Training Log Archive: mood

Swimming. Open water.

Home from work. Different route this time.

I haven't done much running or regular orienteering in a while now. With only a month til o-ringen it's time to start doing some orienteering and time to get into a good running shape. I'm free from work next week so I decided to enter a couple of competitions. I'll be competing mon-wed in Stockholm and then fri-sun in Eskilstuna. 6 comps in 7 days, 4 long distance races and two over the shorter middle distance.

Lets se how it goes.

8x3min with 2min rest in between on the stationary bike.

The long way home from work.

Intervals on the stationary bike. 8x3min with 2min rest in between.

Slept til 1pm....

Easy riding at home.

World Cup Relay.

Easy run in the evening with Tobias and Tony. We where to tired to do a proper warm down after the race so we went out in the evening instead.

World Cup Long distance, Masstart. Crazy race!

60 riders and less then 1k to the first control.... luckily I was somewhere around top 15 going in to that control so it didn't affect me that much. Going to second I got in to this big group on the singletracks going out to the road. Once we where on the road some of the guys just exploded and i couldn't really keep up with them. At the end of that leg I had so much lactic acid that I was woundering if I would be able to finish the course.

Dropped some guys going to 3rd and was caught by a gruop with two of the other swedes. After tailing these guys for 2-3 min my legs started to feel better. I started working with Markus Martinelle, one of the other swedes, to catch the group that was ahead of us. We caught them at the 5th control. To 6th the group went left around the lake. We where working together to keep the speed up and we kept catching guys. At the butterfly most guys had a different forking then me. I got into this group with Ruslan Gritsan, russia, a polish guy and a guy from lithuania. Our group kept catching guys, especially on the controles after the butterfly. We went stright through the forst going to 15th and 16th and gaing a lot of time.

At 16th i had to refold my map (it was really big!) and I lost Ruslan and the polish guy. On our way to 17th me and the lithuanian got into a group with another russian and a guy from estonia. We split up at the second butterfly and I passed Hans-Jörgen Kvåle, from Norway, during one of the loops. Got out of the butterfly with the estonian. Here we made a massive mistake. We didn't se the bridges that was just by the control and instead went across early and took way to much climb. We lost over three minutes and where passed by all the guys we had passed in the latest butterfly.

he was stronger then me on the last couple of controles so I decided to just stay with him and wait for a mistake that would give me the opportunity to pass him. It came at the last control. He tried to punch while still on the bike, I took it safe instead and put one of my feet down. He missed the puching and I could pass him. Ended up in 28th place, best swede. I'm happy with the result considering that there wasn't much orienteering at all.

I haven't gotten my map yet so I'll post a link to Marks map (he hade the same gaffling as I had):
http://www.stodgell.co.uk/2010pics/2011/06/DSCN060...

World Cup middle distance. Probably the worst mtbo race I've done so far. I couldn't really get into the map and I had massive problems with the bike. The rain turned the sandy terrain in to a nightmare. Most of my gears didn't work at all, and I ended up using this one heavy gear for most of the race.

It took me about 4h to clean the bike after the race....

Event: MTBO World Masters and World Cup2
 

Model event for the world cup in MTBO, just north of Rättvik. The paths where wet and muddy.

Cross training. First running in the forest then some easy cycling. Need to start running again so that I'll be in shape at o-ringen.

Starting of easy but was pushing kind of hard at the end. It was raining today which made a huge differens for me, breathing was a lot easier and legs felt awesome! Hoping for some more rain now so that we'll get rid of all the pollen.

About 40% singletrack, 30% dirt roads and 30% asphalt roads.

Active resting. Playing volleyboll for a couple of hours with friends.

Got selected for world cup in MTBO: http://orientering.se/Nyheter/Lagettillvarldscupen...

C • Congrats! 4

Easy ride. Mostly on dirt roads, but also some technical singletrack.

Swedish champs in MTBO long. Was in the lead at the second control, after that I didn't do anything right.

Map: http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...

Swedish Champs in MTBO middle. Again 4th place for me. Overall a good race, only I couldn't really find the flow that I wanted. Also lost time to 7th. I should have gone up the last hill on the yellow area instead of going around, the path wasn't very good there. Lost atleast a minute there.


Map and results: http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...

Swedish champs MTBO sprint. Started with a stupid 30sec mistake to nr 1. I didn't understand the paths north of control 5 so I stopped at the junction and lost some time. After that I had a decent flow untill the 8th control, where I lost about 30 sec again.

Ended up in 4th place.

Map and results: http://www.dxdeluxe.se/linnekartparmen/show_map.ph...