Training Archive: ndobbsIn the 30 days ending 2008-04-30:
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Sunday Apr 27 | ||
| orienteering 29:40 [4] 3.6 km (8:14 / km) | |
| ahr:155 max:179 | ||
| Larchant
Prébalisant beforehand above la Dame Jouanne, walking, an hour and a half... even did a couple of map corrections... then down to Rocher de l'Elephant where I ran what Hugues a prébalisé la veille... good fun, fast except when going up a couple of hills and when looking for the prébalisage which was often at my feet... Map and GPS tracé at http://picasaweb.google.fr/neil.dobbs/Orienteering... | ||
| orienteering 30:00 [1] 2 km (15:00 / km) | |
| Sprint Regional Champs from this year at
Les Pentes du Marchais 1:2500 loads of rocks, sand, slopes, madness. Also venue for the amzing Course à la Bière this year of which I jst saw the video... well impressive. couple of mistakes, loads of slowing down to read the map, completely irrelevant for next weeknd... lots of fun, but I still went home annoyed: Bloody Twisters. Expensive shite! In practically perfect condition this morning, then when I went to put them on this evening after the Larchant session, the sole with the two front Dobb spikes on my left shoe had ripped and was peeling back. Let's hope the good ol' Neoprene 54 will do the trick. | ||
Saturday Apr 26 | ||
| orienteering 1:50:00 [1] 7 km (15:43 / km) | |
| Larchant, partie nord
Prébalisant for a club race next week. Lovely place. Couple of distortions in the map up north... perhaps because the map was au 5000ème Then jogging/walking/running for 2.2 km above la Dame Jouanne... tried doing it fairly cleanly, but also stopped to havea real think when I had trouble understanding the map, esp on the big rocky slopes near the big cliffs Absolutely gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
Friday Apr 25 | ||
| trail run 26:00 [2] | |
| Orsay, after work.
gentle jog to remind the joints to heal, stretch the legs etc... and to see what Garmin says about my long-lost hill loop I used to train on... more to come | ||
Wednesday Apr 23 | ||
| Note | |
| Day off... omorrow might be too. Let the joints recover before another weekend of Bleau :) | ||
Tuesday Apr 22 | ||
| orienteering 40:00 [1] 2.5 km (16:00 / km) | |
| Rocher des Demoiselles
Fontainebleau What balls... chose this area as had a nice technical middle distance course on it... and I wanted a smooth control-picking exercise in a technical area... but just spent time scratching my head thinking what balls the map was. Gave up after four controls to go somewhere with a better map... Met some people doing some interesting things that I can't write about in public... | ||
| C • As in? 2 | ||
| orienteering 50:00 [2] **** 5 km (10:00 / km) | |
| 22c | ||
| Rocher Salamandre
Fontainebleau Went to the next map along where I did some real orienteering... slow but fun as the map made sense most of the time... the mapper had to do a lot of selection - sometimes being a distinctive boulder meant at least 8*8*8m ... but here it made sense. It was great. I was a bit tired as by now it was after 3 and I hadn't eaten the biggest of breakfasts... | ||
Monday Apr 21 | ||
| orienteering 1:03:00 [2] **** 6.6 km (9:33 / km) | |
| ahr:128 max:153 22c | ||
| Mer de Sable,
Poligny Took advantage of staying in Villiers-sur-Grez to go for a wee spin down the other side of Nemours to one of my favourite maps in the region, complete with it's very own sea of sand. I have memories of running in the place in May in blazing sunshine and temperatures well into the thirties; today was very temperate, maybe 15°... fine for jogging around in. Took it v easy as my tendony thing is still a bit sore. It seems like it is better after jogging today than it was after racing yesterday. Ran without a compass. Nice technical area, a good bit of interpretation to be done is places but the map is good. | ||
Sunday Apr 20 | ||
| orienteering race 1:00:05 [4] **** 9.5 km (6:19 / km) | |
| ahr:172 max:190 spiked:18/26c | ||
| L'Homme Fossille
