Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Planned as a fairly casual run before the park race. First 10 minutes was very hard going with a lot of stiffness, but the second half was terrific - definitely the best I've felt on a run since arriving in Europe. Must have been the inspiring industrial-estate-on-the-edge-of-nowhere scenery...

A little slow out of the blocks but running pretty strongly at the end. Fairly easy for a European old town race with only a couple of major route choices. One annoying mistake where I didn´t realise an electricity box constituted a ´building´. Managed to avoid injuring myself, which is something given that I have a somewhat unfortunate history with park races before major events (and that there is an unfortunate family history with park races in this part of the world). 7th in a field of 55, which is unusually good for me in a park race and suggests there may not be a lot of depth in the M35 field.

Event: WMOC 2006
 

Neglected to enter the warm-up event, which was probably no bad thing as I've been in the terrain a fair bit. Went for a track run instead which meant that I got to see what the green stripe looks like (not very nice) without actually having to run in any of it. Warmed up faster than on most recent runs and handled the long grind in the first half (300m climb in 4k) pretty well; got a bit of a stitch on the downhill but not a bad run on the whole.

Another so-so effort, although a better placing than yesterday. Again had trouble with small mistakes in the circle in the green, although the map was very difficult to interpret, with a lot of erosion gullies that looked like contours, and the print quality was poor (hopefully WMOC will be a lot better).

First day of the Vienna Prologue, in the Prater park. I was expecting this to be a park race, maybe with a bit of forest, and was therefore very surprised by the terrain - mostly pretty thick (but with a lot of tracks, all very muddy). Dead flat except for old bomb craters and some dry old watercourses. Not a brilliant run, finding it hard to pinpoint the controls in the flatter areas, especially where visibility was poor, and drifted too much on compass too. Still taking a long time to warm up.

A morning jaunt through the Munich suburbs. Not a brilliant run but started to stride out better in last 10 minutes.

C • QLD NOL 4

A pleasant recovery run around the rough tracks of Oslo, a bit stiff early after the weekend's racing but flowing nciely by the end.