Training Archive: BorisGrIn the 7 days ending 2007-08-19:
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Sunday Aug 19 | ||
| Running 30:00 [3]3.75 km (8:00 / km) | |
| shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons | ||
| Middle distance model event. Ran a few controls easy, a few others hard. Felt pretty good and orienteered fine. A piece of the model map had a big blob of green that was circled and labeled "example of vegetation for the middle quali." We all thought that was just going to be a bit of the map. Boy, were we wrong! | ||
Saturday Aug 18 | ||
| Event: WOC 2007 | ||
| Running 24:50 [2]2.92 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| Morning jog in Kiev with Sam, Hillary, and Sandra. Very warm and humid already at 8:30am. | ||
| Running 15:00 [2]1.76 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2007 model Falcons | ||
| Warm-up for the WOC sprint qualifier. | ||
| Orienteering race 15:05 [5]* 2.9 km (5:12 / km) | |
| spiked:11/12c shoes: 2007 model Falcons | ||
| WOC Sprint Qualifier, Heat A.
Not even close. On one hand, it looks bad. A year of hard training later, and I am further from qualifying (1:05 away versus 0:37) and further down in my heat (23rd versus 20th) than in Denmark. So I am disappointed with the result. On the other hand, I didn't make more than maybe 15 seconds of mistakes, so there is not much more I could have expected from myself. This was also my best-ever world ranking score (1025 - first over a thousand!) and the best of all the North Americans yesterday. So there is some consolation in that. The course was very fast, not particularly technical, and without much route choice. You just had to go hard from the start, which I am not sure I did well enough. Due to the heat, I felt pretty lethargic and felt like I had to fight myself every step of the race, Hearing the cheering from the crowd and the many familiar voices as I was passing through the spectacor control was really inspirational and motivating, that was probably one of the high points of the day. But the real highlight was watching the countdown to make it official that Sandra made her first-ever WOC final, and shoving people out of the way to be the first one to hug and congratulate her, Seeing Marc cry as he came over to kiss her was almost way too disgustingly romantic for me, but really wonderful at the same time. It's so amazing seeing someone who you have known for years and whom you have seen work so hard and come so close finally reach the goal she so completely deserved!! I think that seeing moments like this is a lot of what doing orienteering is about for many of us who are in this sport. My heat results: http://www.6prog.org/iof/wre_res$.asp?ID=1183&how=... | ||
| C • Sandra's A-Final! 1 | ||
| C • Nice 1 | ||
| C • 1 | ||
Friday Aug 17 | ||
| Orienteering 30:00 [2]3.0 mi (10:00 / mi) | |
| WOC Sprint model event at Feofaniya. Not the most exciting of places - forested, with good visibility but pretty tall undergrowth and a good bit of nettles. Some steep, soft slopes too. Definitely different from the sprint in Denmark. If anything, reminds me of what the sprint in Japan was like. Also, much warmer here than even the warmest summer days in Uppsala have been. It might be quite tough to race at 3pm tomorrow. Otherwise, its nice being with the US team and just seeing orienteers throughoutour massive hotel. Everyone is here now. Time to race. | ||
| C • it's yours 1 | ||
| C • race well !
and a little ... 3 | ||
Thursday Aug 16 | ||
| Running 45:54 [2]6.12 mi (7:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes | ||
| One last run around the neighborhood with Rob before lift-off.
The goals are clear: run races I am happy with; beat the Canucks in the relay. :) The hopes/dreams are clear too: make at least one final. Let's see what happens. | ||
| C • Good luck dude! 3 | ||
Wednesday Aug 15 | ||
| Running 40:00 [2]4.71 mi (8:30 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| Warm-up, cool-down, running around the castle with Shep, and running to and from Rob and Allison's house. | ||
| Orienteering 18:03 [4]3 km (6:01 / km) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| Last hard training before WOC. Ran a sprint course that Mats designed for us and Allison hanged on the Castle map. Felt pretty dead running and made a couple of mistakes, too. Not the best run for me, but I think three days will be enough to recover for the Sprint qual on Saturday. | ||
| C • Best of luck and skill to you ... 1 | ||
Tuesday Aug 14 | ||
| Note | |
| http://www.oklinne.nu/index.php?page=news&id=2068
(I was asked to answer the questions in English, and Mats translated. My Swedish isn't nearly good enough yet to have written that.) | ||
| C • is there an english version of... 6 | ||
| Running 41:00 [2]4.56 mi (9:00 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| Warm-up, cool-down, jogging between intervals. | ||
| Running 10:00 [5]2.0 mi (4:59 / mi) | |
| shoes: Saucony 2006 | ||
| "Form-topping" intervals on the horse loop in Stadsskogen. Did 4 x (90 sec on, 60 sec off, 45 sec on, 2 min off) and then 4 15-second sprints. Felt fast and light. I should get a massage every week if it makes one feel like this!! Only did four reps to avoid overdoing it. Ran itto Rob out there, as well as Christer Eriksson who was fieldchecking for the new Stadsskogen map. Got attacked by a dog and ran through a bunch of nettles. Seems like very Ukraine-relevant training. | ||
| C • intervals 1 | ||
| Running 26:02 [2]3.0 mi (8:41 / mi) | |
| shoes: 2007 model Falcons | ||
| Jogging from Sunnersta out to Lunsen and then back with Albin. Spent some time trying to get used to my new compass. It seems to work okay. Also hung out and took pictures of people running the Ultralong Club Champs out in the forest.
Some pictures from tonight: http://my.opera.com/borisgr/albums/show.dml?id=336... | ||
Monday Aug 13 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Day off!
Got a nice, long massage from Annika this morning. There were definitely body parts she made hurt that I didn't know I had. | ||