Training Log Archive: oystein

AM: Felt quite fresh. Blue Powerade this time.

AM

PM: Ran to the Gym and back. Calf felt a lot better than it did on Friday.

PM: Have found out that Fairview residents have a free gym! Amazing!

PM: Got hungry, and there was no point in forcing myself to stay at the gym.

Week summary:
After 2 years of being more motivated for studies than orienteering, the wind changed in September, and I started training determined again. It has gone incredibly good so far, but as expected, some sort of injury would sooner or later show up. So, I got some trouble with the calf on Friday, but was smart enough to quit running. Then on Sunday it felt much better.

I guess that although my fitness feels good, there are some parts of my body, ligaments etc., that do not adapt as fast. But being in the gym also gives some variation to the training.

Important:
- Continue taking rest days once a week throughout December.
- Introduce tåhevninger (no idea about the English word) to my resistance training, to strengthen calves.

C • rest days 6

Stationary bike at Birdcoop. The music was better than yesterday, and they showed hockey games on the tv. Quads (lår) felt a little heavy. They are probably shocked by all the biking the last 24 hours.

15 minutes on a Stairs Machine and 15 minutes on another kind of running simulating thing.

C • eliptical machine? 4

Ran to Jericho Beach and all the way around on the beach and then the stairs up to Marine Drive. Did not feel good in the muscle in my left calf, so no more running till it feels good. I did not feel anything there until the end of yesterdays run, so it will probably be gone after some days of cycling.

Same as on Tuesday.

Cycling at the UBC Gym. Really liked the place. No lineups for the bikes and $7 is affordable :-) An hour went like swosh!

English mistake of the day:
"Can I please buy a locker to the closet?"
oops, should perhaps have said
"Can I please buy a padlock to the locker?"

But she understood it, and gave me a padlock :-)

C • cycling 5

Club Run. Felt kind of stiff in the quads, but running still went ok. Did not feel like we were pushing anywhere near what we did last Thursday, but Thomas' satelites told otherwise. That is a good sign! Ran the last 10k on 41:02, which is good on the curvy undulating trails. Had some strain-like feelings in the right calf in the end of the run, but it will probably be gone tomorrow.

WET at Vanier Park. Felt very fit - running went easy! Was not very prepared mentally, despite the long warm up, so I was quite unconcentrated most of the course. The concentration was good enough to avoid mistakes, though, but not good enough to get the wonderful feeling of flow. The course had a lot of challenging route choices. Had to stand still for 5 seconds and read the map at the start, but that is how it should be.


A guy was standing all alone in the dark playing a flute between the 15th and 16th. That was cool.

Pre-breakfast (10.30)
2 sets each
Singe-Leg Squat
Oblique Bridge
Lying Draw-In w/Hip Flexion
Quadruped
1 set each
Lying Hip Abduction
Cook Hip Lift
Kneeling Overhead Draw-In
Knee Fall-Out

Varm-up, cool-down and active recovery.

2x10 One-Leg Jump
2x10 Broad Jump
2x20 s Stiff-Legged Run
2x20 s High Knees

10x 1 min Hill Repetitions. Felt very fine, and ran the whole workout in a controlled fast pace. Amazing and fun! The only concern is that the front of mye left calf still hurts a bit while running. Felt this mostly during the warm-up; I guess because the warm-up was flat = higher strain.

Easy recovery run.

Rest day and socialising.

Also looking a bit at the Caribean O Cruise Blog. Seems like they have fun down there.