Training Archive: BorisGrIn the 7 days ending 2007-02-04:
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Saturday Feb 3 | ||
| Running 10:00 [2]1.11 mi (9:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Running to the start. | ||
| C • radio coverage 2 | ||
| Orienteering 45:01 [4]*** 5.5 km (8:11 / km) | |
| spiked:15/17c shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| OK Linne training day in Åkersberga, just north of Stockholm. The first training was a competition-type middle distance course, meant to be run at more-or-less racing speed. The terrain was great, with tons of detail, but the map was questionable in a couple of places, and footprints in the snow made orienteering a bit easier. I ran pretty well early on and caught Liutaras and Erik Jonsson, though Erik ran away from us after a while. Made a couple of bobbles in the middle of the course, but finished well, orienteering cleanly. Quite pleased with this run. The controls for this training were put out by Lina Bäckström's 80-year-old grandfather. It took him 4 hours, but it's still pretty cool. | ||
| C • Congrats from Goats 9 | ||
| Note | |
| Over lunch in the OK Österåker clubhouse, we got to listen to a lecture by Anna Bogren, the short distance World Champion from the 1993 WOC in the US. The talk was about setting and achieving goals. She didn't say anything revolutionary, but it was still good to be reminded that every time you go out to train, you should know exactly what it is you are trying to improve in and how this particular training will bring you closer to your goal. Of course, some things sound a bit too simple when a person who has seen the success talks about them. "You set the goals, put in the work, and then win the World Champs." Not quite as simple as that... | ||
| Orienteering 1:32:05 [2]10 km (9:12 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| Afternoon training - long map run on the huge and awesome Skeppsdal map. We were driven way out to the far edge of the map, and the course eventually brought us back to the clubhouse. The first part was a line-O in some of the finest terrain I've seen anywhere: nice, detailed, runnable hilltops not too rocky, not too green, just a pleasure to run through on this sunny, warm (+3C!) afternoon. Towards the end of the course, though, one of my O-shoes started falling apart (the sole is coming off - first time that's happened to me in about 7 years of running exclusively in VJ Falcons), and I took a shorter version of the course to get home without tripping over my feet too many times. Got in just before darkness fell anyway. | ||
| Note | |
| (sick) | ||
| Definitely caught a cold this week. Will almost certainly rest tomorrow. | ||
Friday Feb 2 | ||
| Pool running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Aqua-jogging with Zan at Fyrishov. The time went by pretty quickly. | ||
Thursday Feb 1 | ||
| Running 27:17 [2]3.52 mi (7:45 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| Morningjogg. Shuffled around the neighborhood to see which body parts still dared to function properly after the abuse they were put through last night. | ||
| Running 30:00 [2]3.53 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| Warming up, cooling down, and shuffling between intervals. | ||
| Running 10:00 [1] | |
| Secret Russian running drills. | ||
| Running 30:00 [5]5.22 mi (5:44 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| Intervals on bike paths and roads. Somewhat slippery around the corners. We did pyramid intervals: 1'-2'-3'-4'-5'-5'-4'-3'-2'-1', with 1' rest each time. Everyone was tired from last night, so the pace wasn't killer, which was nice for a change. | ||
| Strength 40:00 [1] | |
| Circuits with the club after intervals. Sore almost everywhere. | ||
Wednesday Jan 31 | ||
| Note | |
With the help of my dad, here  is a shot of us scouting the 2007 Ski-WOC location in 1984 or so. | ||
| C • Well known terrain 7 | ||
| Note | |
| Since the trend on AP seems to be leaning towards recounting real-life stories only somewhat related to orienteering, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon.
