Training Archive: Neil KIn the 7 days ending 2008-06-29:
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Sunday Jun 29 | ||
| Running - Road intervals 12:00 [5] | |
| 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. | ||
| C • Island 3 | ||
| Running - Road warm up/down 35:00 [3] | |
Saturday Jun 28 | ||
| Note | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| Run around the National park. Sweet. | ||
| Note | |
| 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. | ||
| C • that 3 | ||
Tuesday Jun 24 | ||
| Orienteering race 49:00 [4] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 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. | ||