with Micke on roads and trails. We ran on the big trails all the way through Nasten, came out past Uppsala Nas to Lurbo bridge and then up through the city, past the castle and cathedral and back home. Had a nice chat on the way, too, discussing goals for the upcoming season and for our respective careers. Micke (one of Sweden's best juniors two years ago, now a promising young senior, with a 7th place in the Swedish night champs) is hoping to make the Swedish WOC team in 2009 and be on the podium at WOC in 2011. Ambitious goals, but I suppose you have to aim high if you want to end up there! I told him my ambition is merely to be in the top 30 at WOC someday. | ||
Monday Dec 25 | ||
| Running 46:11 [2]5.96 mi (7:45 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| The usual trail loop on Stadsskogen, with the map. A very enjoyable, quiet morning. Very few people out in the woods. Must be Christmas or something. | ||
| Strength 15:00 [1] | |
| Flexibility training after getting back from the run. | ||
| Biking 45:00 [4] | |
| Spinning - totally full on Christmas day. The guy who came in 30 seconds after me didn't get a bike.
Worked hard, sweated a lot, had fun. | ||
| Strength 6:00 [1] | |
| Ankles | ||
Sunday Dec 24 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Day off today. Next week is planned to be easy to let my random small injuries rest up, and just in general, I've been pretty tired training last week. | ||
| Strength 5:00 [1] | |
| Ankles. | ||
Saturday Dec 23 | ||
| Cross-Training 32:00 [3] | |
| Following Rob's advice and trying out the stair machine at the gym (yes, the Frisky and Sweaty one). Took me a while to get the hang of it, but then it went ok. This part is the warm-up (15 minutes), cool-down (10 minutes), and running between intervals. | ||
| Cross-Training 24:00 [5] | |
| Intervals on the stair machine. 8x3 minutes at level 15-16, with 1 minute recoveries at level 10-11. Sweaty as hell! Not too frisky though. | ||
| Strength 4:00 [1] | |
| Bought a wobble board! Now there is no excuse to not do ankle exercises. | ||
Friday Dec 22 | ||
| Pool running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| At Fyrishov, with Rob, Kan, and Zan. Well, mostly with Rob, really, as we couldn't keep up with the girls, who lapped us about four times during the hour. | ||
Thursday Dec 21 | ||
| Running 20:00 [2]2.35 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| Warm-up plus random jogging around here and there. | ||
| Running 10:00 [1] | |
| Secret Russian running drills. | ||
| Running 5:00 [5] | |
| Hill sprints on the same hill in Norbyskogen where I ran on Tuesday. | ||
Wednesday Dec 20 | ||
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [2]7 km (8:34 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Went out on this beautiful, sunny morning to run a part of last night's line-O on Nasten, since I didn't get to do it last night due to lack of lamp. It was really nice to be out in the woods by myself on a nice day, running along, seeing footprints from last night in the thin layer of snow. Legs felt heavy, though, so I only ran for an hour. | ||
| C • lamp 2 | ||
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [3]6 km (10:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| Wednesday Night-O at Vattholma, running the very courses Rob and I set. You'd think that running your own course would be easy. Oh no, not here! I felt very tired right from the start and didn't concentrate well, which is punished severely in this vague area, where it is very easy to drift off your bearing. Additionally, the woods are very rough: both rocky and full of freshly cut down tree branches on the ground, meaning that running took up even more of the concentration that I didn't have. Anyway, I ended up being the only one to DNF the long course, which was pretty embarrassing, but i guess these days happen. On the bright side, Kat ran well on the short course!
Map: http://www.elinochbjorn.se/filer/upload/Vattholman... Results: http://www.oklinne.nu/onsdagsnatt/results.php?id=2... | ||
Tuesday Dec 19 | ||
| Strength 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Weights at F&S with Kat and Rob. | ||
| Running 45:00 [2]6.0 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| Running around the Norby ski tracks. | ||
| Running 30:00 [4]7.5 km (4:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| This has been a bad season of Tuesday nights for me so far. After biking over to the clubhouse in the snow and getting changed just in time for this Tuesday run, we realized that Kat's lamp didn't work. At all. We later realized that the battery had been completely rusted through, probably from being left wet in a bag for too long. Gotta buy a new one... I ended up giving Kat my lamp and then racing with her to the start, getting there just in time for her to run with the pack. I decided to do my own thing and run around the Norby lit track, but quickly got bored. Instead, I decided to run intervals: 3x2.5km with 2 minutes rest. Wanted to run them at 10 minutes each, ended up doing 9:50, 10:06, 9:58. | ||
| Running 5:00 [5]0.83 mi (6:02 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| 10 hill reps on the one sizeable hill on the lit trail after the intervals. | ||
Monday Dec 18 | ||
| Biking 1:00:00 [4] | |
| Spinning with Rob at Ekeby. Thought about doing the second half of the normal gympa I go to, but decided that staying off my feet today would be a good idea.
