Sunday Jun 22 |
 | Note | |
| (rest day) |
| Not a chance in hell I was running today. |
Saturday Jun 21 |
| Orienteering race (O-fest Long) 2:13:00 [3] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
| Longest, toughest, hardest course I've done in a long time. It was just one of them that I'm glad I did and I'm glad I finished it. Never really felt like I was racing cos of the toughness of the terrain and hit the wall after about 80mins. Usually there isn't too much further in a classic, but this one had an extra 53mins in store for me, so I hit a few more walls. Seconds and minutes went out of the window, as did route choice (the route with the most on paths being the optimum for my jelly legs), it was all about getting to the finish. Actually navigated quite cleanly and got one over most of the people that started around me. Hung in there, and as more and more people cracked and gave up, managed to move up to 11th overall. Course was nothing like the World Cup, situation totally different, and not bothered by the time anyway. It was great just being able to enjoy such a long, tough course in fantastic terrain without having to worry about much else. |
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| C • Wow, tough course 1 |
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
| 15 warm-up. 0 warm-down. Bite me. |
Friday Jun 20 |
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| Event: Norsk O Festivalen
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| Orienteering race (O-fest Middle) 36:30 [4] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
| Ah yeah, quality orienteering. Has been a while since I've o-ed in Scandi-land. Not easy rocking up to Norway late one night, leaving your wallet on a bus, spending the morning retrieving your wallet, spending the afternoon spectating on a World Cup race, then finally racing in tough Norwegian terrain in the evening. But I orienteered pretty well in the main - one costly mistake of 1-2mins, but only hesitations otherwise. Bit of practice in this stuff would have saved me some time, but I think the key factor is running technique in this kind of terrain. Started in a Hakan Eriksson, Johan Ivarsson sandwich which was exciting. Would've been nice to catch Hakan and see what he does. |
| Running warm up/down 40:00 [2] | |
| shoes: jalas o-shoes |
| 20 up and 20 down. |
Thursday Jun 19 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
| Travelling to Norway to cheer on GG :o) |
Wednesday Jun 18 |
| Running 59:00 [4] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| Train was 50mins late so I filled in the waiting time at Leeds station by having a couple of pints. Wasn't gonna let that stop me running though. In fact, it made me run faster cos I couldn't judge my starting pace as well and once I've started at a pace I don't like letting up. Went up Rivelin and Coppice track. |
Tuesday Jun 17 |
| Note | |
| (rest day) |
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Monday Jun 16 |
| Running intervals 30:00 [4] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| Took off the athlete shoes and donned the coach shoes and whip and took Gracie on some 90x30 Foxdal intervals round Rivelin. I think I was extremely motivational. It was far from being an easy session for me but I felt fairly good after my week off and it was a lovely evening. |
| Running 30:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Vomero +2 |
| Before and after. |