Sunday Nov 26 |
 | Orienteering 1:05:00 [2]5.42 km (12:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons |
| Setting and picking up controls on the Norby part of Stora Vandan.
Spent the day worrying about the race and hoping things would go well. We managed to have great weather: 11C, windy, but sunny - a rare day for Uppsala in November! About 45 people ran the race and most seemed to have a good time. I'd say my first course setting experience in Sweden was a successful one - at least i haven't received any complaints or death threats yet. More details plus, hopefully, maps, tomorrow. For now - bedtime. |
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| C • great course 4 |
Saturday Nov 25 |
| Orienteering 1:40:00 [2]7.14 km (14:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons |
| Hanging more controls on Nasten. Managed to finish before the rain came in. Scared off some very large, or at least loud, beast in the forst, but never got to see what it was... Still waiting for my first Swedish moose. |
Friday Nov 24 |
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| Went to see Thonny about my achilles. He decided the problem wasn't with my achilles, but was just a "fiber knot" at the very bottom of my calf. He also said it'll just go away on its own in a few weeks. Let's hope so. |
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| Day off to celebrate Thanksgiving. Spent the evening hosting a fantastic one-day-late Thanksgiving dinner prepared by Suzanne and Viktoria. Lots of yummy food and good company. |
Thursday Nov 23 |
| Orienteering 1:50:00 [2]7.86 km (14:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons |
| Hanging flags for Stora Vandan in north and central Nasten. A nice day - not too cold (+3C) and misty. Very pretty in the woods, but still extremely wet. A couple of the swamps were bright red - kind of freaky, actually. I wonder how that happens.
Got very tired towards the last half-hour, needed to concentrate really hard to find my own streamers... |
| Running 20:00 [2]2.35 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes |
| Getting lost during the warm-up with Ulf, Joffe, and a few others, plus cooling down after the sprint. |
| Running 5:00 [1] | |
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| Secret Russian running drills after the warm-up. |
| Orienteering 22:30 [4]** 3.9 km (5:46 / km) | |
| spiked:12/16c shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes |
| Another night sprint. This one was more informal than last week's, with no timing, streamers instead of reflectors, and fifteen-second start interval. The short start interval actually made this great training for racing under stress, and most of us failed pretty spectacularly. I took a couple of stupid route choices and then couldn't hang with Ulf, Joffe, and Lars in the end - just really tired after a long day.
Map: http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy2/backlosa_061... |
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| C • thanks 2 |
| Strength 45:00 [3] | |
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| Circuits with the club after the sprint plus ankles/balance afterwards. Tired, but still fun. |
Wednesday Nov 22 |
| Running 5:00 [2]0.56 mi (8:55 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons |
| Warm-up and a tiny little cool-down. |
| Orienteering 45:51 [3]*** 4.93 km (9:18 / km) | |
| spiked:6/9c shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons |
| Wednesday Night-O at Jumkil South. As usual, started too fast and panicky and blew 3 of the first 4 controls. The terrain was pretty technical, and made tougher by the reasonably think fog in many places. After the 4th control, I settled down and managed to avoid screwing up towards the end. Ended up with the best time on the short course, helped by the fact that Albin ran long and Anders Eriksson spent ten minutes searching for a reflector that was on the ground. Still, a decent run, and I even felt like I was in control of my orienteering at times.
Results at http://www.oklinne.nu/onsdagsnatt/results.php?id=1...
Map at http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy2/jumkil_06112... |
| Strength 5:00 [1] | |
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| Ankles. |
Tuesday Nov 21 |
| Orienteering 1:21:00 [2]11 km (7:22 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons |
| Tuesday night run in the rain. The woods were a giant mudbath, but this was my first time running in neoprene socks this fall, and so everything felt warm and strange pleasant. The achilles hurt, but didn't get worse as the run went on. Aside from that, i felt great and really enjoyed the run. Just to be cautious, i did one of the shorter loops, which meant i actually ended up navigating by myself for the last few kilometers, which is pretty rare on these Tuesday runs. It was particularly hard since tonight we used a map from 1997, and lots of trails and vegetation has changed. |
Monday Nov 20 |
| Strength 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| Monday night gympa before going over to Rob and Allison's for a yummy dinner! |