And: Kat is here!! | ||
Sunday Dec 17 | ||
| Running 40:00 [2]5.0 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| Running to and from backbana start. | ||
| Running 32:30 [3]5 km (6:30 / km) +300m 5:00 / km | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| Backbana. Some days you have it, and some days you don't. Today fell into the latter category. Right from the start my legs felt really heavy, and i didn't have much energy - possibly because of skipping dinner last night. I struggled through a lap of backbana with Jan Troeng, Pal Skogtjarn, and Rob (as we started, i thought to myself: what business do i have training with these guys??? Two Swedish B-team members, and the 24th best middle distance runner from WOC! Somehow, i didn't feel like i belonged. But i suppose that's something i really like about our club - even the very best runners are very welcoming and happy to train with the likes of me. Pretty cool.) The ankle brace started giving me a blister on the inside of my foot on the downhills, i took it off after one lap, tried starting a second one, but just felt pretty weak and decided to stop. I felt lame doing it, especially as it was a pleasure to be out on this fine sunny, crispy winter day, but i don't think it's wise to be running up and down very steep hills with bad footing with a crappy ankle after taking the brace off... | ||
| C • The only person who decides if... 2 | ||
| Note | |
| Maps from Vinterrejset:
http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy2/vinterrejset... http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy2/vinterrejset... http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy2/vinterrejset... | ||
| Innebandy 1:00:00 [4] | |
| Played innebandy in the evening with Jan, Joffe, Johan Hoij, and a few non-orienteers. Lots of fun, all the sprinting back and forth really gets your heart rate up! Too bad i am terrible at it. | ||
| C • Terrible at innebandy 8 | ||
Janne's backbana in Uppsala - Splits | ||
Saturday Dec 16 | ||
| Running 55:00 [2]6.88 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| Running to and from the start of Vinterejset. | ||
| Orienteering race 49:06 [4]7.52 km (6:32 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Vinterrejset, a race at Stenhagen organized by some of the club's juniors, Simon Eklov and Albin Ridefelt. ( http://www.ridefelt.se/vinterrejset/2006/index.php )
The race was a mass-start with two map exchanges, one at the first control. To get to the first control, you had to use the mirro image of the real map, which sent people running in all different directions. After this, the race settled down, and I found myself in the lead pack with Tomas Stenstrom, Jan Troeng, Ulrik Imberg, and Bjorn Olovsson. Jan and Tomas pulled away on the last loop, and Ulrik and I got by Bjorn when he made a mistake. I ended up 3rd, about 2:30 down on Jan's winning time, and received a big bag of candy as a prize. Now i am eating it. Edit: results are now up at http://www.ridefelt.se/vinterrejset/2006/resultat.... | ||
| C • Congrats! 4 | ||
Friday Dec 15 | ||
| Orienteering 1:10:00 [2]5.83 km (12:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| Hanging reflectors for next wednesday's night-O with Rob on Vattholma, a little-used map about 20km north of Uppsala. A fine, if windy, day, decent terrain, good company. Rob lent me one of his ankle braces, and I ran with it on. Felt pretty comfortable, so I might invest in one the next time I am back in the States (they cost like 3 times as much here.) | ||
| C • ankle braces 13 | ||
Thursday Dec 14 | ||
| Pool running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| With Suzanne and Seb at Fyrishov. | ||
| Running 20:00 [2]2.35 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| Warming up and down and jogging between intervals. | ||
| Running 10:00 [1] | |
| Secret Russian running drills. | ||
| C • Ooooo.... 4 | ||
| Running 36:00 [4]5.75 mi (6:14 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| My first speed workout of the season. To start off, decided to do a threshold run: 3x12 min with 2 min jogging rest in between, same thing that Rob did the other day. Felt good most of the way and kept a pretty constant pace. Nice to run in this 12C weather!! | ||
| C • Gotta love this global warming... 2 | ||
| Strength 45:00 [3] | |
| Circuits after intervals. Had a duel with Joffe about who can keep up the plank ( http://aerobic.fizteh.ru/sport/a_planka/prav.jpg ) longer. By the end, we were both pretty much shaking uncontrollably and barely dragged ourselves through the rest of the exercises. | ||
| C • silly boys 12 | ||
Wednesday Dec 13 | ||
| Note | |
| (injured) | ||
| Ankle is a lot better this morning after being iced, compressed, and elevated last night. I think I will take today completely off in the hopes of being able to run on it tomorrow. | ||
| C • Time off 3 | ||
| Biking 45:00 [4] | |
| Ok, I lied about the day off. The ankle was feeling almost totally fine when I biked over to Rob's to help him plan course for next Wednesday's night-O, and so I decided to go to a spinning class after all. Jorgen, Rob, and Lina were there too. As usual, spinning was sweaty.
