Monday Jun 30 |
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| http://www.hungariacup2008.hu |
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| C • lol! 11 |
| Running - Off road 50:00 [3] | |
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| Around the buetiful lake here at Tata. Struggling big time. Feet and things sore from lugging around the big back pack. This place is so sweet. Gonna be a great summer holiday week. Racing in the mornings, buet weather and lake in the afternoon, cheap beer, "Disco everynight from 11 to 1.3O", and there is even wimbeldon and porn on the tv! |
Sunday Jun 29 |
| Running - Road intervals 12:00 [5] | |
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| Found a sweet athletics track lane around an Island park in the center of budapest 5km long. Did 500 on, 500 off, 850 on, 1km on, 500,500. Feeling sweet as considering I was completly knackered after a hard core day touristing and it was 32 degrees which normally ruins me.
Walked around town, went the the circus, the park , the musuem, and the island. Budapest. |
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| C • Island 3 |
| Running - Road warm up/down 35:00 [3] | |
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Saturday Jun 28 |
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| Caught up with the aussies then traveled to budapest today. I like it here. |
Friday Jun 27 |
| Orienteering race 17:00 [5] | |
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http://repreob.hyperlink.cz/index.php?oubor=./repr...
Ha ha.
Bloody good fun through the main pedistrian streets of Random Czech City One. |
| Orienteering race 56:00 [4] | |
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| The results might not show it but I'm pretty happy with the progress made today. The run was littered with stupid errors but the important thing was that I was back in race mode and dealing with the terrain...when I was concentrating properly on looking around etc. When I was just concentrating on running away from the old british coach then I got to practise my relocation. The other brits came flying past at one point too, and I latch on to them for a while only to get all excited when they missed the control and I got it and took off. Unfortunatly I stuffed the next one trying to sneak away. Was great to see everyone including good fins, brits, russians and hungarians making tons of errors. They confirmed it wasn't just me with a shock to how physical the undergrowth is and how hhit and miss the low vis controls are if you aren't careful. Sweet that all just means WOC won't be a running benefit and there is a good chance of qualifying if you have a good run. |
Thursday Jun 26 |
| Orienteering race 2:05:00 [4] | |
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| First two hoürs of the swedish Long trials. Was a bit flustered at the start when I arrived late and had to go straight away and then I didnt find the start triangle before entering the forest. Anyway started to get the grips of the terrain, feeling ok considering but starting to get tired at the end so wasn§t learning much, still had thirty plus minutes to go so made like a brit and headed home, ready to smash tommorrow. Emil did 1, 47 but there were plenty of swedes over two hours. Smashed my right knee on a rock.
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Wednesday Jun 25 |
| Orienteering 25:00 [3] | |
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| Run around the National park. Sweet. |
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| What the hell just happened to my 3 page essay about yesterday. damned if I'm writing that again so here are some key words.
Tourist day, drive long, vilage after village, mountains, chairlift, Germany, bobsliegh, run, http://www.czecot.com/en/results/turobjekty-info.p... , awesomist, rain, drive back, mission, flood, debre, trees, road, trees on road, firebrigade, crash, no, almost, ok so a little, just the wing mirror, 200km 4.5 hours!
Just been looking at the photos of the rocks and I reckon they are the lamest ones they could choose. This place is soo soo much better than that. If your ever around here you have to take a look. |
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| C • that 3 |
Tuesday Jun 24 |
| Orienteering race 49:00 [4] | |
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| http://www.woc2008.cz/en/homepage/news/#For_teams
special link to appear soon....apparently
News Flash, turns out the results are on the czech national team website. I§ll let you know where that is when I find it. but for now here are some maps provided by Matts Troeng of sweden. http://www.matstroeng.se/maps/index.php
Unbeliebable I know. but I didn§t win the first race of the swedish trials. I didn§t even come close. It may have something to do with not really understanding the vegetation mapping, it may have something to do with being close to the controls but not finding until Id had a good walk around.
