Training Archive: szurcherIn the 7 days ending 2007-06-17:
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Saturday Jun 16 | ||
| Event: Jukola 2007 | ||
| running 20:21 [3]3.5 km (5:49 / km) +27m 5:36 / km | |
| ahr:137 max:145 | ||
| Morning jog with Fransika Wolleb. | ||
| strength 7:00 [1] | |
| Core strength, i should keep this up, even if I am away from home. | ||
| running warm up/down 39:00 [2]7 km (5:34 / km) | |
| ahr:138 shoes: VJ Twisters | ||
| Warm up and cooling down for the Venla start. | ||
| Orienteering race 47:41 [5]***** 5.9 km (8:05 / km) +136m 7:15 / km | |
| ahr:180 max:195 spiked:14/16c | ||
| Venla Relay, Mass start.
Holy cow there are a lot of women in this relay. Pretty darn intimidating& but I managed it well. My goal was to spike the first control, which I did and then stay concentrated on my race, but use the people to my advantage. I managed to do that as well too, but couldnt run as fast as I would have liked to. One reason was because of all the women, you are basically in a line of women the whole time and you either have to get around them or go their tempo. I was trying to get around, but a lot of faster women were passing me as well. I basically spend the whole race fighting for a place to put my feet. That brings me to the second reason I felt like I couldnt run that fast. It was really rocky, and with all the women around I was honestly worried about my ankles. I was not specifically worried about the ankle I injured (which is good), but just worried about hurting myself in general. I smacked my knee on a log and have a very blue/green bump now, and I also took one face dive, but other than that I survived. During the race I felt like I was doing really badly, the reason being that there were all sorts of women around me, some fast, but also some that didnt seem too speedy, or they were pretty old or very young. What an experience. I wanted to come in the top 100 women, but just missed that with a place of 102nd, 614 behind the leader. Some pretty good women were not that far ahead of me, and I beat some too. I think it was a decent performance, but I lost some time on one control (2 minutes by going to the wrong forking) and think I could be closer to the leaders in more runnable terrain. Next time I would rather run the 2nd or 3rd (4th if I get good enough) leg though. | ||
Friday Jun 15 | ||
| Orienteering 35:00 [1]3.3 km (10:36 / km) +48m 9:53 / km | |
| ahr:132 max:165 shoes: VJ Twisters | ||
| Training on the map, Virpimäki with the Swiss team to prepare for Jukola. I had very tired legs from yesterday. | ||
Thursday Jun 14 | ||
| Event: Orienteering World Cup Event 1 | ||
| running warm up/down 45:00 [3]7 km (6:26 / km) | |
| ahr:135 shoes: VJ Integrators (red/black)#2 | ||
| Warm up and cool down for the WC Sprint quali race. | ||
| Orienteering race 13:08 [5]**** 2.4 km (5:28 / km) +57m 4:53 / km | |
| ahr:187 max:195 spiked:16/17c shoes: VJ Integrators (red/black)#2 | ||
| Sprint Qualification race
General: I was pretty nervous going in, feeling like I havent been able to prepare myself like I would have wanted to since my injury. I set my goals to be 100% subjectively based, wanting to be calm, and concentrated. I achieved this, no doubt about it. Physically, I started strong and could push hard, but started to loose speed in the second half. I certainly noticed the lack of speed work in the last two month. I will work on this. Technically, I lost about 15 on one control (11) because I misinterpreted the descending driveway as the wall and went around that first, instead of the wall. This was also about at the point where I was starting to get tired. My result was ok (19th, 17 make it in the A final), I wish it would have been fast enough for the A final, but I was actually pretty far off (30 seconds). I lost 211 to Simone, which must be a new personal best. Overall I am happy with my race from a personal perspective, but wish I could have given you guys something to talk about in the A final. I wrote an email to tell them that they had left me out of the results, they fixed it, so here are the results: http://simeoni.jukola2007.net/tulokset/en/2007_wcu... | ||
| running warm up/down 40:00 [2]6 km (6:40 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrators (red/black)#2 | ||
