Friday Jun 22 |
 | Running 25:05 [4] | |
| ahr:144 max:181 slept:11.0 shoes: Saucony Cohesion |
| Went for a morning loosen up session. 5 mins jogging, 2 sets of strides, then three terrain 90 second intervals with 1 minute rest. Legs feeling much better after all the sleep and resting and stretching etc. |
| Orienteering race 53:28 [4]***** 5.4 km (9:54 / km) +205m 8:19 / km | |
| ahr:178 max:191 spiked:12/20c slept:11.0 shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Well, in good things, my legs felt really good. Unfortunately my brain appeared to be left in Stockholm. I thought I crossed the World Cup start line feeling focussed and with a plan, but that plan went out of the window straight away, trying to drift into number one instead of going from my definite attack point (the marsh corner with boulder), I got caught by Sandra before getting number one, and from then on it was a mental disaster, with me running her race instead of mine. Even when I lost her halfway through was constantly looking over my shoulder and when Laura caught me she had the same effect. Really disappointed with myself as I can't remember the last time I orienteered that badly. The first couple of errors totally knocked my confidence and there were three times I came to within breathing distance of the control then had a confidence crisis and ran off again. Couldn't keep contact into the circle and was constantly thinking about others performance instead of mine, which is not something I normally think about at all when orienteering. A really disappointing way to end the two weeks away. |
Thursday Jun 21 |
| Orienteering 44:46 [4]***** 4.1 km (10:55 / km) | |
| ahr:165 max:185 spiked:13/16c slept:11.0 shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| After a long sleep went to the model event on Jarekollen. Took it pretty easy to get really familiar with the map. Really easy to lose contact but excellently mapped. Physically still feeling like shite, really similar to yesterday, so spent the afternoon resting, with a leg massage and ice bath and long stretch. |
Wednesday Jun 20 |
| Orienteering 1:26:04 [3]***** | |
| ahr:147 max:173 spiked:19/21c slept:9.0 shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Got to Hovden in the evening and ran from the hut to the training are and did 45 odd mins of slow terrain familiarisation. Physically felt grim, legs really stiff, chest tight, not good. Beautiful location though. |
Tuesday Jun 19 |
| Orienteering 49:01 [3]**** 3.9 km (12:34 / km) | |
| ahr:165 max:181 spiked:9/12c slept:6.5 shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Day of travelling then the Nydalen evening event in Oslo. 1:7500 scale screwed up my brain at the start, then I was just crap, not navigating confidently in the thick stuff and by the end was taking long path routes. Dawdling everywhere, really rubbish! Nice dip in a lake afterwards though. |
Monday Jun 18 |
| Orienteering 47:36 [3]**** 5.1 km (9:20 / km) | |
| ahr:162 max:179 spiked:10/12c slept:8.0 shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| After a surprisingly restful full night's sleep on the åarty boat went out onto Viksjö for some training and felt great! Running well, heart rate well down but speed up and was spiking most of the controls spot on, planning ahead well and simplifying well. Quite frustrating to feel good after all the races, but all the same really enjoyed the session! |
| Running 41:27 [3] | |
| ahr:154 max:175 shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Run out to Viksjö and back - feeling rather good which is all a bit random after yesterday's mission! |
Sunday Jun 17 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| Another day full of travelling! |
Saturday Jun 16 |
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| Event: Jukola 2007
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| Relay race 1:12:00 [4]***** 7.7 km (9:21 / km) | |
| ahr:176 max:195 spiked:17/21c slept:10.0 shoes: Shiny silver integrators |
| Venla last leg. Started off really well, spiking anf running hard, then had a patch of 4 or 5 controls in the scrappy bit in the middle that I just couldn't hit bang on no matter how hard I tried. Really frustrating. Improved again by the end and passed a big pack four from the end, but lost a lot of time faffing in the middle. Disappointing run, but good rescue by the end I guess. |