Training Archive: CristinaIn the 7 days ending 2008-07-27:
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Sunday Jul 27 | ||
| Note | |
| Travel day: Oslo-Frankfurt-O'Hare-Tucson, just in time to make sure I can make it to the US Champs! | ||
Saturday Jul 26 | ||
| Note | |
| Took the bus to Oslo last night and made it into the city for pizza. I tried to eat the whole thing but had to leave a bit of crust. Probably the most expensive scrap of pizza I've ever left behind.
Spent today playing tourist around the city with seabass, joined by Sandra and Siobhan in the afternoon. Lots of walking, lots of sun! | ||
Friday Jul 25 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:55:51 [2] ***** 7.3 km (15:52 / km) | |
| 10c shoes: Integrators (silver) | ||
| O-Ringen day 5, and round 2 of Cristina vs. Swedish woods.
This went much better than Tuesday, though very far from what I would call "good". I'm especially proud that I made it across the map on my long leg and the control was where I thought it would be. I would really like to talk to some Swedish-woods savvy people to see how they would approach such legs. I stared at it and couldn't figure out any good way to simplify - I just went straight and tried to keep track of where I was (like basically all of the legs), but that seems way too brain-intensive for almost 2 km. I was too tired to run much today (I barely managed more than a jog on the run-in), and this stuff was pretty physical, making for an extra-slow day. Plus, it was really warm. Really screwed up the penultimate control. There's something screwy going on there or something - I visited the same two wrong controls twice while trying to get mine. Both times I swear I crossed a marsh that, according to the locations of those controls, I couldn't have crossed. Twilight zone material. Swedish woods: 2, Cristina: 0 | ||
| Running warm up/down 12:00 [2] | |
| Run to the start. I was almost late, so I really did run. | ||
Thursday Jul 24 | ||
| Running warm up/down (dirt) 8:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Paul | ||
| On the way to the lift for the ride to the start. | ||
| Orienteering race 55:36 [3] *** 5.7 km (9:45 / km) | |
| 15c shoes: Paul | ||
| O-Ringen Day 4.
Today's course started at the top of the ski slope, with a chair lift ride to the top. The terrain was mostly open and contour-detail specific, a lot like the Route 83 stuff in Tucson. In other words, should be something I can do. And it was, but I had a few boneheaded moves for about 6-7 minutes lost. Felt a lot better than yesterday, knee only bothered me a little bit, but clearly not recovered from my mysterious Czech cold-thing. Really nice up there, and quite a bit warmer than I expected for Sweden this time of year! I'm getting too much sun. First full night of sleep in a very long time last night. I think I actually slept 8 hours. It was fantastic. No alarm! I may actually get rid of this cold or whatever it is. Oh right, I tied for 115th today, 19 minutes behind the winner. I should definitely be able to do top 100 in this class, top half on a really good day. | ||
Wednesday Jul 23 | ||
| Orienteering 1:30:00 [3] *** | |
| 12c shoes: Integrators (silver) | ||
| World Cup Long
Yeah, this was not a good day. Last night Sam decided not to run in the World Cup race today because of her ankle. I figured "why the hell not?" and decided to run. All was fine for the first ~30 min, and then I bashed my knee quite forcefully against a rock. The knee itself isn't hurt very much (though it hurt more than anything in recent memory), but something else definitely happened to me. Immediately after finishing my stumble I felt a wave of nausea and wasn't able to think clearly. I limped/jogged to my 4th control and began the first butterfly loop. The few hundred meters of butterfly took me as long as the few km that came before it. I just wasn't there - couldn't find the pivot control that I'd just been to, started the second loop backwards, totally unable to read the map. It was awful. Since I could still move moderately well, I decided to try to finish the course. Mostly I decided this because I was so very far from the finish anyway. Hit the next control after the loop and headed out on the long leg to the next loop. I got close to the pivot control and just stared at the terrain and at my map and basically broke down - I didn't have the mental energy to keep going. I made my way to the first aid station and they (very eagerly) took me back to the arena. I think they're bored. I actually traveled a good portion of the course (2/3? maybe more) so it's huge bummer to me that I couldn't keep going and at least finish. | ||
| C • Sorry... 8 | ||
| Running warm up/down 15:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Integrators (silver) | ||
| Some running and walking on the 3k trip to the start. | ||
Tuesday Jul 22 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:09:56 [2] **** 4.1 km (17:03 / km) | |
| 16c shoes: Integrators (silver) | ||
| O-Ringen, day 2 (my first day).
Wow, this was awesome. I totally didn't know what I was doing - first time racing in Swedish marshes - but it was a lot of fun. There were times when I felt in control and knew what I was doing, and I can see that being able to do that consistently would be a lot of fun. Took me a while to get the first control even though it was only about 200m away - ended up going back to the start to figure it out. I finally got to it about thirteen minutes after starting! and then kept a good groove for the next two legs. Sort of on and off for the rest. Really atrocious pace/time, but I think finding all the controls on my first try isn't bad. And I wasn't last (140/150). | ||
Monday Jul 21 | ||
| Event: Oringen 2008 | ||
| Note | |
| Travel day. Looong travel day. To O-Ringen. Exhausted. | ||