Training Log Archive: Tundra/Desert

Event: World Cup 3-5
 

Moscow Meridian stage 16. 11th/115, and that with a 5:33/km pace (AHR = 166). The winner did a 4:41 pace (Ryabkin is an animal).

1 - Splits

In Izmailovskiy Park.

Event: WOC Training Camp
 

In today's Sport Express (Russia's daily sports paper), page 8 (out of 8), lower right-hand corner (first 7 pages were World Cup soccer and the 8th page heading said "NBA: New Jersey Nets and Lakers to Meet in 2002 Final"):
"Orienteering: Arlon. Valentin Novikov from Kursk won the silver in the A group at the first stage of the World Cup which started in Belgium. Igor Klimov from Moscow and Julia Syedina from Perm each won the B group. The 2001 park orienteering vice-champion, Mikhail Mamleev, had to do with 11th in the second division. There are 17 individual and team stages in the Cup. Between June and October, events will be held on orienteering courses in Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Hungary, and Czech Republic. 99 men and 75 women from 26 countries compete in the two divisions."
Not that bad, except they couldn't even get the hero's hometown right.

Moscow Meridian stage 15. 5th/105; the elephant trails make a huge difference at the end of the evening. AHR = 167.

1 - Splits

ST = 378 (R = 26).

Another feeble attempt at intervals at Avangard, with some Luchiks. We did various subsets of the planned crazy 3K+2K+1K+3K+2K+1K; I endured the first half: 11'08 7'29 3'34 (400 m rest). SY did almost all of it, at 3:35 – 3:20 pace. They are running Leiden marathon this Sun (mostly the half-thing, though).

2 cooldown laps, and a lap at 93".

Home.

Felt well enough that I decided to go O.

Moscow Champs relay. In a pick-up team. Decided to do some anchor-leg training and got unexpectedly much more than I bargained for. Grrr. The first leg dude was through the spectator control first and 4th at the finish/0:15 back. The second leg kid was 5th/1:30 and 7th/4:20. I was 5th/2:00 and 6th/6:30 (yes, a major screw-up on the last loop). But it turned out that the second leg person mispunched, as did about 30% of the field. Don't they teach arabic numerals in kindergarten?
The course (6.39 km) was flat, with almost no trail running; all through the bland, open woods with little visibility or mapped features. My (3rd relay leg time) was 8th, although there was more than 100 m difference between farsta combinations. Felt just fine during the run, some minor pains in the evening. AHR = 173.

B - Splits

Felt better in the morning. The "gastritis" must have been a stomach bug (started on Wed) on top of something else. Obviously skipped the Moscow Championships Short (which was about 5 miles from mom's place). Skipped the doctor's appointment, too, as the pain went away.

Spent the day watching World Cup soccer. The Moscow Champs were a dud as in the final, 0, 1, or 2 controls (depending on when one started) were in a wrong place (but not missing), moved by someone and moved back by the course staff. They didn't throw out the results.