Training Log Archive: nana

Event: Venice Street Race
 

Venice Street Race, WE, 23/44. real distance logged (course length 8.3km)
Started off very well (6th to first control), and had a pretty clean race until the map change (a couple of 15" mistakes). Was at overall position 17th there.
Then I got the new map with a real long routechoice. Had some troubles to decide what route to take, and finally when decided made a 180° mistake. So lost 2-3min there... Some other small errors (but also some fast parts) followed...
I guess a time around 1:20 which had been top15 should have been possible...

Event: Bern by Night I
 

to work and back

real distance logged (course length 4.8km)
1.BbN, and first "proper" Night-O race. Short, 12/32 (started, 26 finished)
I just loved it, even though I was running with a little petzl lamp (everybody else had real strong O-lamps, felt a bit stupid with my "funzle"), the controls came as expected. Maybe luck? Sometimes there were other runners, showing me the control with their strong lamp, but there were also controls where I was just on my own.
Technically I haven't been running this clean the whole season. Maybe because I knew I mustn't make mistakes (when I asked M how to relocate in Night-O he said: "never let it happen that you have to relocate" ;-)) I really focused on compass, and memorised the large contours (nose, re-entrants). Like this I always had a feeling for distance, and also kind of felt the direction.
Physically I didn't push, wanted to preserve some strength for the weekend.
Was a great experience, and I'm already looking forward to the next BbN event =)

quite sore core muscles from the track training yesterday, so I left out the strength training...

to work (and back already looged as well)
so nice for my rather sore muscles ;-)

C • Fleissig! 3

With M up and around Gurten. Even with our headlamps we could hardly see anything, a lot of fog up there...
HR is rather low for how hard it felt... Obviously, the running down (HR < 135bpm) pulled the average down a lot. While running up (first 30') average HR is about 163 (which is still less than I felt it would be)

to work and back

warm up, cool down and time inbetween
running drills logged separately

2x2x1'000m/~2'30"/6' plus 2x200m/1'

the idea had been 4x1km plus 2x200m. but then Cedric didn't remember when we would go, so when he didn't come I left and started my training. He joined me after the first 2 reps, so I did a longer break (when he did his warm up) we did the next 2 together and while he did his 3rd and 4th rep I did some running drills (logged separately).

Times were:
4x1000m
3:51
4:05
3:48
3:42

200m: 34 both

to work and back. Has been a long time since I went to work by bike, it's not very compatible with nice clothes and bag, but soooooo much faster...

at lunch, nice regular pace