| Warm up and cooling down for the sprint final in the rain:-( | ||
| Orienteering race 18:25 [5]**** 2.9 km (6:21 / km) +60m 5:45 / km | |
| spiked:14/14c shoes: VJ Integrators (red/black)#2 | ||
| WC Sprint Final
I have a tendency to run badly after a good race (and visa versa), so I was a bit worried that I would blow something in the final, since I managed to stay put together in the quali. I didnt (!) but ended up starting a little too slow. I guess I was being careful (even though the beginning was easy) because I didnt trust myself completely. I am happy to say that I think I should start trusting myself more. Just before it got hard the girl who started behind me, Ane Linde (DK) caught up to me. I was leaving the control as she was running up to it. That kicked me into a higher gear and I was able to stay ahead of her for the whole race. It felt great to be running as fast as I can through the woods, navigating well and not thinking about my ankle. On the second to last control we took slightly different lines to the control and I hesitated for about ½ second and she got to the control ahead of me (damm). So, she got to the finish ahead of me too. Oh well. I guess I lost 1 min in the beginning in the easy part, just because I was being cautious. Too bad really, but better than blowing it. Results: I guess I was 12th in the B-final (the Jukola page has me as 10th and IOF- WRE page has me as 12th), 1 min out of being in the top 5 and qualifying for the A final. We had the same course as the A final and there I would have been 46th, falling back down to be B-final. Results are here:http://simeoni.jukola2007.net/tulokset/en/2007_wcu... My next chance is on Friday in Norway as the only American taking part in the next world cup race. | ||
Wednesday Jun 13 | ||
| running 10:00 [1]1.5 km (6:40 / km) | |
| shoes: Asics 1090 | ||
| Running from the event center to the model map after picking up my stuff for the race tomorrow. No sign of greg, clem or cristina. I left them a note at the event center, I hope to see at least one of them tonight at the team leaders meeting. I think next time we could be more organized and also stay as a team together somewhere.
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| Orienteering 15:56 [2]2.1 km (7:35 / km) +6m 7:29 / km | |
| ahr:153 max:172 shoes: Asics 1090 | ||
| Model event for the sprint qualification race.
Very typical sprint terrain, some park, some building complexes, not very difficult, but you have to look at the route choices and you certainly have to run full speed. If the quali is like this tomorrow, I should be fine. | ||
| Orienteering 31:16 [2]3 km (10:25 / km) +57m 9:31 / km | |
| ahr:137 max:187 shoes: VJ Twisters | ||
| Model event for the sprint final race.
This model was all in the woods, the same area is being used as the model for Jukola. The final will have some neighborhood type terrain in it too. There were magnetic fields in the terrain and at one point the compass turned 90 degrees within 3 meter distance, and then continued to make a 180 and back to north after about 8 meters. Kind of a sucky feeling for the Final, lost some trust in my compass. We ran some controls at an easy pace (we being the Swiss girls and I) and then met Kilian (the Swiss womens coach) in the middle of the woods. He drew in a course using the controls and we ran this at a higher tempo, it was only about 1km long. This was really good to get the feeling of what you needed to do to orienteer fast in this type of terrain. I will do this again in the future. Nice of him to let me tag along! | ||
Tuesday Jun 12 | ||
| running 41:33 [2]7.8 km (5:20 / km) +33m 5:13 / km | |
| ahr:145 max:164 shoes: Saucony aura LX | ||
| Running near Laupa at my accommodations before the Swiss team arrived. It was a long day of traveling, starting already last night. Went to Zurich to check in the night before since my plan was leaving at 6:45am today. I slept at a friends house near the airport. I still have to get up before 5am, which is never fun, but everything worked out. Too bad I had to take a taxi once I got to Seinäjoki to get to my accommodations, since there was no other way of getting there. Otherwise all the traveling went well and I found I am much more relaxed traveling alone than I used to be. | ||