Training Archive: SebbaIn the 31 days ending 2006-10-31:
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Tuesday Oct 31 | ||
| Running hills 45:00 [3] | |
| Down at sunnersta, a sweet little hill figure-8 loop of about a km. was planning on running more but by the 7th loop i walked the big hill so decided after 8 laps to go to a haloween party instead.
it was so friggin cold even when i was running which is unusual for me. | ||
Saturday Oct 28 | ||
| Running 1:10:00 [3] | |
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The mind wanted to do intervals today but the body didnt, so we reached a compromise of enjoying the beautiful day and the fact i am living in sweden. ran over to the rickoberga forest track, lap and a half then over to berthåga kyrkgården and round the back of stenhagen. hadnt been concentrating but was thinking i must be getting close to flogsta soon, then popped out at the stenhagen ICA still like 10min run from home.....turned out id been running the opposite way to what i thought.....oops, good thing the O season is over! | ||
| C • snus 3 | ||
| Note | |
| I never thought this day would happen......
I can say that i have been to a nightclub in orienteering clothes. had a costume party here at flogsta last night and 3 of us decided to be the swedish squad. the girls had these wicked blue silk capes. i had blue O pants, swedish long O socks, yellow boxers over the pants, blue shirt with a yellow one over the top hacked apart to look like a flag and a swedish buff. geez its a good thing we had all had a few otherwise we might have felt a bit selfconscious at snerikes nation last night! | ||
Friday Oct 27 | ||
| water stuff 1:00:00 [5] | |
| Solid session dis arvo at fyrishov with boris, zan and kim. hit up 15mins of aquajogging (woulda done more but got bored too quick!), some waterslide/stair ints, diving board work (1,3,5,7 and 10m ), hot tub and sauna. really spent more time than this there but to be fair we spent a fair bit of time talking and not training | ||
Thursday Oct 26 | ||
| Orienteering intervals 1:10:00 [3] | |
| Night ints in stadskogen. it was called tennis-OL, never really figured out why cos didnt see any balls, rackets or björn borg clothing.....but hey, why not
good fun. with a proper headlamp (thanks Kat!!) i could for the first time see where i was actually going. navigating really cleanly for the first 4-5 ints, then i think a combination of complacency and tiredness mean i stuffed some controls in the last few. good training, despite the rain. went to the short film festival with boris, zan and zuzanna after nailing a whole pizza in about 10 minutes. some pretty crazy films....most notably from poland and finland, no reflection of the countries though | ||
| Running 45:00 [3] | |
| run from flogsta to clubhouse and stadskogen then the stumble back home. i was considering stopping at Rob and Als place to try and fuel up but i dont think they would have appreciated the state of me.
get home and swiping my card to get into my corridor and these 3 swedish girls walk down the stairs all pimped up ready for a night at stockholms nation. they offer a 1/2 hearted hello, give me the once over and continue down the stairs giggling and giving me strange looks. dont know if it was the headlamp, the hunchbacked look from a battery underneath my Otop, my scary mohawk or just being covered in dirt and foliage! obviously some part of that look is not acceptable in sweden | ||
Tuesday Oct 24 | ||
| Running 1:10:00 [3] | |
| 1st distansbanan in nåsten!!
got back from göteborg this arvo, raining there, really raining in uppsala!! Great fun once we got going post run sauna training also, of course | ||
Monday Oct 23 | ||
| Running 50:00 [3] | |
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Had a couple of days checking out Göteborg with an friend from uppsala. Cool city, would have liked some more time there. Managed to crash at some AR friends place in Sisjön. went for a run in the forest near where i was staying called sisjön. I think O-ringen might have been run on this map a few years ago. ran about 3km of an old red course but was starting to get really cold in all the marshes so stuck to tracks for the last 20mins. I really enjoyed the terrain, far more interesting than uppsala terraing. great running in the white, really physical in the green and some nice technical orienteering in there too. was planning a run in the forest next to the botanical gardens while my friend had coffee but she wanted to abort that trip cos of the weather. maybe another time | ||
| Cycling 1:25:00 [3] | |
| As soon as i got back from running, Anna got home and was going out for a road ride and asked if i wanted to come on Anders roady......SWEEEEETT.
borrowed some essentials, shoes that mist have been 4 euro sizes too small (ouch) and a gorgeous full 105 Bianchi!!!!!!!!!!!! made my day. I decided i defo want my next bike to be one, i see why crazy dave raves about them now. great evening ride out to the coast and cruised south for 15km with the sun setting before coming back round to complete the loop. Anna and i both wore way too much clothing so both burnt up once we turned back inland and started the rollers. Never ridden with a girl before (well except kezza), good fun having a chat on the flats and then duking it out up some hills. riding a roady after 2.5months on a swedish military bike i felt like someone coming out of retirement, i knew what i had to do but my body just didnt want to! the toes werent very happy with me the next day, it was worth it though. The old Giant is gonna get a workout when i get back home | ||
Thursday Oct 19 | ||
| Running 19:53 [3] | |
| An aborted 10km track time trial.
planned to run the whole thing and was feeling pretty good going into it. dont really know what went wrong, pace felt steady but after 4km i somehow decided it would be a good idea to quit after 5. a swedish friend was in town for the night so i had to run home to meet her and i actually think was running back home faster than i did on the track...maybe not tho | ||
| Running 35:00 [3] | |
| ride over/ run back to/from flogsta.
riding thru stadskogen without a light at 6pm i couldnt see anything, kinda scary to think how bad its gonna get in winter, might be time to start carrying a light. there is always the trusty phone light though! | ||
Tuesday Oct 17 | ||
| Running 55:00 [3] | |
| my memo was going nowhere so rather than sitting there stressing i went out for a run to calm down.
