Sunday May 4 |
 | Orienteering 31:00 [4]***** 5.8 km (5:21 / km) | |
| ahr:154 spiked:12/13c shoes: Innov8s |
| Pairs training with Scott, taking different routes etc... |
| Orienteering 23:00 [3]***** 3.5 km (6:34 / km) | |
| ahr:142 max:159 spiked:9/9c shoes: Innov8s |
| Last part of course individually. Trickiest, hilliest, lowest visibility terrain of the week, quite difficult. |
| Trail/terrain running warm up/down 12:03 [2] 2 km (6:02 / km) | |
| shoes: Innov8s |
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| Trail/terrain running 10:48 [2] 2 km (5:24 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics terrain shoes |
| Jogging between sections and back to car |
| Orienteering 17:27 [3]***** 3 km (5:49 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics terrain shoes |
| Three sections of line orienteering. |
| Orienteering 14:23 [3]***** 2.5 km (5:45 / km) | |
| spiked:5/5c shoes: Asics terrain shoes |
| Map memory exercise - hanging and collecting |
| Orienteering race 10:23 [4]***** 2 km (5:12 / km) | |
| spiked:6/6c shoes: Asics terrain shoes |
| Two short races with Jamie and Rachel |
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| 200 controls for the week! |
Saturday May 3 |
| Orienteering 1:05:14 [3]***** 11.2 km (5:49 / km) | |
| ahr:139 max:152 spiked:22/23c shoes: Asics terrain shoes |
| Longer training, quite slow. Generally pretty easy at lower speeds, maybe missed 15 seconds. Bushier stuff can be a bit trickier. |
| Orienteering race 18:28 [5]***** 4 km (4:37 / km) | |
| ahr:162 max:173 spiked:15/15c shoes: Innov8s |
| 'Short' race around a more urban 'forest park' on outskirts of Riga. Very fast, very bushy in places, but shapes pretty obvious and lots of paths. Scotia ran 18.38, Jamie missed a bit in the green. Felt pretty sluggish - slow to get started today. Scott took 15 seconds on me by 2nd control |
| Trail/terrain running warm up/down 33:43 [2] 5.5 km (6:08 / km) | |
| ahr:120 shoes: Innov8s |
| Jogging before trying to get legs working, collecting some controls after with Jamie |
Friday May 2 |
| Orienteering 42:18 [4]***** 8.2 km (5:10 / km) | |
| ahr:151 max:172 spiked:17/18c shoes: Asics terrain shoes |
| Slightly faster training in bigger dunes. Some vague flat areas, but also some 20-30m dunes and some marshy areas. Pushed the last km quite hard when I caught Scotia. |
| Trail/terrain running warm up/down 14:18 [2] 2.8 km (5:06 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics terrain shoes |
| Jogging before and after - back to cabins again |
| Trail/terrain running 21:30 [2] 3.5 km (6:09 / km) | |
| ahr:126 shoes: Innov8s |
| Jogging before, between sections, then collecting some controls after |
| Orienteering 5:30 [3]***** 1 km (5:30 / km) | |
| ahr:136 max:148 shoes: Innov8s |
| Line course |
| Orienteering race 10:42 [5]***** 2.4 km (4:27 / km) | |
| ahr:162 max:169 spiked:7/7c shoes: Innov8s |
| Gaffled head to head race with Scotia and Olav Lundanes. Both had shorted early on, so was chasing, caught Scott up but not Olav |
| Orienteering race 9:57 [5]***** 2.4 km (4:09 / km) | |
| ahr:169 max:180 spiked:10/10c shoes: Innov8s |
| Hunting start with Scotia, then Olav, then me, then Norberg and Jamie. Lightning fast terrain with great visibility. Caught Olav and Scott about 20-30 secs, got within a few seconds, then we had a gaffled last loop, and I couldn't quite get into the sprint finish. |
Thursday May 1 |
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| Travelling to Riga - early morning flight |
| Orienteering 59:25 [3]***** 9.3 km (6:23 / km) | |
| ahr:140 spiked:23/25c shoes: Innov8s |
| Easy training to ease into Latvian maps and training camp. Beautiful sand dunes, pretty fast but vague and bushy in places. Got a pine needle in my eye which pissed me off for 20 minutes or so.
Saw an elk in the marsh :) |
| Trail/terrain running warm up/down 13:30 [2] 2.5 km (5:24 / km) | |
| shoes: Innov8s |
| Some jogging before down to the beach, then running back to the cabins after training |
Wednesday Apr 30 |
| Orienteering 1:12:00 [3]***** 9.5 km (7:35 / km) | |
| ahr:143 max:159 spiked:20/22c shoes: Innov8s |
| Tech training Rydbo / Täljö. Caught the train out to the forest in beautiful sunshine. Quite tough running, lots of fallen trees, branches on the ground etc... Pretty nice training though. Will put the map on my website along with yesterdays maps. |
| Trail/terrain running 27:00 [3] 4.5 km (6:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Blue Saucony Triumphs |
| Little jog with Liis round my garden |
| Strength and conditioning 34:00 [1] | |
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Tuesday Apr 29 |
| Trail/terrain running 1:00:50 [3] 10 km (6:05 / km) | |
| ahr:124 max:147 shoes: Innov8s |
| Jogging to Sticklinge with Liis, then each hanging a few controls, then jogging back afterwards. Beautiful day! |
| Orienteering 14:45 [4]***** 3 km (4:55 / km) | |
| ahr:151 max:164 spiked:29/29c shoes: Innov8s |
| Sprint training on brand new 1:2000 map of Sticklinge. It's a bit strange doing a training when you a) made the map, b) planned the course, c) put out a third of the controls.
Still was really fun trying to do high speed orienteering on a 1:2000 map, everything comes up so fast and it is hard to plan ahead. Would have been criminal to miss any of the controls, but twice I took a couple of stupid route choices. |
| Orienteering race 17:45 [5]***** 3.5 km (5:04 / km) | |
| ahr:172 max:181 spiked:21/22c shoes: Innov8s |
| Club sprint champs. I won, but I had the slight advantage that I made the map..... Was a really nice course though, but slightly on the long side. Really tricky for a sprint race as well - technically very detailed hill top with many features and lots of wiggles. |
| Trail/terrain running 34:30 [3] 5 km (6:54 / km) | |
| shoes: Blue Saucony Triumphs |
| Jogging to sprint race, then some warm up and strides, bit of jogging and taking some pictures after. |
Monday Apr 28 |
| Trail/terrain running 1:00:00 [3] 13 km (4:37 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics terrain shoes |
| Run with Martin from Boson round 10km trail then a bit extra |