Saturday May 31 |
 | Foot Running warm up/down 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: New Balance 800 |
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| Orienteering 40:00 [3]**** | |
| shoes: New Balance 800 |
| ran around the course the swedish juniors were running at Slättedamm. real nice day, supposed to be 28 so it was pretty warm. defo starting to feel better but i struggle as soon as its slightly uphill. made a fair few mistakes too, even though i was trying to go slower and get it right. |
Friday May 30 |
| Foot Running warm up/down 40:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Nike Pegasus |
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| Foot Running intervals 22:00 [4] | |
| ahr:158 max:181 shoes: Nike Pegasus |
| a bit of a Wingsted session with W&W on trails on Änggårdsbergen. 4 x 4mins with 2mins jog recovery. Pretty warm day so fortunately Werner was struggling, cause my lungs still aint real good so i wasnt running the quickest. still, feeling much better than yesterday, not as much coughing...
found myself 3 meters above the ground at one stage and wondered why, then saw the snake down on the track and realised my body had jumped, pure reflex. the king pythons you buy at the school canteen are more dangerous but. good session, feeling much better afterwards. |
Thursday May 29 |
| Foot Running (Recovery) 20:00 [2] | |
| ahr:134 max:151 shoes: Nike Pegasus |
| easy run up to sahlgrenska to borrow a mobile from a friend...
goddamn nokia. and goddamn sweden, why are things always more difficult here? things that take 10 minutes at home (like unlocking a phone, or changing phone companies while keeping the same number) take 10 working days in Sweden? |
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| C • weather 4 |
| Foot Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator |
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| Orienteering 25:00 [4]***** | |
| ahr:162 max:173 shoes: VJ Integrator |
| Jukola test at Öjersjö. Thought i felt ok, but as soon as i started running i just couldnt stop coughing. made it around about half of the course before i stopped. It was super training, mass start with splits. i was up with the guys at the front when i stopped so thats somn positive. so f*cken annoying to be sick. |
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| C • hope 2 |
Wednesday May 28 |
| Foot Running (Recovery) 50:00 [3] | |
| ahr:115 max:154 shoes: Nike Pegasus |
| real easy run around slottskogen. still got a nasty cough, but not feeling too bad. hopefully i'll be right again tomorrow... |
Monday May 26 |
| Note | |
| (sick) |
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Sunday May 25 |
| Foot Running long 2:05:00 [3] | |
| ahr:120 shoes: Nike Pegasus |
| Real easy run on small trails from Jonsered to GMOKs clubhouse at Skatås with Axe & Strand. Was supposed to be GMOK training... i felt crap, i gotta have a rest day tomoz and get over this cold. pizza and coffee in the sun after yeah. |
Saturday May 24 |
| Foot Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator |
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| Orienteering (Jukola Test) 1:00:00 [3]8 km (7:30 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator |
| At Slättedamm (same map as swedish jwoc trial middle distance). Real tough area, and i was feeling pretty ordinary. Just decided to run steady, and it went pretty good, except for 2 stoopid 2min errors and another bad route choice. still, finished 2nd which was good. i really enjoyed the orienteering... |
| Foot Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator |
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| Orienteering 35:00 [4]***** 5.5 km (6:22 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator |
| Solid tech training at Partille-Gunnilse using jwoc training controls. Feeling pretty tired and sick but tried to orienteer well running at a steady speed. Ran good i reckon, 2mins behind Junis who ran good so i was happy... |
Friday May 23 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| hoping to not get real sick, got a jukola training weekend coming up so need to be in good shape! |
Thursday May 22 |
| Foot Running 1:34:00 [3] | |
| ahr:130 max:162 shoes: New Balance 800 |
| long warm up, steady run arund the jwoc middle final and long warm down. feeling bad, getting a cold... |
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| C • oh bugger! 3 |
Wednesday May 21 |
