Training Log Archive: jennycas

When I was sorting through my maps of various cities before coming away, I found the sprint course I'd set myself in 2015 around Gamla stan - I'd traced from the tourist map on to a paper bag, so it's fairly basic. I jogged down there this morning, and promptly made a few navigational errors among the cobblestoned laneways! Managed to avoid garbage trucks and most of the Japanese tour groups (they must get up really early).

Spent the morning wandering on a lovely loquacious leisurely lap of Djurgarden with Briohny, inhaling the scent of the linden trees - which I have been remembering and looking forward to for the past 3 years. I was rather disappointed that they had already finished flowering when I was in Vienna.

Middle distance today, and with 1.5km to the start and nearly 2km back from the remote finish, it's fairly obvious which area they're saving for tomorrow (and that it will have some hills). This was flat and subtle but I felt more confident with my distance & direction today and that I intuited the small hills fairly well, although was definitely moving pretty slowly through the forest and would have been a long way down in any of W40, M50, M55. The novelty of catching the public bus to/from the event hasn't worn off yet (all these people in work clothes got off and morphed into orienteers), and it's such a gorgeous route with lakes shimmering in the evening light.

I couldn't face going back to my dungeon room at the bogan hostel yet afterwards, so wandered into Gamla stan again and paid 4x as much for my dinner as I had done last night*, but it was really good Italian and the only way I could tell that it wasn't authentic was that my spaghetti had been pre-cut into shorter pieces :)

*Ricky & Tash beware: Stockholm restaurant prices are the polar opposite of those in Hungary.

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