The ankle is still a bit swollen, but pretty much pain-free, and I can walk without a limp now. Perhaps it looked a lot worse than it was last night. | ||
| C • beLIEve 1 | ||
Tuesday Dec 12 | ||
| Strength 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Went to the gym for the first time in ages, tagging along with Rob and doing his standard workout: start with some core work, then alternating upper and lower body exercises. Will surely be sore tomorrow. | ||
| Orienteering 2:04:00 [3]17 km (7:18 / km) | |
| (injured) shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Jagge, you jinxed me!
About fifteen minutes into tonight's club training run, I jumped off a small cliff and went over hard on my right ankle. I rolled around in pain for a bit, then got up, walked a couple of hundred meters and then decided to keep going. It was a really fun course, a nice night, good company, and i really did not want to quit and go back. So the combination of adrenaline and cold swamp water kept me going for most of the course, until we got to a candle-lit area inhabited by Santa, Lucia, and a guy in what looked like a Klansman outfit serving us much needed warm glogg and gingerbread cookies. During this welcome break, my ankle stiffened up, and i could just manage a jog back home. Bad news. And just when i was starting to finally feel healthy and strong again... It's the worst an ankle of mine has looked since a day in the summer of 2000 when the left one looked like this: http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy/images/ankle.... | ||
| C • Ouch... 4 | ||
Monday Dec 11 | ||
| Pool running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Aqua-jogging with Rob in the morning at Fyrishov. | ||
| Strength 1:00:00 [2] | |
| Monday night gympa. | ||
| C • Ankles? 2 | ||
Sunday Dec 10 | ||
| Running 42:00 [2]5.25 mi (7:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| Running to and from backbana in the morning. | ||
| Running 1:01:30 [4]11.06 km (5:34 / km) +600m 4:22 / km | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| Two laps of the backbana with Joffe, Rob, Fredrik Noborn, and Magnus Saager, who had his two really well-trained dogs along for the run. The first lap took 29:50, which felt pretty comfortable, but I slowed down for the second one and ran 31:40. Joffe ran away from us on the second lap and did under 28 minutes. | ||
| C • Saager? 2 | ||
Janne's backbana in Uppsala - Splits | ||
Janne's backbana in Uppsala - Splits | ||
Thursday Dec 7 | ||
| Orienteering race 31:30 [4]*** 3.3 km (9:33 / km) | |
| spiked:5/9c shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| The final day of the camp - a chasing sprint, where the chase is started in reverse order of the times of the prologue.
I blew the prologue pretty badly - did not concentrate well and got confused by new fences and structures that weren't on the map. Ended up 6 minutes behind Joe Mercer. | ||
| C • Training 1 | ||
| Orienteering race 24:30 [5]*** 3.3 km (7:25 / km) | |
| spiked:8/9c shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| The chase went much better. I had decent speed and good focus and ran well, passing a few people early on. Then got to the tricky area around eight, slowed down a bit and lost a bit more time on 9, but no more than a minute total. Ended up 30 seconds behind Joe and a bit over a minute behind Alan Elder from Cambridge. Solid run.
Map: http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy2/lakes4_06121... | ||
| Orienteering 15:00 [2] | |
| Picking up controls after the chasing sprint.
This was a great training camp, both physically and technically. I will now take a couple of days to recover before getting back to training. Thanks a lot to both the Oxford and Cambridge clubs for letting me come along and making me feel welcome during the camp!! It was a great experience. | ||
Wednesday Dec 6 | ||
| Orienteering 50:00 [3] | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Relocation exercise with Joe Mercer on the Yewdale map - a wide-open area on top of the mountains surrounding the hostel. It took almost half an hour to hike up to the start - 225 meter of climb along the way. Great exercise - we did pretty well on all the relocations, except one when i was leading and got distracted by a couple of sheep on a hillside and ran towards them.
