Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Wasn't exactly at my best when I first started, but ended up a pretty relaxed and pleasant effort, exploring the back lanes north of Arhus. The last run of this European trip - on the plane from Copenhagen tonight.

Also took the opportunity to enjoy (probably) my last banana until going to Canada in November (that's a work trip, but as the meeting in question is at Niagara I'm going to try to get a run in on one of the North American Champs maps if I have time).

C • Banana 1

Suffering a bit of a motivation deficit at the start after missing out on the A final by 1 place (and by a bit more than 1 point, thanks to someone having a fast run late yesterday). The motivation deficit wasn't helped by some unpleasant green stuff early on and one very dodgy route choice, but got into it after a while and a decent second half. Again nothing lost on fine navigation, just on route choices (including one excursion into a chest-deep waterhole).

My best run of the week so far, hesitated a little on the way into 3 and a slightly dicey exit from 13 but otherwise a clean run. Still a bit on the slow side but I'm used to that by now. Although I haven't seen it yet, I suspect the WOC course (which was 200 metres longer) must have been a bit tougher than ours - on km rates our winner would have been top 15 in the WOC final and I don't think he's quite that good.

We'll have to wait until later tonight (or maybe tomorrow) to find out whether I've made the cut for the WOC tour final, but on preliminary results (and assuming one of the favoured late starters doesn't have a blowout), I think I'll miss out by 1 point (out of 2427).

A fairly easy run along the Ega seafront. In the light of yesterday's events I might have expected to have felt inspired, but this was actually a little flat for no obvious reason.

A bit unsettled and scrappy in the first third without any really significant errors, but got it together reasonably well after that, particularly when in a bunch in mid-course. Easier terrain today and it showed in the results - I felt my run today was better than Sunday's, but I was 2/3 of the way down instead of 1/3.

This was the IOF and press race. I felt pretty good, helped by the cooler weather (and a nice area close to Arhus), but the field was a lot stronger than I was anticipating (I'd hoped this might be a chance to win something...). Havard Tveite claims not to have trained for three years, but you don't have to believe him - he ran 31 (and a few Finns did pretty well too).