headed over thru stadskogen to MIC then up round the castle. dont know what was wrong with me but was seeing stars after 15minutes running. settled down a bit, did a few hill ints round slottet then back to flogsta. i think i am going to have to concede and wear a thermal running, i cant remember the last time i had to do that but its getting too cold even for me.... planning christmas travels. its looking like a week in åre skiing (well learning at least!), a swedish christmas, hopefully head to copenhagen for a few days then berlin/prague for new years....im pumped | ||
| Running long (terrain + marsh!) 1:43:00 [3] | |
| långpass in nåsten.
these night group runs are a lot of fun. cant wait until its snowing and we are freezing our balls off! headlamp died 1/3 way round so a few people must have been wondering why they had a big aussie dude running 1 foot behind them. felt very sore after. i think playing hop scotch for 2/3 of the run had something to do with it though we have a 10km time trial on thursday which should be ripper | ||
Saturday Oct 14 | ||
| AR race 7:45:00 [3] | |
| RAID UPPSALA!!!!
out at fjällnora, 25km east of uppsala great fun day, really glad i did it instead of going to amsterdam and running a boring marathon suzanne (armstrong, USA WOC rep) and i did the long course. finished about 110mins behind the winners which is pretty good i reckon, those guys were friggin fast in the first 2 legs when we saw them plus we had borrowed bikes. 2.5km run. 8.5km paddle, 10km orienteering, 5km MTB, 5km run, 17km MTB, 4.5km paddle (including spurtpris!!) and 5km run to bring it home no dramas or mechanicals. we sucked a bit on the paddling. i decided it woudl be fine in an o top and short tights for the first paddle, wasnt a very pleasant experience! had a cool suspended cargo net thing during 1st run. hmmm, late for class, maybe more later | ||
| C • good work 2 | ||
Thursday Oct 12 | ||
| Running 1:35:00 [4] | |
| Night running on the backbanan
13km loop but had no idea how much i was gonna run cos adv race on sat and ITB grief. after 20min run over i figured i had to at least do some and felt good so just rolled with it. the old petzyl started letting me down after 8-9km when we were down to 6 ppl so i just stuck with mats, boris and marie and followed the light. marie and i decided to roll home after about 11km. shit boring run so good chance to practice some swedish :) | ||
Tuesday Oct 10 | ||
| Running 1:30:00 [3] | |
| Stads - OL!!!!!!!!!!!
15km course from the clubhouse around town. looking around before we started i was one of the only people in shorts and only an o-top but decided that is a common enough feeling for me i should get away with it, plus its only early october, if i resort to multiple layers now what will i do in january! started steady for the first few km. my ITB was starting to give me some bother on the long leg to near fyrishov so i dropped the 2 northern controls cutting 2km maybe so i could back off a bit and get home at a reasonable time. got caught by mats and boris on the way to 8 near sten sture. coming back thur stadskogen i was REALLY wishing i had some sort of light, but got home ok. really good fun training, i might try and organise one back in berra sometime legs are going to hurt tommorow, i hope this ITB thing is just a niggle | ||
Sunday Oct 8 | ||
| Running intervals 30:00 [4] | |
| had a toga party last night so wasnt keen for that long a run today. cruised over to rickoberga skogen and ran ints around the lit track (of course, it wasnt lit during the day).
ran 90sec hard/ 60 off/45on/ 2minutes off X 8 felt pretty good but there is definately something not quite right in the legs after oslo last weekend rather than study i had a 3hour fika! gotta love sweden | ||
Saturday Oct 7 | ||
| Event: 25-manna | ||
| Orienteering race 44:00 [3] | |
| 25-manna
sweet, my first big scandinavian relay......and it pissed with rain all day. was just running for the 3rd team on the 7th (last split) leg. only blue was a 90degreer on the way to the 3rd loosing a few minutes. after that i was freaked about being last back so flogged myself the rest of the course but in the end still had 6-8 minutes in hand. bought some sarvas a few weekends ago and i think today was only my 2nd or 3rd run in them, if i didnt have them today i wouldnt have been able to move forward on the tracks they were so muddy! | ||
Friday Oct 6 | ||
| Orienteering 1:35:00 [3] | |
| been a bum all week. thought it was time to see how the legs were.
ran some 1.5km interval loops from a training i missed a couple of weeks ago just in the forrest south of the linne club house. felt good, not much soreness left from last weekend | ||
Sunday Oct 1 | ||
| Running race (Oslo Marathon) 3:52:00 [3] | |
| hmmm...interesting day....great fun.
had very little idea what to expect......definately wanted comfortably under 4 hours but apart from that would see how things went and take it as it comes. promised myself that whatever happened i would just enjoy the day and the experience. thru 5km in 22:20, possibly a bit quick given i run 5km just under 20min, but was feeling settled in a little pack so went with it. thru 10km (S/F) in 44:45 and out onto western loop. legs started feeling very sore on thru here, came thru 1/2 thong in 97flat...5 minutes faster than i ran the canberra 1/2 last year but i figured i am much stronger now than i was then. things kinda fell apart on the 2nd eastern loop with a lot of soreness making running quite painful. back thru start finish again and 31km the pace was really pedestrian and just wanted to make sure i finished. it was a bit sad to be reduced to one of those crippled runners trying to drag it home, but oh well. stoked for the experience but i can only help but think what might have been. next time. definately think the orienteering curse of a lack of road kms was a big issue and i suppose pacing as well....i just figured mentally it is probably better for me to just try and go with it when feeling good and work thru it when not. | ||
| C • good stuff 3 | ||