Saturday Aug 4 |
 | Orienteering 1:14:00 [4] *** 8.6 km (8:36 / km) +245m 7:32 / km | |
| spiked:7/9c slept:5.0 shoes: 06 VJ Twister |
| "Mountain orienteering" training in Sälen - the map is on Eva Jurenikova's great webpage, at:
http://www.evajurenikova.com/maps/07_tr_salen_long...
However, my course was slightly shorter (I did it in this order: 1, 8, 7, 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13). I took the risky straight-on routes to both 9 and 10, and both times missed slightly, with some consequence. On 9 I missed low but managed to find the marsh just past the control to relocate. On 10 I drifted too low and ended up bailing out up to the top of the hill to attack along the trail - ouch. In a busy competition I MIGHT risk those (since there would presumably be traffic into and out of the controls, improving the chances of hitting them with little or no loss), but without some sort of help it's definitely safer to go over the hilltops, rather than contour around a bland hillside....
Nice day out there, managed to avoid stopping to pick blueberries (which are everywhere up there). |
| Orienteering warm up/down 10:00 [3] | |
| shoes: 06 VJ Twister |
| For the above. |
Friday Aug 3 |
| Orienteering 1:35:00 [3] *** | |
| spiked:12/15c slept:6.0 |
| "Hill side orienteering" training (S of Högfjället) - you can see the map on Eva Jurenikova's web page:
http://www.evajurenikova.com/maps/07_tr_salen_hill...
Some trouble with #5 (passed within 10m and missed it), #7 (started looking a little early) and #13 (just a little too low).
Heavy leg lifting compared to what I've been doing lately. A goodish amount of climb too. |
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| C • Good Luck 4 |
Thursday Aug 2 |
| Orienteering 1:11:00 [3] **** | |
| spiked:18/21c slept:7.0 shoes: 06 VJ Twister |
| Orienteering training session in Sälen - site of O-Ringen 2008 and associated World Cup races. Raining, about 11C, windy. Visibility less than 150m at the summit, made for some difficult controls (would have been waaaaaay easier with good visibility). Thinking the Norwegians will definitely feel at home here for O-Ringen 2008. Lots of heavy lifting in soft ground and blueberries, and those marshes running down the hillsides. Quite tricky to relocate on a bland hillside if you miss the controls, too. Should be interesting.
The infrastructure here is amazing, and the prices are dirt cheap (since it's mainly a ski resort). We're paying about $80 CAD a night for a brand new 2-bedroom mountain apartment, complete with 2 bedrooms, sleeping for 5-6 people, sauna, laundry machine, dishwasher (full kitchen facilities), flat screen TV with cable, and wireless internet. Got me to thinking, it would be a great spot for a team training camp next spring, maybe just before or after the Tio-mila? Prices are even cheaper then - looks like we could get a 10-bed place for as little as $70 CAD a night. And of course, lots of orienteering maps plus possibilities for long runs in the mountains, as well as mountain biking. If people were interested, I'd happily be involved.... |
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| C • Spring training... 4 |
Wednesday Aug 1 |
| Note | |
| slept:8.0 (rest day) |
| Travel from Gunilla's place in Uppsala up to Sälen. Just couldn't bring myself to get out there - after two full days of being cooped up in airports and airplanes courtesy of Star Alliance (and missing one piece of luggage, which unfortunately contains the bulk of my orienteering gear, among other things), I figured a true rest day was in order. |
Sunday Jul 29 |
| Orienteering race 2:00:00 [4] | |
| slept:7.0 shoes: 07 VJ Twister |
| Canadian Champs Long - comments later |
| Orienteering warm up/down 25:00 [2] | |
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| For the above. |