| Foot Running warm up/down 40:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance 800 |
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| Foot Running intervals (Monagetti) 20:00 [4] | |
| shoes: New Balance 800 |
| Good session from candyman and candyladys place in sheffield, up Porter Brook to Burbage Moor. Real nice run. The first half of the session was uphill, so instead of just turning around and doing the rest on the rough downhill i split the session into 2 parts, and ran back down and did the second half on the flat. |
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| C • Escaping the oz winter in Sheffield... 3 |
Tuesday May 20 |
| Foot Running long 1:30:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance 800 |
| nice run with OJ (and candyman for the first bit) up in the peaks district near Sheffield. Cool run, nice scenery and a flat warm beer (black sheep bitter) after. sweet as. i had 2 fake meat pies right before which didnt make the run all that comfortable. the legs felt good but. |
Monday May 19 |
| Cycling (Road) (Tour de RobB) 2:05:00 [3] | |
| ahr:119 max:162 |
| borrowed candymans treadly and did a ride with RobB from Sheffield through a few towns in the Peaks District (Ringinglow, Hathersidge, Grindelford, Froggat). cracker ride, roads were a bit bumpy but the scenery was awesome - fells, forest, stone walls, villages etc and even a solid climb up out of Froggat. |
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| C • getting home 20 |
Sunday May 18 |
| Foot Running warm up/down 5:00 [2] | |
| shoes: New Balance 800 |
| very short warm up, the warm down was the last part of the course... didnt really feel like running, didnt sleep a single second thanks to nettle legs. even a couple of pints at the golden cross couldnt put out the fire. |
| Orienteering race 49:00 [3]*** | |
| ahr:147 max:166 shoes: New Balance 800 |
| Harvester Relay, dubbed as Englands 10mila. I was in SYO's 1st team, and we ran the B relay which was only 5 legs. I ran last and cruised around, and made a big mistake on a control on a pit in some green, plus lost more time on some other similar controls... the first half of the course was real enjoyable.
Craney, Nails, RobB, Sprotty, etc were in the SYO 2nd team and they won the A race. at least they were out there giving it a go. |
Saturday May 17 |
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| Event: Harvester Trophy Weekend
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| Event: JOK Chasing Sprint
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| Foot Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: New Balance 800 |
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| Orienteering race (JOK Prologue) 24:13 [4]*** 5 km (4:51 / km) +180m 4:06 / km | |
| ahr:170 max:180 shoes: New Balance 800 |
| At Bloom Wood, my first orienteering experience in Blighty. started quite good, but started making mistakes about 2/3 of the way around. just small ones, trying to hit controls sitting down low in pits surrounded byt all manner of under vegetation. pretty fast and easy and good fun except for the nettles. finished a disappointing 2.5mins behind Nails. |
| Foot Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: New Balance 800 |
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| Orienteering race (JOK Chasing Start Final) 22:10 [4]*** 4 km (5:32 / km) +130m 4:46 / km | |
| ahr:171 max:184 shoes: New Balance 800 |
| In the same area as the qual. Started in 7th, in the middle of a small group. We all (4th to 8th place) came together by the 3rd control, then i tried to break away up the hill to 4th. i f*cked it, but so did all the "lads" behind me, we prob lost a minute or so. we then had an awesome head-to-head match all the way to the end. i thought barrable would get me but i got the last few well and got a gap on him to finish 4th, we never made up enough ground to get close to RobB in 3rd, and Craney and Nails were battling for the win on their own (Craney got it). All super fun except for the nettles. |
Friday May 16 |
| Foot Running 55:00 [3]11 km (5:00 / km) | |
| ahr:126 max:137 shoes: New Balance 800 |
| cruisy run with fishwick in the morning around his village Histon and the fields nearby. nice run, some typical english lanes and fields and bridleways and rain. |
Thursday May 15 |
| Foot Running (Recovery) 31:00 [2] | |
| ahr:123 max:134 shoes: Nike Pegasus |
| easy run with Wernis around Härlanda Tjärn in the morning. Feeling good.