It also maybe to do with just not trusting the map with regards to the obvious stumps in front of me losing about five min on a short leg. it might also be cos it was pretty tough running and those damn swedishes were probably very much at home bounding over the blueberries. Anyway I quite enjoyed it, felt ok and dont think it would be hard to get good in this terrain..it isnt difficult
Final this afternoon. Also some friends arrived today so i have someone to talk to. Patrick Karlson who I met in Luthuania JWOC and Matius Mullienger who come to NZ in 2005. Mattius won which is good. |
| Orienteering race 1:00:00 [4] | |
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| Final.
This was longer and greener than this morning. Screwed no one again. No confidence. Anyway was getting it on allright racing this russian and then the bloody organisers took the last three controls and finish away. Really pissed me off. |
Monday Jun 23 |
| Orienteering 35:00 [1] | |
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| Map walk around model. Not a great mapping effort for Czech I hope. Still very confused by the vegetation and the rocks can be big or they can be unnoticeable under moss. Still quite nice running. |
| Running - Off road 30:00 [3] | |
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| Did a bit of a track run after the map walk, just to do some decent running without straining through the forest and getting lost. Did about ten accellerations and felt awesome.
Cant wait to kick some swedishes arse tommorrow. |
Sunday Jun 22 |
| Orienteering race 45:00 [4] | |
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| cheque middle distance champs. enter on the dae. hot 33c and late for stärt, so real stuffed during the race. was fun though. terrain is nice but little trees like poking i s out. this kezboard is funnz.
http://mcr2008.oksparta.cz/index.php |
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| C • are 3 |
| Running - Road warm up/down 25:00 [3] | |
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| Late to start.
Major goal of the trip is half completed. Have a half tan. The half that I didn§t put suntan lotion on. Somebody better let europe know they have an ozone layer hole aswell. |
Saturday Jun 21 |
| Orienteering race 18:00 [5] | |
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| cheque sprint champs h21c1
http://dkp.orienteering.cz/zavody/bohnice_08/
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| C • write me a czech please 4 |
| Running - Road 35:00 [3] | |
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| Got there real early so went for a jog to clear out all the deep vains and thrombosises. Felt a bit rough but thats what your gonna get isn't it.
Then I had to sprint for the start as I discovered at the last minute that I had a completely different start that was about 2.5 km down the road. |
Thursday Jun 19 |
| Running - Off road 40:00 [4] | |
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| Pre flight blast around and over one tree hill. Wasnt' feeling great, legs got a few nigglis (Not simone Niggli's either),
Now the flight nightmare has begun. I'm off to Prague today. |
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| C • what's cesky for bon voyage? 1 |
Wednesday Jun 18 |
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| Lazy day today. Cold and sleepy. Now I remember how important sleep is for a training athlete. |
Tuesday Jun 17 |
| Running - Off road 12:00 [5] | |
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| Intervals with Jack before he flew out. 1,2,3,3,2,1. with one minute off. |
| Running - Off road warm up/down 25:00 [2] | |
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Sunday Jun 15 |
| Running - Off road race 1:50:00 [4] | |
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| Total sport Race. Hunua. Basically brents 1 hour fifty loop plus extras. What do you know? took me an hour fifty exactly. Micheal Adams 1.40 and Adam and Nick Hersfield and James Kuegler in front.
Was feeling a bit tired on the hills from this week but real happy with running form at the end, and didn't feel too bad afterwards.
