Training Archive: ndobbsIn the 30 days ending 2004-04-30:
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Thursday Apr 29 | ||
| Note | |
| knees a bit rickety, muscles acting up too. would have gone for a run today or yesterday but no time whatsoever. aaaaagggggggggghhhhhh
found out my time for the Cross d'Orsay I ran way back when. will update when i have time next week | ||
Sunday Apr 25 | ||
| orienteering 2:06:05 [4] 16.1 km (7:50 / km) | |
| TIOMILA long day leg.
incredddible... running as Bjorn Lovang - and someone else ran as me on leg 9... before anyone starts saying otherwise... honest... mass start, ten in the morning. never done anything like it! should really be doing this with the map here... but anyway... running against AQ and Graeme Ackland. first three controls okish, fourth made a mistake, chose a nice route on my own the short distance to five - at least, i think it was nice, don't have the map... onwards and upwards... followed quite a lot. even when i knew the bastards wree making mistakes. but kept it together... met andrew a couple times during the course... and was in a pcak with him going through the spectator with 4.something km of ungaffled o to do. got the next control well, then went on my own a little and rejoined a pack halfway through the first llong leg... pack made a mistake i hung back and met joined them at the next control, then followed for a good while... next long leg i think a few of us made a better route choice - aq, kiwi, graeme... and a couple more... got a control, i was second to the next one and on my own... shat myself, headed steadily to the next one, missed it by 15m, rejoined the head of the group. followed AQ for the next control and a half, looked at the map and woke up - LAST CONTROLLLLL... shouted at andrew and raced to it and sprinted in... beat him by 2 seconds... shocking really. he's better than me and tried taking the lead and pushed too much during the race, so i had a little more left in the tank... really fantastic race... ... rt knee isn't in the best of shape. tendon thing is still acting up. ps met graeme in the shower ten afterwards... we didn't recognise each other during the race | ||
Friday Apr 23 | ||
| forest run 40:00 [3] | |
| bosön
tomorrow's "rest" will be welcome. everything a bit strained or tired today. | ||
Thursday Apr 22 | ||
| orienteering 1:35:00 [3] | |
| Bosön-Elfvik
permanent course... maybe 10km? actually out 1.44 but spent f or 10 minutes grenouillant at one control (or more accurately, not at one control). apart from that no major problems, but a bit sloppy | ||
Wednesday Apr 21 | ||
| orienteering 48:00 [3] 5.1 km (9:25 / km) | |
| Kallhäll - gokart map!
pensioners-O very bizarre... running around the forest twice as fast as everyone else - they were all retired swedes... part of a league run by oldies for oldies... but they quite enjoy seeing young fast (relatively) people flaking around in all directions... all a bit surreal... didn't orienteer wonderfully. motivation not 100%... tired... cold and wet waiting for the bus afterwards | ||
| orienteering 1:03:00 [2] 5 km (12:36 / km) | |
| Långvik
evening training. lovely area... map was 1:15 rather than the 1:10 printed on it, which i didn't cop, but explains why everything was a little strange... navigated ok for much of it... sort of... bloody tired - nearly didn't go out... need sleep... | ||
Tuesday Apr 20 | ||
| forest run 38:00 [2] | |
| morning run, bosön, first 20mins with andrew
pain in left knee appears to be be due (entirely?) to thorns from the 3JduSO - would explain the sudden appearance. will need to rest next week before the IOC. | ||
| forest run 25:00 [3] | |
| run to lidingo clubhouse and back from that map after...
evening | ||
| orienteering 50:00 [2] | |
| training on the map by the clubhouse. old course... going ok early on... then slwed down and got coldddd.....
