Training Log Archive: Danish Dynamite

5.9km middle course with 485m of climb. This was the first part of it. I didn't realize to flip my map over so ran back to the start confused why the course ended at 11.

C • Climb 2

After making it back to the start I learned I had in fact mispunched so I decided to go back out and run some more of the course. I skipped a couple controls so everyone wasn't waiting for me

I felt my left knee a bit after the last two days runs so when it felt aggravated early on I opted to cut the run short. Only did one stride as I learned my knee wasn't too keen on them either.
I'm pretty sure the knee gets aggravated by any sideways motion as it was hurting after a few days in Hungary (with the sandy ground) to point I was taking out most of my warm-up exercises.

8x1000m starting every 5 minutes to make things easy. Started around 3:23 maybe and then sped up as went on down to 3:15

Just went for a run along the beach and the sandy paths just off it, took a brief stress relief brake about half an hour.

Started a bit over a minute after my start so I took a minute off my time. Overall didn't enjoy the terrain that much, too much ducking and crawling under branches. Started enjoying more when the course got out onto the dunes again for some controls.

C • Oringen 2

Not really actually running for about almost a minute of the time, as I stopped to properly tie my shoe and put my broken watch in my pocket and when I heard the beeping for the runner behind me to start I figured I should get going.
That being said I'm happy with the first 5 controls ...but then spent 3 minutes on a 30s second control when I looked at the wrong control description. From there on out I mentally lost it, goals and orienteering in general went out the window and I kept running up the mistakes for the next 18 controls (I did somewhat manage to recover from legs 13-18 when the course left all the green, but that didn't last)