Flew to England in the arvo, with a bit of running (until some guy in a sickmad AMG stopped to give me a lift) towards Säve airport after i missed a connecting bus. Good coffee with Fishwick at a Hoggster-verified cafe in Cambridge (Savino's?). |
Wednesday May 14 |
| Foot Running long 1:35:00 [3] | |
| ahr:124 shoes: Nike Pegasus |
| running to/from Hisingen with Tise for the sprint cup. mostly on cyclepaths. powered down some peanuts, a smoothie and a folkis after. |
| Orienteering 17:00 [3]**** | |
| ahr:162 max:174 shoes: VJ Integrator |
| "race" in gothenburg sprint series. mostly in the forest, and quite tricky. i made a couple of mistakes, just had real bad direction today. not really concentrating, prob would be better off not running if i'm not gonna give it the full mental effort. |
Tuesday May 13 |
| Foot Running long 1:30:00 [3] | |
| ahr:125 max:160 shoes: New Balance 800 |
| solid run in terrain and small trails at Skatås with the GMOK guys (well some of them, axe, junis and ols). feeling a bit dizzy in the beginning, probably cause i drank a coke on the way to the clubhouse. ran through the bit that burned a couple of weeks ago, smells just like home. |
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| C • burnt forest 3 |
Monday May 12 |
| Foot Running long 1:35:00 [2] | |
| ahr:122 shoes: Nike Pegasus |
| another cruisy run with werner unt werner through skatås and björnåsberget. another nice day, but a bit cooler. sweet. |
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| C • monkeys 2 |
Sunday May 11 |
| Foot Running warm up/down 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Nike Pegasus |
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| Orienteering race (Orintos Middle Distance) 40:00 [4]**** 5 km (8:00 / km) +200m 6:40 / km | |
| ahr:158 max:173 shoes: Nike Pegasus |
| started quite good but then it all went bad... missed so many controls, nothing real big but every time i missed i lost a bit more motivation. real green and crappy, so you needed to be keen to fight through it. i felt pretty tired too, not so good for terrain like this! shame really, it was technical so i should have done better. |
Saturday May 10 |
| Cycling (Road) 3:30:00 [2] | |
| ahr:121 |
| borrowed axemans merckx and rode out to the weiharts at bollebygd (90mins or so) then took a 2 hour tour of bollebygd shire with bretty. stopped for a coke and a muffin half way around then coffee at the end in the bygd. bloody awesome day, sunny and warm and mostly good roads. and no tradies in utes... |
Friday May 9 |
| Foot Running (Recovery) 51:00 [2] | |
| ahr:115 max:131 shoes: Nike Pegasus |
| easy run with werner fikus at Skatås. warm day, but felt tired and dizzy. need a beer. intravenous. |
Thursday May 8 |
| Foot Running (Recovery) 28:00 [2] | |
| ahr:128 max:140 shoes: Nike Pegasus |
| easy run with w & w around härlanda tjärn. another ripper of a day in gothenburg. |
| Foot Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: New Balance 800 |
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| Orienteering intervals 53:00 [4] | |
| shoes: New Balance 800 |
| at Ruddalen. test ran the jwoc sprint course (picked up a gold medal ahead of junis and ols) then ran the course again with a bunch (pronounced with an american accent) of gmok guys, running as an intervals session testing route choices (which may or may not exist). ripper of a training session.
"the new guy ripped us off 10 grand. now we gotta find the cnut and do him." guess what we watched the other night. |
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| C • map 10 |
Wednesday May 7 |
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| more maps from training and races here... |
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| C • maps 15 |
| Foot Running warm up/down 1:00:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance 800 |
| running to johanneberg via skatås, then run back after "race"... nice warm arvo. |
| Orienteering 16:00 [3]**** | |
| ahr:152 max:171 shoes: New Balance 800 |
| sprint series at johanneberg, same map as the super elite prologue at the 5 days in 2004. didnt run as good as i did back then, made some mistakes. and my new SI stick didnt work in most of the controls so i didnt get a result. not too disappointed about that ;) |
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| C • map 3 |
Tuesday May 6 |
| Foot Running long 1:40:00 [3] | |
| ahr:115 max:139 shoes: New Balance 800 |
| cruisy run with axeman in terrain and on small trails around skatås. nice arvo, only intended to run for half an hour but it got extended... dinner at the gmok palace after hit the spot. |
Monday May 5 |
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| Check out the dodgy OCAD work on the Swedish Sprint Champs map. See the path intersections - like the one on the edge of the circle at 6, they got the colour heirarchy wrong. btw this was probably the best leg on the course.
