Training Log Archive: Miikka

Event: Suunnistuksen SM-sprint
 

The Finnish Championship Sprint B final. This one was slightly different than in the morning. Now we started with "normal" O in a forest and then some urban sector at the end. I started very carefully not to make any mistakes. Then at the streets some more speed. At the control #8 I lost some ten seconds trying figure out greens and then a small mistake at the #10, when I should have started to climb earlier and not so direct. But those were very minors and my splits shows that all I lost was by running speed. I'm happy with my two sprints today.

The Finnish Championship Sprint Qualification. I made quite nice run. I was thinking I made one serious mistake, but when seeing splits, that was actually not so bad. I lost some time in the forest hill at the end, mostly when I was too careful. Still I was happy with this one. I was 44th out of 56 started, which is really good for my level.

The county championships in the middle distance in Miehikkälä. I started well, but then I was looking the control #5 on a wrong hill for more than five minutes with a couple of other guys. After that I made twice the same error: at the #6 I was heading towards the #8 and lost several minutes there and at the #8 I was thinking I'm at the #9 and going to the #10, luckily I hit a road almost immediately and lost no more than 30 seconds there. Not any good run and I didn't like the terraine nor the map too much. Too runnable and not technical enough for me.

The first time playing base for 16 years. Well, not exactly playing, but hitting and catching. Well, at least I hit the ball after all these years.

A local meet in Keihässalmi. I remembered this area is superslow, but it was much better than I expected. Of course there were some forestry work, but with good course setting these were nicely avoided. Two small mistakes, two and one minute, otherwise a nice run.