Training Log Archive: kwilliams

Warm-up: trails and terrain. Legs feeling heavy, but more focused than yesterday.

Another disappointing day. I would have been satisfied, accept for one control (#5). Lost 5 minutes there. All the other controls were either clean or just smallish errors. Really annoyed about my performances so far because I know I am better than this. Just not feeling good - not feeling physically good and not mentally together. I wonder if there are too many things going on in other parts of life that have affected my preparation for this race. I will concentrate on clean runs in the B-finals, finishing in the top half, and a good sprint day.

Cool down. It was cold today, so quite cool even after the cool down. Hip is sore again, but not too bad, not like Jukola.

Warm-up on small map: loops around to look at different things. Having trouble getting focused (kept forgetting things I needed). Maybe the lack of sleep this past week, and the small stress of making sure everything was okay for the races (adminstraiton stuff).

An absolutely awful run. Was fine to the first control, no problem getting started on the map, but the concentration just started going onthe window. Made a small compass error on the way to number 2, corrected okay, but still lost time. Then in trying to read ahead on way to number 3, missed a trail junction and got totally confused. Lots of time lost there. Then the next controls were fine, but mentally not into the race anymore. Then another big mistake later in the race because got distracted by other runners. I have not done that since coming to Sweden; could be partially do to not having the energy to concentrate. Felt really tired and out of it the whole race. So pretty disappointed but I know what I need to focus on now for the rest of the races and things will be good from here on out. It is also a good to know that there is a B final, so I can get the brain back into the longer race. But still, sad face today.

Cool down with Sandy and Jo

Arms and back mostly, some leg. An easy session before EOCs.

Abs

Terrain och små stig med Jenny C. Didn't do forest intervals because tapering for EM. Hip feeling a bit better. Finally some nice weather!

Hike with Jason