Training Archive: NixonIn the 7 days ending 2007-09-09:
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Saturday Sep 8 | ||
| Running tempo 27:55 [5]7.5 km (3:43 / km) +225m 3:14 / km | |
| ahr:183 max:192 | ||
| Tempo run around Paloheinä. I was going to run 2 laps steady at about 5 min/km's, but I don't actually know how fast that is, so it turned into a 1 lap quite hard run. Some joker has gone round and ripped up all the km signs as well, which made it a bitch for me to keep check of my pace, not that I was anywhere near the pace I was meant to be at. I noticed today how hard it can be to run downhill when you are tired. Nordic walking is back on the gay list too.
I was looking at the live results/radio from the Finnish champs long race today. Tiina, Heidi, Minna and Jukka made it through to tomorrow's final. Should be interesting, plus there is the end of season battle royale showdown mega death match between Minna Kauppi and Heli Jukkola. I'm now in trouble because I am writing this instead of helping make dinner. Ooops. | ||
| Jogging 20:00 [3] | |
| Warming up / down. Can't talk, must cook. | ||
Friday Sep 7 | ||
| Orienteering 31:42 [4]***** 4.4 km (7:12 / km) | |
| spiked:10/16c | ||
| Me and Matti headed out to the forbidden kingdom of Nuuksio for some secret stealth training. First off was the H40 Finnish Middle Champs Final from 2006. My plan: I'm not sure, I can't remember having one, which is probably why I was so shite. It started badly at 1, and didn't get much better. I spent a lot of the time not really knowing where I was, there were some interspersed moments of glory, but mostly I was generating learning.
1) 26:10 Jan Donner, OK 77 My time of 31:42 puts me in 32nd at the last control (where I stopped), but I reckon I could have plucked to 10s to Kalle Virtanen, maybe. It shows that it doesn't really matter how fast you are, if you can't navigate then you are screwed. | ||
| Orienteering 25:35 [4]***** 3.9 km (6:34 / km) | |
| ahr:165 max:179 spiked:10/11c | ||
| Second session, H35 Middle Qualification Heat 1. Having been quite shite on the first run, I was determined to be not shite on the second one. I swapped compasses, I used to like using a baseplate, but it was just annoying me earlier. The forest has grown up a bit since last year according to Matti, but there was still a massive track to the start point and by some of the controls. I got off to a well good start, orienteeringness was just flowing out of me, it was automatic. My aim was to go back to basics: attack points and plans. I only had a one small wobble in some green, apart from that it was awesome.
1) 24:09 Sören Nymalm, Pargas IF My time of 25:35 at the last control puts me in 12th, a bit better than this morning. And I could have chomped up the 9s to Mika Honkasalo on the spurt, nae bother. The first session I was thinking about racing the H40's time: this is not a good idea. The second session I was thinking about orienteering: this is a good idea. Still got nailed by gubbars though... | ||
| Jogging (Warming up / down) 20:00 [3] | |
| Warming up / down. We nearly didn't find the start for the first session. I then went for a warm up without the map and nearly got lost. Good times. | ||
Thursday Sep 6 | ||
| Running intervals 20:00 [5] | |
| Intervals on cinder track at Pirkkola, 8 x 400m. Spent a lot of time veering round stray girls playing under 16 soccer in the middle, badly. It's not that they had no skill, the had some but not very much, but they just had no sense of positioning or tactics or off the ball movement. For most of them the only acceptable move was to hoof the ball as soon as they got it, which doesn't work very well when you can't control where you hoof it.
My legs felt pretty stiff, like they didn't want to move fast. They did move fast, faster than last time I ran 400's, but there were most definitely stiff. Anti-flaccid as Embrey might say. | ||
| Orienteering 15:39 [4]*** 2.45 km (6:23 / km) | |
| spiked:9/13c | ||
| After the intervals I jogged for a bit and then did some Sprint orienteering on a 1:5000 map. The course had 3 sections. It started well, I couldn't find the first control. Not because I'm crap though, it was for a different reason: it just wasn't there. The mapper obviously thought it would be funny to put a stone on the map where clearly there isn't one. I doubt anyone has half-inched it. Helsingin vandals don't seem to steal road-works, let alone 2-tonne boulders. The mapper must have been either a) blind, b) drunk or c) Dave Peel*.
My focus was trying to stay ahead of myself. It didn't work on the first section, I was bad. It wen't OK on the middle section, I was OK. It went well on the last section, I was good. I did have to mince over the granite because it was raining and I aws only wearing fell shoes, I hope no one was watching. (*only joking, Peel maps are the best in the world) | ||
| Jogging (Warming up / down) 28:00 [3] | |
| Warming up / down.
It seems that Helsinki transport think no one is going to be going home from a massive sports center after 6 o'clock, so I had to take a different bus home. Thing was, I didn't know which bus to take home. I went to the next nearest stop and decided to take a bus to another bus to the city center. I then saw a bus that went straight to the city center drive past on the other side of the road. Balls. Anyway, I got on the next bus that came past and ended up in Arabia. Interesting. From there it was a simple case of taking the tram home. Which was very exciting as some dude was getting arrested at a tram stop down the line for being a very naughty boy. I resisted the temptation to get a kebab. | ||
Wednesday Sep 5 | ||
| Running intervals 43:00 [4] | |
| A bit of tennis in the morning with Matti, which was good. It was sunny and no one else was on the courts. We just hit the balls about for a bit and the Matti wanted to play a real game. I won 6-0. But Matti has degenerative disorder of the central nervous system, so nothing to boast about really. I think I prefer playing with his old-school wooden racket, it's awesome, plus I look like Björn Borg, almost.
Then went running round Kaivopuisto with Tiina, did a couple of loops round the park as intervals. Fastest was 4:04. I still felt tired from Austria. Then Matti, Ville and I went over to the island in Sipoo, looked at a big stone and discussed how we could move it. Then we played some basketball, had some beers and ate some Finnish sausage. Good times. | ||
Tuesday Sep 4 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| I slept for ages and had a mega lie-in. Then did nothing much for the rest of the day. I had some pytt-i-panna for lunch with an egg on top, only because it had an egg on top in the picture on the packet. It was nice. Actually, I had 2 eggs on top, but that's kind of irrelevant. I went to see Irina Palm (it's a film) in the evening. It was good. Films are the best way to learn foreign swearing I reckon, but the subtitle-man always changes them to something different. Damn you subtitle-man. | ||
Monday Sep 3 | ||
| Jogging 50:00 [4] | |
| A wee hill jog up the nice mountain out the back of the apartments. I was just going to have a rest day, but I decided to save that til Tuesday when I woulnd't have a nice mountain out the back of my apartment to go jogging up. Plus, it was sunny and I need to work on my tan, it's been fading with the dull weather in Helsinki recently. We jogged up to the top of the ski-lift at about 1650m, I think this is probably the highest I have ever been. Which is a bit lame really.
We then drove back (the correct way) to Munich airport, Neil had to get up at about 4am because of Jess and her Geography. I had 6 ham rolls for lunch. Munic airport is huge, and is also the Best Airport in Europe and the 3rd best in the world according to Skytrax. It has lots of disco lights, which are pretty cool, but not as cool as the Disco Jeep in Seefeld. | ||