Training Log Archive: Jan Erik Naess

Took a little while to get back into the groove of thinking for orienteering but by the end I had good flow and everything was going well. Massive mistakes at the beginning though... yikes

C • Into the grove 2

Coming into the race I felt really good physically. I didn't have any pain anywhere, had slept well, and was hydrated.

Mentally I was a bit of a mess. I felt calm, but I think that was more from a "lack of plan" kind of calm where I was just going out there to run, with only a vague plan: start slow and build.

The first problem with this plan was that I didn't do a good job following through. I wanted to stay with one guy o. My team who tends to do a good job building but I messed up and in the first 800m flew away from him. Then when I hit the first mile I was 20 seconds faster than I wanted to be: 4:47 instead of 5:05.

From there I didn't know ow to react. As an attempt to follow my plan I slowed down but that made me just continuously slow down more and more as the race went by.

That leads me to the second part of my mental prep that I messed up. Because I didn't have much of a plan I wasn't prepared for any deviation of the little planning that I had. So when I went out too hard on the first mile I wasn't mentally ready to do what I should have done: hang on as long and hard as I could.

As the race progressed I continuously was making weak decisions and I didn't have any motivation to kill myself and finish strong. So I got passed by probably 20-30 people in the last 300m.

The last part that hurt me mentally was me being scared of getting heatstroke. Last weekend it took a lot out of me and I tried to convince myself that I could just go out there and run till I died but the thought of getting heatstroke again scared me like getting a concussion playing soccer. And so even though I came prepared with a cooler of cold water and was well hydrated before, it was always in the back of my head and kept me from pushing my limits.

1mi warm up
6x100m strides
3mi jog
300m sprint
1mi cool down

Stretching

Plus 4x200m strides

I will try to update my training log, I now have a little bit more time after school and have my life under control :D

1min rest between each interval. All intervals had one 15sec sprint randomly placed
1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1

I was really hot so I didn't want to push myself past my limit. I decided to run hard for up to the second 4 and then rest and run on the 2 and 1 again

5min warm up
35min bike
5min cool down

Recovering from heat stroke

C • Again? 3