Map: http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy2/lakes3_06121... | ||
| Orienteering 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Line-O on Yewdale. Pretty easy to follow the line, even at some speed, since you can see everything so well. | ||
| Orienteering 30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Running with Joe and SGB (Stephen Granger-Bevan) collecting controls. By now, feeling pretty comfortable with the map and terrain. | ||
| Running 1:40:00 [3]10.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| After lunch, SGB, Joe, Graeme from Cambridge, and I went for a run to climb up the Old Man of Coniston (http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/coniston.jpg ; our hostel is the little white building at the bottom). Tough climb, aso tough on top in the wind and fog and, oh yeah, tough and rocky on the way down. Pretty tired by the end. Another great day, this one finished off by celebrating Kat's birthday in the pub in town. | ||
Tuesday Dec 5 | ||
| Orienteering 1:25:00 [3]7.08 km (12:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| Day 2 of the Lakes camp, on the High Dam map:
http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy2/lakes2a_0612... and http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy2/lakes2b_0612... A great area, with detailed hillsides and low areas with marshes and small knolls and dryland patches of bracken sticking out. This exercise consisted of long legs leading into clumps of controls close together in technical areas, and the idea was to plan the technical bits while doing the long legs. | ||
| Orienteering 20:00 [4]2.5 km (8:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| A "relay" as a way to pick up controls. A good opportunity to try running hard in this terrain. Very wet and tired by the end, but still enjoyable. | ||
| Hiking 1:00:00 [2] | |
| Climbing up a mountainside to see the "sunrise". Clearly a foolish idea in the rain, wind, hail, and dark, and with only a bike light to show the way. Surprised no one broke any limbs on the way down, but we all made it, safe and frozen, back to the hostel to grab some breakfast and get ready to head out orienteering in less than an hour. | ||
Monday Dec 4 | ||
| Orienteering 35:00 [3]4 km (8:45 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| OUOC/CUOC training camp in the Lake District. We stayed at a nice, cozy youth hostel in Coniston with a group of about 20 orienteers of varying ability, from relative newcomers to the sport to the likes of Joe Mercer and Ruth Holmes, British JWOC runners.
The first day of training was on Holme Fell, the most physical and hilliest map of the week. The map is at http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy2/lakes1_06121... The first workout ended up being a memory-O that Joe and i did together. It went well, and both of us kept up a pretty high pace the entire time, despite the wind and the piles of dead bracken in the way. | ||
| Orienteering 35:00 [2]2.33 km (15:01 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Control picking of a sort - the exercises was to find as many dot knolls as possible within a box on the map. I ran around pretty slowly, trying to read everything and get used to the map. To be honest, I didn't think this was great training - I am really not sure what I got out of it except getting more used to terrain and map. | ||
| Orienteering 35:00 [1]1.75 km (20:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Line-O with Kat: we kept an easy pace and talked about what features looked like in terrain and on the map. Good exercise for the first day on a map. | ||
| Orienteering 35:00 [3]4 km (8:45 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| An O-course after lunch - first picking up a control and then running the course. This was fun - a bunch of short, technical legs on a hillside to finish off the first day of the camp. And yes, oddly enough, each of my sessions today was 35 minutes. | ||
| Orienteering 46:00 [2]4 km (11:30 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| A middle distance course after lunch in the swampy areas - very wet, but fun orienteering. Started slowly and sped up gradually. Finished at almost full speed. | ||
Sunday Dec 3 | ||
| Running 10:00 [2]1.11 mi (9:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Warm-up / cool-down in the swirling wind. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:43:16 [4]*** 12.7 km (8:08 / km) +330m 7:12 / km | |
| spiked:19/24c shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| SYO National Event / Senior Home International at Burbage Moor, near Sheffield.
The Senior Home International is the competition between England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and they had their starts like two hours before us, so I didn't get to see them run. When we got there, the wind was blowing at about 60 mph, which made the map pretty useful as a sail. Other than that, the moor was a pretty physical place to orienteer with long stretches of tall heather making running difficult. I started reasonable well, despite twisting an ankle in the starting block, and caught a couple of guys early on. A couple of legs in the middle, 8-9 and 9-10, took forever - just a slog through the heather, then a few legs through actual forest followed by more heather. Running reasonably well until a big mistake on 19, where I ran less then five meters from the control three times, but never saw the small cliff it was one. Finally got it after relocating three times (>5 minutes) and, very tired by then, dragged myself around the rest of the course. Ended up 19th in elite, 18 minutes back of Alastair Buckley, who won. The map is at http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy2/burbagemoor_... | ||
Saturday Dec 2 | ||
| Running 12:00 [2]1.41 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| Running to and from University Parks. | ||
| Orienteering 48:30 [3]6 km (8:05 / km) | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| Running the H21 course from the Oxford street race on a beautiful, sunny Saturday morning. A fun course, and a great way to see Oxford. Highlights included crossing over a bridge that was completely underwater and running in knee-deep water for about 50 meters; getting stuck inside one of the colleges; and being kicked out of an underground garage that I was trying to get through.
This was really enjoyable, and makes me want to do more street races. Venice next year? Tomorrow we are headed north for a national event (Senior Home International) near Sheffield followed by a few days of training in the Lakes District. Probably no internet up there, so no updates for a few days. | ||
| C • mmm... sun sounds nice. 3 | ||
Friday Dec 1 | ||
| Running 1:06:30 [2]8.67 mi (7:40 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| A run around University Parks in Oxford, first three loops with Kat, then two more by myself. Nice to run in just one layer of clothes for a change! | ||
| Strength 5:00 [1] | |
| Ankles. | ||
