Training Log Archive: slauenstein

:-)

C • Excellent, she's smiling!! Wo... 2

Went jogging to see if it would make my hamstring feel better. It didn't :-(

It was good to do this.

Party time!

Warm-up on the long way to the start of Day 4.

Day 4- Long Distance WRE

A much better race than the last two days (thanks goodness!). Lost some time in the beginning trying to get used to the 2.5 meter contour interval in very continental terrain for Sweden. When I see a map that looks like this, I except to see the relief in the terrain. I ran right over a hill without realizing it (!) on the way to the first control. After adjusting to the map and terrain and getting my speed up, the race went well. Nice to end on a high note.

Decided not to run Day 5, since I have had a lot of pain in my hamstring since Monday, and feel like it's time to recover for WOC.

C • ooh- take care of the hammy. ... 3

A morning jog with Sime, Lea, Dani, Noëmi, and Marc. Really wet trail, so we all just started jumping into all the puddles. It was fun.

Warm-up for the Sprint race on a warm-up map.

Sprint B-final race.

I made a route choice error to 4, losing about 45 seconds, and then missed the control by about 30 seconds. Uggg. The rest of the race was ok, except I thought some "light" green was dark green, and made another route choice error. Ugg again. It's frustrating that the drafting for sprint maps is not always the same. When running at that speed, it is hard to compare the shades of green on the map to find out what is passable and not, and I feel like in a sprint you are always running with a sense of guilt, like you could do something wrong at any moment, so I run "carefully" instead of just going through stuff and risking it. I didn't realize I lost so much time during the race when I got into the finnish, so I was pretty dissapointed when I saw the results. I can do better than that!

Warm up for the B-Final Middle distance.

Middle distance race (B-final)

I had trouble getting myself nervous enough for this race. I knew this could be dangerous, but I had a good start to the race anyway. I caught Tania Robinson (started 1 min ahead of me) at the 2nd control, she ended up 2nd overall at the end... we had a long leg to the 4th control, and instead of sticking to her a bit and planning the leg while running, I stopped to plan the leg myself and lost sight of her. I misinterpreted a small linear marsh for a big marsh later and looked for the control on the wrong ridge of hills. Once I figured that out, I still couldn't find the control right away and my confidence was out the window. I actually had to bail out to the trail and to the first-aid marked on the map. I haven't had to bail out to something to find a control in a long time :-( I lost 9 minutes there. The next control was only 120 meters away, and I couldn't find it for 4'30", I even had to go back to 4 to find 5. How depressing. I totally lost my confidence. In total, I lost 19 minutes. Oh man, that sucks.

Warm up and cool down for the Long distance World cup race.

Mass start long distance.

I was pretty nervous before starting, but once I got going it was fine. My first goal of the race was to orienteer to the first control on my own, to make sure I ended up in the correct group. I managed that fine, and was with a group for most of the loop. About 800 meters before heading in to the arena area I was suddenly alone. I managed to make a 1 minute mistake on my own, before heading through to the map exchange. Since I was alone, I thought I was doing really badly and felt a little discouraged heading on to the next loop. At that point in the race I was 36th! I guess I judged that wrong. I took an awful route to the 1st control on the 2nd loop and lost about 2 minutes. Still feeling pretty down, since I was all alone and thinking I was doing badly, I was pretty slow to the next control. At that point, Franziska Wolleb (Swiss team, and in Ok Tyr with me) caught me, that's when I realized I wasn't doing that badly. Kilian Imhof, the Swiss women's coach told me I was in 40th after the 2nd round, which made me pretty excited, but I also knew it would be hard to keep that placement for the last long loop (about 7km).
On the last loop, I made a large route choice error, because I was alone and afraid to go straight on the long leg. I went around on a trail and it ended up being about 4 minutes slower. Shit! At that point a train from behind caught me and I attached myself to them, being that I was starting to get pretty darn tired. This train made a mistake, hitting right on the middle of an out-of-bounds area, instead of going around. This also cost about 3 minutes. On the last loop I lost 13 places.... too bad! On the other hand, I was still really happy with 53rd place out of 67 starters, considering the field is pretty darn tough.

Event: O-Ringen
 

Model Event for the World Cup. The nicest terrain I saw all week.

World cup relavent terrain near Linköping. I was hoping that this terrain isn't too relavent... it ends up that it was though.

Arrived in Sweden yesterday. It ends up taking two days off helped my heal a lot. That's good.

Jogging with a group of Swiss runners before doing some strength exercises.

Marc lead a strength workout for us. :-)