evening. rained a little | ||
Monday Apr 19 | ||
| forest run 42:30 [2] | |
| bosön, same two maps as friday... no concentration so only 'ran' too legs... tiredness? distraction? thinking a bit about yesterday and how bad or good i am or can be... and lots of other stuff... guhh
breaking in the new Twisters was the reason for the run... a bit to go yet but they seem good, possibly a bit heavier than the old integrators, but seems like they are a betterdesign, giving alittle more protection to the sole of the foot... back to dobb spikes again (last year orientsport didn't have 'em) | ||
Sunday Apr 18 | ||
| orienteering 2:00:00 [3] | |
| map just south of uppsala, not too far from 2001 oringen
signed up for long course, last out... in shoes that were falling to pieces, but survived the race... better than me at any rate. first control i got ok. second control i veered a little north initially, but corrected. don't know yet what happened third and fourth controls. fifth i almos got really nicely, went to within 5 metres of the control at the first attempt, map didn't make sense so i ran away... several minutes later came back to the same attackpoint, believed it this time and found the control. 9->10 was a long leg with no handrails... couldn't even simplify really... after what went before i almost cried :) crossed a couple of paths and then was on my own. and started reading the map properly!! what joy. next five controls with no major problems. then screwed up sixteen, got 17 ok (by my standards) and skipped... .. picked up two more controls, and the map exchange, discovered there was still a fair old run to what was left of the finish... not much!! even the showers had been dismantled ;( not quite a complete disaster - i showed i could read a map at times... and with better concentration and a few lessons (esp ATTACKPOINT, CONCENTRATION) learnt today I think I could run a similar course much much better... i hope... ... knees not in the best of shape, but will recover with a couple of nights sleep and a bit of care ps forgot to say course was 12.6km, winner did 84ish, elites over 12.7 ran sub-72 i think. would have finished the course in 2h40 i think. grr. | ||
Saturday Apr 17 | ||
| orienteering 1:18:00 [4] 10 km (7:48 / km) | |
| stigtomta-kaveln-relay thing - Rövarstenarna
ran for lidingo 3, last leg... a couple of bad directions taken leaving controls, a lot of little navigational errors, but on the whole happy with 8 minute ks first race in sweden since 2001... until i discovered that i didn't go to the 7th control - punch 63 instead of 64 (had cheked the number earllier and said 63, yippee) - 30 metres short of my control. spa. the shame of it - broke the ardinal rule of relay running, and worse, as a guest runner on a not-bad team. aagggggggghhhhhhhhhh it's great to be back in sweden though. bought new shoes - twister this time - no more of the old integrators... more money out the door, but necessary -- the glue didn't hold the plastic heel shell in place. aaaaaghhhhhhhhhhhhhh just for emphasis. incidentally, d renard started 30 seconds after me, passed on the way to a different first control. and am v tired after. scandi terrain, marshes and rocks, took it out of me. longer race tomorrow. different runnning style | ||
Friday Apr 16 | ||
| forest run 1:06:30 [2] | |
| Bosön
early afternoon, sunshine, heaven... running with map of bosön along tracks... also trying to read dammtorp map too. good training. been a while since i've had a 'difficult' map to read. possibly merits more than a 2 - ran further than with andrew, but probably a bit slower. | ||
Thursday Apr 15 | ||
| forest run 49:53 [3] | |
| bosön-elfvik
off the plane (bus,tunnelbahn,bus) and on to the trails for a dusk run with Andrew on Lidingo... how beautiful for some bizarre reason my knees didn't give out after the race on monday - if anything my left knee was a little more used, possibly because i was avoiding jumping onto my right knee for much of the races over the weekend. after today's run the right one is a little tender again, but judging by last weekend it should hold up for a week's training. | ||
Monday Apr 12 | ||
| orienteering 1:32:53 [5] 8.7 km (10:41 / km) +580m 8:00 / km | |
| Haitzetxekoverreko 3
was the name of the map. Again the quality was poor. Fun course, up and down reentrants and streams and hills and stuff. It was a lot more fun, perhaps because I stopped making howlers... managed to lose 15 minutes on the winner - don't know how much was fitness (speed), how much was pussy-footing through the brambly/stream areas, how much was hesitating to read the map to second guess the mapper... gahh physically was ok. the knee didn't make itself very conspicuous. left a fair amount of skin and blood in the gorse and brambles again (climbing, crawling head-first etc.) the mis-placed control was deliberate this time - maybe 25-30 metres from the reentrant... very amateur controlling. planning was excellent apart from that. shame the map was bad. didn't make any major mistakes. lost a lot of time pussy-footing 1->2, having been there, it's probably much faster taking a long long loop around by the path on top of the hill... swam later on | ||
