Sunday Jul 13 |
 | Orienteering (Olomoucke Predmesti) 10:00 [3]1.2 km (8:20 / km) | |
| shoes: Salomon 3D Pro black #9 |
| 0852 - Spent a few minutes hanging toilet paper for the guys as a warm up to the Sprint Q an hour or two later. Good to get them in touch with the adjacent map. |
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| Watched the Sprint Final in Olomouc in the afternoon. |
Saturday Jul 12 |
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| (rest day) |
| Walked around the Model area for the Sprint Q. Not the greatest map, with quite a few inconsistencies. |
Friday Jul 11 |
| Orienteering (Heilsova Skala) 1:20:00 [3]6.75 km (11:51 / km) | |
| shoes: V-J Integrator |
| Training on the Heilsova Skala map west of Olomouc. I hung all controls for 4 x intervals of approx 1.5km each. I ran the last interval with the guys. Nice map, but undergrowth a bit grotty. |
Thursday Jul 10 |
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| Event: WOC 2008
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| Orienteering (V. Jerabech) 1:24:03 [2]9 km (9:20 / km) | |
| shoes: V-J Integrator |
| 13h25 - V. Jerabech map 1:15'000 west of Olomouc. I hung controls for a shadowing exercise, then we did a 3-star interval session. Map was 5 years old and already worthless. |
Wednesday Jul 9 |
| Orienteering (Svata Marta) 1:25:20 [3]6.8 km (12:33 / km) | |
| shoes: V-J Integrator |
| 1224 - Training on Svata Marta map 1:10'000. 5 min warm-up followed by 1km interval (uphill) with 4 controls. Then another star relay (4 loops) on top of a hill, with 1 min rest. Finished off with a 1.5km downhill interval with about 6 controls. Quite rocky and broken ground due to karst on top of the hill. |
| Orienteering (Rusky Hrbitov) 40:36 [3]4.5 km (9:01 / km) | |
| shoes: V-J Integrator |
| 1635 - Afternoon training session on a 1:15'000 map. 5 min warm up followed by 3 sets of intervals, each about 1 to 1.5km long. Steepish area, so planned a few good contour legs and finished with a bit of low visibility terrain. |
Tuesday Jul 8 |
| Orienteering (Lazce) 19:05 [2]*** 3.4 km (5:37 / km) | |
| 18c shoes: V-J Integrator |
| 1032 - Lazce - 1:4'000 2m. We tagged along with the Chinese for a sprint training in the northern suburbs of Olomouc city. Nice and fast terrain between apartment blocks. Wasn't running too well for first 7 controls (not reading ahead, still too rusty), but then settled down. Glad I won't be running Sprint at WOC, although only 1 Chinese guy came past me. They've been training in Czech full-time for the last 2 months... mmm. |
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| C • Races? 6 |
| Orienteering (Ledkova Hut) 1:01:47 [3]5.2 km (11:53 / km) | |
| shoes: V-J Integrator |
| 1604 - Training on Ledkova Hut 1:10'000 5m contours with whole team and Chris and Emily (NZ). 8 min jog as warm up, then 4 x star relay loops with various rest period. Finished off with relocation exercise / control picking through a technical area. |
Monday Jul 7 |
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| Still no maps. Went sight seeing today and a long walk in some woods nearby a castle some kms NE of Olomouc. |