Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

A pretty casual effort around the waterfront in Helsinki. Sore early (both Achilles and inside right knee) but warmed up pretty well.

Leg 6 at Jukola (to find out why I was doing leg 6 and not 7 as advertised, have a look at the CSU thread). Never really felt totally in control but didn't miss anything big, all 15-30 seconders - biggest time loss was in extricating myself from a waist-deep marsh. Slow at the start but increasingly strong towards the end. Didn't really have the sense of making up places, but I suspect that's because I'm a worse runner and better navigator than most of those around me, so the ones I was passing were wandering around out of sight. Surprisingly never in a pack of any kind, although it was hard to tell who was on my leg and who was on 4, 5 or 7 (the leg 7 people were easy to pick as they zoomed away into the distance, but 4s and 5s were harder to tell apart).

C • toph 3

Event: Jukola
 

Short hit-out on the Jukola model map. Lacked concentration and missed too much, although again relocation functioning reasonably well.

A longer session today on one of the Jukola training maps. Flowing a lot better, although finding the climbs on soft ground draining - 14k on Sunday will be a severe test physically. One significant miss in the vaguer country, but still got out of it with only 90 secs loss when on previous trips it might have been 5 or 10 minutes, so making progress (slowly).

Event: Forssa Games
 

First run in Finnish terrain. Not easy to get into a running rhythm, especially in the rocky areas underfoot - Australia has them too but there the holes between the rocks aren´t covered with moss! One small mistake but otherwise navigating OK, compared to how I sometimes do here.

A decent first race in Finland, although still finding it hard to get any sort of physical fluency. About halfway down the field in the B race. Errors all small but annoying.