Training Log Archive: simon

Ongoing champ'
Lots of work (including repairing the hacked website), but no big problem for the time being.

Event: French Orienteering Championships
 

Finally finished my compte-rendu of those 6 days, including the full traces on matrace. It is amazing to compare my trace from memory with the trace recorded by the GPS, especially on such a hard terrain where it is difficult to follow and remember all the micro-choices (including the little mistakes like 'I thought I ran there but apparently no'), including the very dumb one you didn't notive during the race. It also reveals that my weakest point (compass) is stronger than ever and accounts for most of my mistakes of the week. Actually I feel quite shameful when I see some of my zigzaging but nobody had a perfect race there (and if more people had ran with a GPS, they would have their content of surprise too).

As a final note: a selection of pictures from the week and full album with raw pictures.

Two days after the Aveyron, my legs felt nice as the day was, so I resolve to try my infamous Gesvres loop and beat a new PR.

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view.do...

Well once again I got a hard lesson from the single tracks around the Gesvres, with its unceasing change in climg/descent/pace. I tried to push hard on the easy parts and as a result got a stitch after only 15 minutes of running. I could not make it go away so after 20 minutes I slowed down and started walking for 2 minutes, then running again at an easy pace. I could accelerate again after a while, but this time I focused on keeping a good pace, in the flow, instead of pushing myself.

So the Gesvres lesson is always the same: dont try to run hard, just let it happen.