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Training Log Archive: Danish Dynamite

In the 7 days ending Mar 6, 2019:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m
running	14	4:26:15	30.17	(8:50)	48.55	(5:29)	341
orienteering - General	7	4:01:03	27.19	(8:52)	43.76	(5:31)	627
Strength	1	20:00
Total	16	8:47:18	57.36		92.31		968

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Wednesday Mar 6, 2019 #

5 PM

running 32:00 [2] 5.92 km (5:24 / km) +212m 4:35 / km

Got up at 5:15 to make sure I got the only train (or connections) to Portalegre. So an easy run later to move the legs. 3k up the hill/mountain along a road and then took a trail I found down.

Tuesday Mar 5, 2019 #

9 AM

orienteering - General 1:23:30 [3] 13.75 km (6:04 / km) +265m 5:32 / km

Watched stopped part way and had to restart so added 830m to make it 13.75km.
First 20 controls were quite poor. Got there and decided, I’ve royally fucked this, so might as well just try and do some decent orienteering on the last 8 controls and actually feel I’ve done something. Granted there wasn’t much green in this final portion, but I’m still happy with the ending at least.

running warm up/down 20:00 [1] 3.5 km (5:43 / km)

12 PM

running warm up/down 5:45 [1] 0.91 km (6:19 / km)

Monday Mar 4, 2019 #

9 AM

running 20:30 [1] 4.02 km (5:06 / km) +23m 4:57 / km

Late start so easy morning run to shake out the legs

1 PM

running warm up/down 25:00 [1] 4.0 km (6:15 / km)

Model map so some orienteering to start off the warm up

orienteering - General race (Day 3) 33:57 [4] 6.46 km (5:15 / km) +140m 4:44 / km

Improvement over yesterday. No big mistakes and felt I was anticipating where the control would be quite well. Started a bit slow and then Albin ridefelt sprinted past me so figured should probably pick up the pace. Most of my time loss was due to me swerving or in general feeling like my orienteering was a little drunk.
Goal tomorrow is again to keep the plan and walk out of control. However I’ll “draw” a route on my map, look up and keep to it.
Also climb is from map.

C • Maps 4

2 PM

running warm up/down 6:30 [1] 1.12 km (5:48 / km)

Sunday Mar 3, 2019 #

10 AM

running warm up/down 25:00 [1] 4.42 km (5:39 / km)

orienteering - General 37:38 [4] 6.89 km (5:28 / km) +170m 4:52 / km

Just gave myself the climb on map. Better today, focused on walking out controls and making sure I actually had a plan, still a few minute mistakes but stuff to improve on tomorrow.
I’m happy I knew where I was in a bubble the whole time, but a few mistakes or hooks in the circle or attacking controls. Largest mistake is when I went to cross a river, but thought a small clearing was the trail and got stuck in thorns trying to cross. Also bearings were a bit off at times.

running warm up/down 5:00 [1] 0.89 km (5:37 / km)

Saturday Mar 2, 2019 #

12 PM

running warm up/down 25:00 [1] 4.2 km (5:57 / km)

orienteering - General 43:20 [4] 7.32 km (5:55 / km)

Day 1, mispunched. Alright race other then that. Made one big mistake on a short leg in green, and well small ones on pretty much every leg that wasn’t short. I just didn’t have a good enough plan and was being pushed around by the green.
That being said, I did enjoy the terrain, it was a lot trickier then expected with the limited visibility and subtle contour features, and I can be happy when I made mistakes I stayed calm.

1 PM

running warm up/down 5:30 [1] 1.0 km (5:30 / km)

8 PM

running warm up/down 20:00 [1] 3.56 km (5:37 / km)

orienteering - General 13:08 [4] 3.3 km (3:59 / km)

Pretty frustrated with the race. A few agonizing moments waiting for an old man to punch a control, a few legs with hesitations where I lost time, losing 15-20s on the go control, and really mainly being 1 minute behind the leader. I should probably also invest in SI air.
The big mistake, I took the slower alley and stopped at the bottom, I thought maybe I hadn’t actually punched 19 so ran back to it, realized I was being an idiot part way back and just went to the go control.

9 PM

running warm up/down 5:00 [1] 0.89 km (5:37 / km)