I went to the US embassy in Stockholm this morning to try to get extra visa pages added to my passport. It was like entering a prison or attempting to cross into East Germany at the Berlin Wall - giant grey buildings, barbed wire fences, surly guards. Everyone has to stand outside and wait just to be let into the little building where they search you and take away all your electronics, before you are directed towards one of the grey building, clearly designed with the 1960's Soviet Russia chic look in mind. When I was finally inside, I asked the girl working there if I could have pages added to my passport. The answer was, of course, "no", apparently because my passport is "falling apart", meaning I had to shell out some cash for a new passport. On the invoice, she circled two fees that I had to pay: $55 for the passport and $12 for something called the "security enhancement fee". Possessing of an inquring mind, I asked what that meant, and was told, with a straight fac e, the following: "We raised the passport fees recently, so to compensate for that, we are now adding this extra fee for security enhancement." After picking up my jaw off the floor, I begrudgingly paid (in dollars, since the "exchange rate" they proposed was based on the solid belief that the US economy was booming and the dollar was stuck on the value of its mid-90's heyday) and proceeded to get a mugshot taken in the photo machine outside. One terrorist scare later (some dude went to the bathroom and left a suspicious-looking package in the middle of the room, so we were about to be evacuated before the dude returned), I was standing in front of the consul explaining just how my passport came to be in such a sorry state. Apparently, either I looked sufficiently pathetic or my passport did or, most likely, both, because she seemed to believe that I need a new one and condescended to accept my money, including, of course, the ever-important "security enhancement fee". Before leaving, I dared to ask the consul if I could be allowed back into Sweden with just my US passport and an expired residence permit. With a warm smile on her lips and a sweet midwestern accent, she explained "If this were America, then of course we wouldn't let you in, but this is Sweden, and these people do things differently. You'll probably be ok." | ||
| C • Does Sweden, like USA, require... 2 | ||
| Orienteering race 2:07:02 [4]*** 17.3 km (7:21 / km) | |
| spiked:20/26c shoes: 2006-3 VJ Falcons | ||
| What a way to finish off January!
Tonight's Wednesday night-O wasn't just a regular course, but special training for the Long Night leg at Tiomila (just 86 days left!) This, of course, means running a forked, 17.3km, course at night in the snow. Mercifully, we ran at Hammarskog, which features a new map, a number of large trails, and not too much awful terrain. Despite some pretty awful night-O outings so far this year, I decided to take this evening as a challenge and see if I could finish in under 3 hours. Fifteen people showed up to run the long course, and I think only 3 of us were not ranked in the top 250 in Sweden. I was one of the last starters, meaning having to run fast right from the beginning if I were to have any hope of seeing others. It went well early on, as the course had a number of long route choice legs with plenty of trail options. I ran hard on the roads and trails and tried to be careful in the woods and just not lose too much time. This went ok, and I finished the first loop (11.7km) together with Ulrik in about 85 minutes. The second loop was more forked and more in the woods, and I started getting tired and worried that my lamp battery would run out, so I turned it down to the lower light. At this point, it was just about survival, and I slogged along from control to control, until finally the finish was in sight, and thoughts of a hot sauna took over. In the end, 10 of the 15 starters finished. I was 8th, abou 20 minutes behind Jan, who continues to be unbeatable this winter. I was very happy to survive and show a decent time, and am pretty sure that I could not have done this a year ago. Results: http://www.oklinne.nu/onsdagsnatt/results.php?id=2... Can't post the map, as the courses are being used for this year's district night champs in September. (We ran H21+some other course as the two loops). | ||
| C • Awesome. 2 | ||
Tuesday Jan 30 | ||
| Orienteering 1:33:51 [2]12.5 km (7:30 / km) | |
| shoes: 2006-2 VJ Falcons | ||
| Taking it easy tonight, so I decided to just run the 12km version of tonight's line-O. The course split off from the longer one pretty early on, and I suddenly found myself at the head of a group, where everyone (a few of the girls and a couple of 40+ guys) was clearly expecting me to navigate - a few of them didn't even have compasses. I was terrified, having never really led a pack during one of the Tuesday night runs for more than a few minutes. Luckily, this course went through some of the nicer areas of Nåsten, where it was actually possible to read the map on the run. It went surprisingly well - I had to stop and look around in a couple of spots, but mostly I managed to keep map contact at a reasonable pace the whole way and ended up really enjoying the run! Time goes by a lot faster when you are leading a group and worrying with every step that you are about to lead them into the middle of an uncrossable marsh than when you are just blindly following along. | ||
Monday Jan 29 | ||
| Biking 1:00:00 [4] | |
| Spinning. Sweaty as usual. | ||
| C • sweaty...... 1 | ||
| Strength 40:00 [1] | |
| Gym stuff with Zan. Lots of Linne people everywhere, as usual. | ||
| C • aww- I love our club and it's ... 1 | ||
| Note | |
| At one point someone (maybe Sandra?) mentioned in a comment on my log that OK Linne seems to have a website for every race.
Well, here is the webpage for next Wednesday's night-O training: http://www.oklinne.nu/documents/documents_open.php... | ||
| C • Hamstring? 2 | ||
| Note | |
| My dad just pointed out to me that this year's Ski -O World Champs will be held in the exact place we used to spend winter vacations when I was a kid and where I learned to ski.
http://moscompass.ru/wsoc2007/index.php?l=5 Ah, nostalgia... And on the topic of Ski-O World Champs: the US is listed as having entered 6 men and 5 women. Could that be right?? Do we really have that many ski-orienteers in the States? | ||
| C • Not only do they exist 4 | ||