Training Log Archive: slauenstein

Intervals with my juniors. Today everyone seemed to listen when I spoke... I guess yelling every once in a while is a good way to get their attention :-/
I stole this workout from OK Linné, since Sam did this a few weeks back and i thought it looked like fun.
10 x 1min with 30 sec break
10 x 40 sec with 20 sec break
10 x 30 sec with 15 sec break.

This was really tough. Man oh man! I stayed with Florence and Julianne, which I am pretty proud of, but I got a side stich during the last few 1min reps and I really suffered after that. Only when starting the 30sec intervals did I get a 2nd wind.

C • It is! 2

Tuesday night orienteering training. I enjoyed the challenge of not having the trails on the map a lot, especially since I know the map well, this way you had to concentrate more and it made it more fun.
I guess I wasn't able to inspire my teenagers today with the same concept. I found 6 (!!) of them together in the forest walking and chatting, at least they were going to the controls, but man oh man was I angry. After giving a long speech in the middle of the forest I sent them home. I think I made my point.

C • Nice point! 1

Monday's are pretty hard to get any type of exercise in. Would have been in the mood to go run, which wasn't the case for most of last week. Too bad I couldn't, but Marc works long hours on Monday and I have Lena all day without babysitting possibility. Would have had to go running with her, but she needed a good nap in her bed, so that wasn't possible either.

We took part in the UBOL relay in Plan du Bois today. It's a fun concept, you have kids on the first leg (up to 10 years old) and they do a course marked that takes about 2min to run and your kid tags off to you. Lena ran in my team, so I got to tag off when she made it around the loop. This meant I was a bit behind most of the teams, but I didn't mind so much, I don't really like mass-starts. I worked hard on the long uphill to 1 and 2 (trying to warm up, since I had about 2min time to warm-up after coordinating 6 teams, talking to the juniors and getting Lena off on her loop). I was suprised to catch a group already at the 2nd control. They were lost and so I followed suite and also searched for the control for 2 mins. I wonder if I would have searched for the control if I had been alone, I don't think I would have lost as much time. It's so distracting to have people wandering around in the zone. After that I also bobbled number 3 trying to get away from the group I caught at 2, but I stayed ahead even with my bobble. I did a pretty good race from then on out and I kept catching people in the control circle. It was kind of tricky in the green and people where loosing time.
I came to the finish in 14th out of about 30, so given the fact I basically left last, that was a pretty good placement. I also caught and passed one man and one junior in our club, which is great for bragging rights:-)

Lena needed a nap and the 10 mins home with the bike wouldn't be long enough, so Marc and I did a tour along the lake. It was a nice way to cool down from the race and I felt my legs working quiet a bit actually (I kept the e-bike on low).

A lovely run up on one of our closest mountains. It felt so hot down at the lake earlier today, that I could not motivate myself to go running from home. So I jumped in the car and drove to this spot. It was well worth it. Beautiful atmosphere in the Jura right now with lots and lots of wild flowers.

A nice yoga session with some tough bits. Felt my hips open up a bit which is really good.