Fontainebleau Circuit A (sans chemins) Nice to be running a race in Bleau again, even if it wasn't the most technical. Doing it without paths made it a little more interesting, not sure that the map was quite good enough for it to be fair though... not that it was especially bad... Lost time on: 3 - 20s - a little further right than necessary, but this to avoid darker green... mapping of veg here wasn't detailed 8 - almost 2 minutes, this control was nice. Run on a bearing into mid-green forest for 200m looking for semi-open land with a depression... the mid-green had perpendicular stripes of white through it with good visibility... and I spot a large open area to my left... since there aren't any others mapped, run up a stipe into it, have a scout around, nothing... didn't have the form-line topography it should have had either, so I guessed pretty quickly it wasn't there, but it would have been nice were it mapped... then going back to find the control I managed, but only because the forest became light green (unmapped) with good visibility... and in the end the semi-open was just forest... gah 9 - 10s, slightly left 19 - 1:30 control was just on the other side of the interesting (boulder-strewn) ridge... I'd like to go back and check whether the map was well-distorted here or If I was just stupid... 20 - 5s hesitations stupido 24 - 10s checking the other side of the wrong boulder... doh 26 - 20s being stupid... | ||
| C • Cheat! 2 | ||
| trail run warm up/down 8:00 [1] | |
| warmup to start | ||
| Note | |
| tendon above left knee a little sore afterwards... don't think it's anything serious yet... | ||
Saturday Apr 19 | ||
| forest run 1:30:00 [1] 11.2 km (8:02 / km) | |
| ahr:133 max:164 | ||
| Beautiful jog around the beautiful Gorges de Franchard... pity I didn't manage to get my hands on an orienteering map today, but hey... fantastic weather too :)
Was out late the night before... | ||
Wednesday Apr 16 | ||
| orienteering 1:49:36 [3] **** 15.5 km (7:04 / km) | |
| ahr:162 max:187 | ||
| Aprémont
FabriceV collected me from Melun and we went off to run the championnat de Ligue course from this year... Well-planned course, made the map seem passable, from past experience I knew it wasn't the best. Not the kind of place I would want to be a mapper... incredible boulder fields which would make for superb sprints at a 1:3000 scale, other places even more chaotic... plus some ordinary bland forest ;) Great being back running here... Fabrice dropped me around the 5th... race winner ran 1:30 I think... | ||
Tuesday Apr 8 | ||
| running 50:30 [3] 8.6 km (5:52 / km) | |
| ahr:155 max:208 | ||
| still not feeling 100%.
Max HR according to Garmin was 208bpm... 200m into the run, stayed relatively high (>170) until about a kilometer in... strange... | ||
| C • Get wet! 3 | ||
Monday Apr 7 | ||
| running 30:50 [2] 5.6 km (5:30 / km) | |
| ahr:156 max:170 | ||
| past library to the Vistula. Shorter than I wanted but still missed the first minute of Once at the local cinema... good film :)
needed a siesta again today. 9hrs in bed last night but only slept 4 maybe... think I'm turning into an insomniac... aaghghhhghhgh | ||
| C • Is Once enough? 4 | ||
Saturday Apr 5 | ||
| running 1:28:36 [2] 14.5 km (6:07 / km) | |
| ahr:147 max:170 | ||
| Along the river. Nice run, but perhaps didn't eat enough beforehand... at any rate I felt crapish afterwards, verging on headache all evening, possibly dehydrated, definitely tired. Was a good boy and drank various fruit juices and water while at the Centralny Basen Artisticzny, a converted swimming pool...
Slept badly after, felt crap all Sunday... headache at times so didn't run... watched Summer with Monika which made me feel better... | ||
Friday Apr 4 | ||
| Note | |
| slept crap the night before, decided to go home for a siesta before possibly going for a jog... got home, or nearly, to discover I'd lost my keys... disaster... several hours later were reunited me, my director, a locksmith and a couple of Polish police officers to attend the breaking in of my apartment... what a waste of time and money... and I didn't get to sleep till much later after having tea with the neighbours... | ||
Thursday Apr 3 | ||
| running 55:35 [2] 8.4 km (6:37 / km) | |
| ahr:143 max:158 | ||
| Still not feeling fresh
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Wednesday Apr 2 | ||
| Note | |
| was going to go for another easy jog today, but sufficiently tired (despite 11hours in bed last night) to justify (to myself) another rest day... don't know if I'm better yet, and it's cold out :( | ||
Tuesday Apr 1 | ||
| running 45:17 [1] 6.02 km (7:31 / km) | |
| ahr:137 max:187 | ||
| very gentle run down by the river | ||