| forest run 10:00 [2] | |
| warm-up, warm down, probably 15+minutes
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Sunday Apr 11 | ||
| orienteering 1:27:06 [4] 8.5 km (10:15 / km) +360m 8:27 / km | |
| ziricolatz 2
the name was the best thing about this map. terrible quality printing, terrible mapping, and as if that wasn't enough the planner made a fundamental error - he put an evident route choice through impassable fight - brambles and gorse marked as light green on the map. after fighting crawling climbing screaming uphill to until we could go no further, retreated a little and skirted around into the dark green, still in brambles etc, a little further and came out into runnable forest... still in forest fight according to the map. whatever about the mapper, the planner/controller should be shot. control 13 was misplaced. several areas of the map were just plain wrong. it wasn't only in these areas that i made mistakes... ... but i think i would have been a good ten minutes faster on a decent map. i should still have been able to manage, but once i start losing contact... gah... 2->3 was the only mistake i know was my fault. met a swiss guy who came second overall in the light green fight. incidentally, he was catching up with me, a guy was coming down (i don't know how he got through or if he was retreating) and said don't do it (paraphrasing slightly). i checked my map and said... must be a way through... so we advanced uphill slowly, as hard as we could... until we could no more... swam later, briefly | ||
Saturday Apr 10 | ||
| orienteering 58:44 [5] 8 km (7:20 / km) +90m 6:57 / km | |
| Le Pignada 3
Day 1 of 3daysoftheSE small map in Anglet. Green. for some reason here we get given maps two minutes before the start. shame, given that it was essentially PathO very well planned, great course... shame there were three+ contours missing (or the path was misplaced) going up to number 7, and that between 10 and 11 where the path should have been approximately straight with a path joining from behind it turned into a T-junction. AAgghh... 1st - right or left 2nd - where the hell am I cos I wasn't expecting this. went right unfortunately... ran slowly looking at the map wondering where i could have taken a wrong turn... continued on, passed the next junction, still didn't make sense... dipped into a mini-trail and came out again... eventuall retraced my steps... found myself on the map and decided the junction was just badly mapped.... i shouldn't have lost so much time, but at the junction i was evidently not at the junction according to the map. made a couple of small mistakes, one at 7 due to the map, at 8 because i aimed for the wrong side of the small hill, as in not the path side... and 10 metres up the wrong path on the way to thirteen. hohum | ||
| forest run 20:00 [2] | |
| warm-up, warm-down. afterwards went to see what the hell was going on at number 7... map is not the best | ||
Tuesday Apr 6 | ||
| running 39:40 [3] | |
| 4 llaps cite
knee not great yet... starting to be less hungry, verging on full, more often... ... obviously dropped training intensity... a jog on thrusday, then the 3days fri-mon... should hold up... | ||
Sunday Apr 4 | ||
| orienteering 1:05:25 [5] | |
| montherme - Roc la Tour
Crefcoeur won in 63:3x ... second place was two seconds faster than me, gained on the run-in. grrr. typical ardennes terrain - at least, it was reminiscent of Belgium 2002... vague... requires map contact and careful navigation... had a decent race. kept concentrated and didn't make any proper mistakes until the second-last control, when the sight of a wet chicken running around distracted me a little. Shame not to have won... my own fault... ground was rough and took its toll on my knees... both feel used, and trhe right one is a bit sore again. have to rest up before the 3days and then sweden... lent is over... probably 37/40 days of 50 ab curls... the difference is noticeable... some arm and back strengthening too... will try to keep it up - it seems to be doing me good. | ||
Saturday Apr 3 | ||
| orienteering 52:00 [3] | |
| jm delaume and i went training onn a 4yo map between montherme and the belgian border, in the ardennes
typical belgian stuff. first time running since tuesday. knee held up ok, but was sorer after than before. | ||