Training Log Archive: Keith

Cruise round the downs

Jukola Suunnistuskartta Huuhanvouri, Vehmersalmi, Kuopio.
Leg 4 (the short one) BOK team

Went out a little bit further down than I expected, it all started to go a bit wrong when Alex's headlamp hadn't worked on first leg!
It was realy cold in the warmup, and i was struggling to stay warm, then boom off. I completly fecked up number one, Thought I knew which set of cliffs I came up, parrallel error, big mistake and found it whislt relocatting. Binned about 4 mins straight off.

Then settled down, some easy controls did my own thing to 6 to make it secure. took smart route to 10, but then couldn't makes sense of vague contours, and lost 1min. Then stick in eye and lost contact lense.
Bugger. Not nearly as bad as last year, as this time my left eye, which is less domniant and better anyway, and it wasn't dark. So then just struggled back. Miss on 13 & 15, though I was pretty close to 15, but got distractedd by another control. Really conservative to 14 as it looked tricky with poor vision so another 3mins, and couldn't push the running in terrain - so about 10mins of time loss :-(

Adam had a good run in the mass start to pull us back up to a semi respectable situation.

Fun as always.

Event: Jukola 2014
 

Model area at Jukola - Just doing a a bit of light training. Very rocky under foot.

O training, somewhere quite far south of Kupio near Varkaus. Just getting into the map, and practising hitting controls, fundementals.

Afternoon trains with the boys on a map on the edge of kupio. Was very fun, in the technical stuff down the back complelty stuffed up number 9......
Good practise.

Was going to go training, but my luggage was still in Helsinki...

Did some lake rowing at around midnight in the moon light, superb. quite tipy but very smooth
followed by sauna and jetty jumping.
Thanks Hanne!

Commute