Training Log Archive: bettypur

Getting spoiled at Albin's place.

C • Nice 2

-- eat sleep repeat. Nice to be able to avoid all this rain&mud.

1st leg in OK Linnés second team. Even if I had only slept for one hour (in case you wonder: no boats or other suspicious activities on the lake at both 1.45am, 3am, 4.30am, 5am, 6am and 7.15am - but can't tell you what happened between 7.30-8.30 because that was when I finally fell asleep) my legs were good!! Knew that it could go either this or the other way today, unfortunately it did the latter. Didn't get it together when we came up to the flatter area right before the first control, got reeeally stressed out and must have lost about 3-4' there already (I must have been at all of the forkings...). I'm an emotional wreck atm so from there on it was just painful, good it was raining so you could not see I was in tears for the whole course. Actually I don't remember much of the race, except from that it was going way too slowly back where I was running and that I got so annoyed about not being able to pass people. So no great performance, but glad I ran anyway. And happy to have such amazing team mates and friends taking care of me :).

Morning yoga with a view!! Sun was out, très jolie! And no moskitos, saywhaaat!

Model right at the arena. Good navigation, but the terrain really is tricky in some places (vague plus bad sight) so you have to keep it together all the way to the control!

Did not know whether I would find any control today, but my navigation was surprisingly good and my legs were surprisningly fast. Didn't understand the vegetation in every place as it suddenly could be quite green and restricted sight even though the map showed white. But orienteering seems to be a good way to channel thoughts atm.

FML. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uw6ZkbsAH8

Chaos. First I let myself get convinced to run the 1st leg in the men's relay on Saturday. One of the guys in my father's oldie-goldie-team had to back out short noticed. Don't know whether it is a good idea, but "YOLO!!", I told myself. I just hope I'm going to step on the right train from the beginning, because honestly, my night-O skills are not only rusty but rather non-existing... But I'm psyched for the adventure!!! Then SAS has obviously downgraded me from my Silverbonus, meaning I can only travel with handluggage. Love. That. And, as the cherry on top, the same airline is striking. So half an hour after I was told I could check-in, my flight from Sthlm to Helsinki got cancelled. So after desperately trying to find an alternative for about an hour, it's going to be the ferry from Sthlm anyway. So let's see whether I'm going to make it! :)

C • Destiny 1

C • Adventure 1

Tired legs today so I replaced the planned interval-session with an easy jog and some drills followed by 5 uphill-sprints (I know Venla is going to be quite flat, but I usually feel better uphill than flat so it was good for my ego).