Sunday Feb 18 |
 | Orienteering race 1:10:00 [5]***** 12 km (5:50 / km) +410m 4:59 / km | |
| spiked:28/30c |
| POM Day 2 and WRE. Got my head together today and ran with much better control. Less fine detail on the map but still very challenging to find the flag in a rocky lunar landscape - almost everything was rock and only some of it was shown with black or gray features. Control descriptions are very important here! A couple of small mistakes and feeling good. |
| Running 25:00 [2]4 km (6:15 / km) | |
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| Warm up and warm down for the race. |
| Orienteering 30:00 [3]*** 5 km (6:00 / km) | |
| spiked:15/16c |
| Night sprint around Sao Pedro. Took it as a light training after the hard long race earlier in the day. There were problems with the start, so after a 45 min delay the organisers decided to let everyone go in a mass start with no timing - there were people everywhere around this small mountain town. This kind of thing must be strange for the locals... |
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| Mike, you owe me a Euro - I'm afraid Thierry did beat you on leg 29, by a whole second. |
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| C • Damn it 1 |
Saturday Feb 17 |
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| Event: Portugal O-Meet
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| Orienteering race 35:00 [5]***** 6 km (5:50 / km) | |
| spiked:20/25c |
| POM day 1, very technical middle distance in alternating fog and rain. Fast running to link up pockets of rocky detail, which I didn't succeed in reading properly. The map was great, but very detailed and hard to read at full speed, so a few smallish mistakes and a poor run overall. |
| Running 30:00 [2]5 km (6:00 / km) | |
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| Warm up and warm down for the race. |
Friday Feb 16 |
| Orienteering 40:00 [3]***** 6 km (6:40 / km) | |
| spiked:20/20c |
| Model map for the Portugal O Meet. Weather wasn't particularly nice down in Sao Pedro (15 degrees and cloudy), but we were on a warm weather camp so it seemed appropriate to wear shorts. We drove up the hill to this map and sat in the car for 30 mins waiting for the lightning storm, gale force winds and driving rain to abate. Gave up and headed out into the elements in full goretex, but 5 mins into the training the weather lifted and we saw the extent of this strange rocky landscape inbetween banks of thick fog. Very challenging terrain! |
Thursday Feb 15 |
| Orienteering 35:00 [2]***** 5 km (7:00 / km) | |
| spiked:24/25c |
| Training on a sand dune map near Obidos on the way from Lisbon to Sao Pedro. Took it very easy, feeling tired and delicate after a 4.30am start this morning. Nice terrain though! |
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| Woke up at 4.00am to leave with a very sore gum around my wisdom tooth - I get this a lot, but it's usually a sign I'm getting run down. I'll take it very easy until Saturday's race... |
Wednesday Feb 14 |
| Weights 40:00 [3] | |
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| Free weights and circuits in the gym. Legs feeling OK after track. Slight increase in reps this time. |
| Running 35:00 [1]6 km (5:50 / km) | |
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| Easy run into the gym and back home. |
Tuesday Feb 13 |
| Track session 30:00 [5]7 km (4:17 / km) | |
| max:191 |
| Hallamshire intervals descending distances, 1650, 1600, 1550, 1500. Ran 5.16, 5.04, 5.00, 4.49, plus some strides and drills to warm up. Although not too sure about them...my splits are a bit of a mess. Good session anyway and feeling better at the end of it than I have all day. |
| Running 55:00 [2]10 km (5:30 / km) | |
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| Run to track and back with Mike and Rob. I was pretty grumpy on the way, really didn't feel like leaving the house today. |
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| C • grumpy 6 |
Monday Feb 12 |
| Running 40:00 [2]7 km (5:43 / km) | |
| (rest day) |
| Easy jog in the sunshine, now it's chucking it down. Felt weary, must have run harder than I thought yesterday. |