Training Log Archive: Rosstopher

District Relay Championships. I ran second leg on the Linné team 5, with Mats and Pontus. I had a very good start to the race but made some mistakes in the middle of the course. Getting trapped in some slash on the 7th and geting pulled off my line and confused on the 8th. The end of the course was okay, but I was a little tired. Once again, I was beaten in the finish chute by a guy that looked much older than me.

Still, clearly my biggest mistake of the day was forgetting my vuvuzella at home, and so I was forced to be much quieter in my cheering than normal.

Winsplits

An orienteering training session in preparation for the 25-manna relay. The course was a series of o-tervals with 4 different forking options. Groups of 4 started together and then met up after each interval.

Lots of people signed up today, over 100 club members in the forest, though half were kids and their parents.

I ran in a group with David, Erik, and Olle, but in actuality, we soon started running as a giant group of like 16 runners on each of the intervals. Stadsskogen is a challenging area for this kind of training, with myriad trails and poor visibility.

I wasn't able to keep up for the first several intervals, but on the last interval, I was able to manage much better, and in fact finished first in my group of 4.

After training, there was a dinner and an elite runner meeting at the clubhouse. The season feels like it is starting again!

Wanted to get a little training in, and also wanted to join the club training because Johan had been commenting that very few people were attending the Monday workouts. Today was no exception, and there was a small group joining for the warmup, bounding, and stretching workout planned.

Sam and I joined for the warmup and most of the bounding, but left early as we had non-orienteering friends coming over for dinner and games and so we needed to make it home.

Beautiful day. Good to meet some new people in the club.