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| C • sm sprint 4 |
| Note | |
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| heres some other maps... |
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| C • maps 9 |
| Foot Running (Long) 1:35:00 [3] | |
| ahr:120 shoes: Nike Pegasus |
| cruisy run with werner unt werner on small trails through skatås and out to björnåsberget for some running in the oak forest. nice, real nice day. but felt pretty crap. need a beer. |
Sunday May 4 |
| Foot Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator |
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| Bingo race (Ulricehamns RSL) 34:30 [4]**** 5 km (6:54 / km) | |
| ahr:161 max:172 shoes: VJ Integrator |
| Middle distance in the same area as yesterday. Still feeling ordinary. Started fairly steadily and ran well for the first few controls, but then the bingo master called a number noone had, number 4. Ran around trying to find a small cairn (the only one on the map) in an area of young pines full of rock cairns and boulders with about 2m visibility, and people running around everywhere searching. i even heard stories of people standing still and holding their breath to listen for the beep of the SI unit. i only lost about 2mins but lost all my motivation. the map for the rest of the course was dodgy too - not sure if i didnt notice yesterday cause it was 1:15000 or we just didnt go into the dodgy areas... finished up 4mins behind emil lauri. now i gotta get healthy and back into the training. |
Saturday May 3 |
| Foot Running warm up/down 25:00 [2] | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator |
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| Orienteering race (UOK Long) 1:26:50 [4]**** 12.5 km (6:57 / km) | |
| ahr:167 max:177 (sick) shoes: VJ Integrator |
| woke up this morning feeling crap again, and almost decided not to go out to Ulricehamn. but figured i'd go and see how i felt when we arrived - the elitserien was on at the same time so there'd be something to watch anyway... of course i couldnt go all the way out there and not run so i ran ;) just cruised around really, felt ok but definitely not 100%, and had a really good race technically (besides 1 bad route choice) until the 16th, with only about 1.5km to go. probably the easiest control on the course and so i reckon i relaxed a bit, and made a 2.5min mistake. so f*cken annoying, goddammit.
we went to some cheapo shopping town after and i heard some girls talking english so looked around and one of them was anna jenkins. small world. not really though, she lives in jonköping. |
Friday May 2 |
| Orienteering 50:00 [3] | |
| shoes: New Balance 800 |
| cruising around Eriksberg with Axenbög checking out the sprint course he's planning for one of the rounds of the spring sprint series. testing a few route choices with some sections of harder running. feeling ok but still far from 100%. nice hespresso and cinnamon scroll by the water at some cafe afterwards. |
Thursday May 1 |
| Foot Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
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| Orienteering race (Swedish Champs Sprint) 13:23 [5]3.5 km (3:49 / km) | |
| (sick) shoes: New Balance 800 |
| at Mariestad. Well i still felt pretty ordinary but i aint Swedish so i ran anyway. Probably shouldnt have, and i wouldnt have missed anything. one of the worst courses i've run - easy, no route choice! just a running race, and my lungs didnt want to run fast. i made a tiny mistake on the 1st control, prob only lost 4 seconds, otherwise i was going as fast as i could. still didnt make the final, missed out by 4 seconds - i was 52 seconds behind Wingstedt who won my heat (and the final). pretty happy to sit ouot the final hactually as i really wasnt feeling up to it. drank coffee and ate negerbollar instead. |
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| C • mwaaaa 2 |