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| C • Brents hour fifty 2 |
Saturday Jun 14 |
| Orienteering 20:00 [5] | |
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| A bit of a middle course in Pot luck low vis. Felt good but struggling to read the map on the run. |
| Running - Off road warm up/down 20:00 [2] | |
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Friday Jun 13 |
| Running - Off road 40:00 [2] | |
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| Cruise around with Jack. Was feeling knackered after chainsawing all day. sore right glute, and archilles. but Jack got me out the door and started to feel better when got going. |
Thursday Jun 12 |
| Running - Off road 10:00 [5] | |
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| terrain intervals with Tom jack and a map of Czech. good session, 3 sets, 5x 30:30, 1:30, 30:30 with 5 mins between. . did it on pot luck in the thinned bit through all the branches and shit on the ground. Was impressed with the boys. Its a real shame Greg and I haven't had more time with the JWOC team discussing Swedish maps though. There gonna get a surprise. Pleasantly tired at the end. Refreshing to do the session during the day. |
| Running - Off road warm up/down 50:00 [1] | |
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| up down and all around. |
Wednesday Jun 11 |
| Running - Off road tempo 40:00 [4] | |
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| Good solid run. was tired from yesterday but still able to do the sesion easily. Excellent. starting to feel like an athlete again rather than a guy who jogs for heart health. Pretty sure i'm gonna kick James' arse this sunday.
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| C • Sunday 4 |
| Running - Off road 10:00 [3] | |
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| warm up and down. Night fever. Also moved the cows. |
Tuesday Jun 10 |
| Running - Off road intervals 20:00 [5] | |
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| Four times 5 min at the domain, Solid. |
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| C • go 1 |
| Running - Off road warm up/down 25:00 [1] | |
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| Up/down and 3min in between. |
Monday Jun 9 |
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| (rest day) |
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Sunday Jun 8 |
| Running - Off road 1:00:00 [4] | |
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| Solid run with some a few small hills. Very pleased. Ankle not bad. |
Saturday Jun 7 |
| Running - Off road 1:40:00 [3] | |
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| Good run, hills around home. Special thanks to Leppin Squeezy. Twisted right ankle. |
Friday Jun 6 |
| Running - Road 40:00 [3] | |
| weight:76.6kg |
| It's not meant to be that hard to keep going during a recovery run is it? |
Thursday Jun 5 |
| Running - Off road intervals 12:00 [5] | |
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| 8 times 90 sec gradual up hill. 2 min recovery. Turkey crossing up to the curl in the curly road paddock road. Supposed to be focussing on form and leg lift. Legs were concrete still from the weekend so had to draw on all forms of willpower to get this session done. |
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| C • Stuff 1 |
| Running - Off road warm up/down 30:00 [2] | |
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| Up down and all around. Night time, so cut a few corners. |
Wednesday Jun 4 |
| Mountain Biking 1:25:00 [2] | |
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| Night ride with four others.
A bit of fartlek really. We were out for two hours and the computer only registered an hour and half so must of been a bit of stuffing around.
Feeling alright. |
Tuesday Jun 3 |
| Running - Road 25:00 [3] | |
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| Just to see if I can run. I can.
No real sore muscles (like the hammy or solous like last week), Just hips and a thighs are a little beat up from trying to protect the hips.
Track building again today which agrevates the hips aswell. |
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| C • WOC 4 |
Monday Jun 2 |
| Orienteering race 1:16:00 [5] | |
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| QB day 3, Bombing range. Carsten 73. thom 76 me, Aaron Darren (Those that weren't hungover seemed to feature a lot higher today although aaron still did alright).
Surprisingly running/feeling a hell of a lot better than yesterday. Even seemed to finish as strong as I started. Obviously still pretty crap but gives me some hope again.
Navigation pretty damn sloppy. Lots of time lost but was fun trying to hold Carsten off. He caught me three to go and I tried to hang on to finish...what a change of pace...
Think I need more time running through terrain reading a map. Reading the map clearly whilst running hard is probably the skill I miss most when out of practise. That leads to sloppy orientering as I try to run hard into the cirlce without reading any detail or having a plan.
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| C • Sloppy Orienteering 2 |
Sunday Jun 1 |
| Orienteering 1:34:00 [4] | |
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| QB Day 2, Osgiliath.
Huge error at no.8 screwed it up from 3 different directions. Low vis, poor compass work. Then all of a sudden I felt how tired I was and really really struggled phyiscally from then on, with the sloppy orienteering that results from going too slow...not to fast. Not really much fun but the kind of harden up training I need at the moment. Thankfully the course was invalidated and the splits didn't work so I can't be embarressed too much. Carsten in the low 70's. |