Sunday Jun 24 |
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| (rest day) |
| Spent all day travelling, and 6 hours of that driving. Had a bit of a dry throat this morning and have shared a room with Neil for the past 4 nights, so a rest seems sensible. |
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| C • if you were ron hill you'd hav... 5 |
Saturday Jun 23 |
| Orienteering race 1:32:55 [3]14.4 km (6:27 / km) | |
| shoes: New silver o shoes |
| O-fest WRE. Got onto H21E1 (just - which meant I had another early start and empty forest) and had a whole 14.4km to look forward to. I decided not to race this, but to treat it as a technical training session.
It went really well, I only made one miss of more than 30 seconds and felt in control all of the time. Thierry ran an awesome time, and again it was great to race against the worlds top runners. |
| Running 25:00 [3]5 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: New silver o shoes |
| Run from chalet to start, and then from finish back to chalet. |
Friday Jun 22 |
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| Event: Orienteering World Cup event 2
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| Orienteering race (World Cup) 48:04 [4]5.9 km (8:09 / km) +220m 6:52 / km | |
| shoes: New silver o shoes |
| First international race, first race in Norway and I got the honour (!) of first start. After struggling a bit at the model event, and coupled with first start, I decided that I was going to be extra cautious. Went off steady and hit the first 5 controls well, including the tough long leg, but was being very careful. Missed 6 and then 10, and got caught by my 2 minute man. I led through the rest of the controls with a couple of little wobbles.
It was an OK run, but perhaps I was too cautious. I still really enjoyed it, the experience, the atmosphere, not seeing the finish before the race, the pre-start, everything. It's a BIG step up doing this kind of race, and you realise how good the top guys really are. |
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| C • Jealous 4 |
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [3]5 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: New silver o shoes |
| Warming up and warming down. |
Thursday Jun 21 |
| Orienteering 47:00 [3]5 km (9:24 / km) | |
| shoes: New silver o shoes |
| Model event. I found this technically tough. My rough navigation was good, but I wasn't thinking enough about the control circles. The led to me losing time flag hunting. Need to not be doing that on Friday. |
| Orienteering 30:00 [3]3 km (10:00 / km) | |
| shoes: New silver o shoes |
| Went out on the training map around Hovden to do some extra work on control circle visualisation. Much improved on this morning and feeling happier about the race. |
Wednesday Jun 20 |
| Running 20:00 [3]4 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Road shoes |
| Had to run to the garage to pick car up. The leak is now fixed, the windscreen wipers now work and my front tyres are no longer just over the legal tread limit. |
| Running 23:00 [3]4 km (5:45 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics trail shoes |
| Short evening jog with Neil in Hovden to stretch our legs after a lot of travelling. These races are going to be fun... |
Tuesday Jun 19 |
| Running intervals 20:00 [5]3.2 km (6:15 / km) | |
| shoes: Lightweight trainers |
| Track. 4 * 300m, 4 * 250m and 4 * 250m, 3 mins between sets, 45 secs / 30 secs / 20 secs between reps. There should have been a fourth set of 4 * 300m but not doing too much tonight. I got a set further than Craney. Legs felt like they were turning over quite nicely. |
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| C • Good luck in Norvay 3 |
| Running 25:00 [3]5 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Road shoes |
| To track from work, a few laps warm up and warm down. Got a lift home with Dave tonight. |
Monday Jun 18 |
| Running race 26:08 [5]6.25 km (4:11 / km) +200m 3:36 / km | |
| shoes: Innov8s |
| Trunce 5. Conditions pretty poor after all the recent rain which slowed the course down. That was the main reason I didnt't get a pb, the other reason being that I was a complete spanner and ran the wrong way. Just switched off for a second and followed the guys in front. Even if I'd not done that I would have struggled to pb. Little Rob was 90 secs slower than 2 weeks ago. |
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [3]3 km (5:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Innov8s |
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