Training Archive: ndobbsIn the 31 days ending 2004-07-31:
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Saturday Jul 31 | ||
| orienteering 42:44 [5] 4.3 km (9:56 / km) | |
| OO cup day 1
Slovenia is great. mapped area about two thirds the size of the palm of my hand... loops and tangles... compass free... got a bit dizzy later on... some wobbles and hesitations but nothin major... 2-3 minutes lost? | ||
Thursday Jul 29 | ||
| running 35:30 [3] | |
| sc ->ictp with eskilstuna map 3, so a bit slower. visualisation not up to much. discovered an alternate route (longer easier) to no5 - probably faster for me but the actal route i took (planned) was, in theory, better.
knees not in great shape. run this evening, tomorrow off, then OOcup and just have to survive an easy week leading up to the trials... | ||
| running 40:38 [3] | |
| ICTP- SC
first 23 minutes with brazilian triathlete/mathematician krerlley (or some such!) | ||
Wednesday Jul 28 | ||
| running 33:25 [3] | |
| santa croce ictp
legs need a break. went for pizza in town this evening and bus back. also swam for 10-15? minutes in the sea... strange itchiness from the water - pollution-caused? | ||
Tuesday Jul 27 | ||
| running 32:50 [3] | |
| sc -> ictp
by top of san primo - thought i might get a good view of the dolomites (and triglav??) but there were trees in the way. and crossed the railway line where one is upposed to, for a change. rained much of the night. cool, clear... lovely... ground and leaves wet. well, much of the ground is still dry rock but... | ||
| running 41:27 [3] | |
| ictp -> scroce via prosecco
thunderstorm even a few hailstones... stayed moving cos it was fairlypissing down. big pools in places on the forest trails... running through them ankle deep in water... | ||
Monday Jul 26 | ||
| running 32:00 [3] | |
| sc -> ictp
a bit faster than usual. not sure it was a good idea but legs felt (past tense) a little more robust. and the weather wasa little cooler saturday and sunday off... walked more than is healthy... | ||
| running 39:15 [3] | |
| ictp->sc
past the station but then back to the normal route bpassing prosecco. running faster (unintentionally) - the weekend off may have done some good. still rickety. | ||
Friday Jul 23 | ||
| running 34:00 [3] | |
| santa croce -> ictp
wore asics today, more padding thn the adidas trail runners | ||
| running 27:00 [3] | |
| prosecco santa croce
walked from ictp up the hill to limit any Achilles damage. seems o have done the trick. | ||
Thursday Jul 22 | ||
| running 35:50 [3] | |
| santa croce to ictp
oh for a bit of mud | ||
| running 43:40 [3] | |
| ICTP santa croce, slightly longer because miramare park was closed so had to go around by the station and through prosecco.
Right Achilles is not too happy about launching straigt into 12-15 minutes of climb without warming up first, running on the balls of the feet was hard work for the calves... still a bit tender the following day. | ||
Wednesday Jul 21 | ||
| running 36:00 [2] | |
| Santa Croce -> ICTP
morning. not much sleep last night either. aagghhh. 1h3o to walk home last night | ||
| running 41:15 [3] | |
| ictp to santa croce.
15 minutes slow uphill? knees are going to collapse again soon if I am not careful. don't know whether the roblem is the rucksack or the rock-hard rock (ground). | ||
Tuesday Jul 20 | ||
| Note | |
| sunday: andrew's -> uppsala centre -> stockholm -> skavsta -> Begamo -> Trieste -> Miramare
Monday - after seminars, 1h30(+) walk up to Santa Croce fully laden. Today - 1h10 walk down to ICTP from Anne B's place. | ||
Saturday Jul 17 | ||
| Note | |
| gash above my eye sufficiently healed to do a few press-ups with my heasd exploding... means I can probably bend over now too. Sneezing still hurts :) | ||
| orienteering 1:25:00 [2] | |
| forest around the apart and across the road - Stadskogen map. Well, also the Norby one - started from the Linne Clubhouse... 1:7.5 map, 1m contours, so a little bit strange. Made mistakes. Probably because I can't orienteer rather than because I was tired or due to the map or anyhting. Style of mapping (or maybe just the terrain) was very different to Nåsten on the other side of the fields... apparently it could be WOC sprint relevant... could be a tough/interesting race
still tired, stretched before after a 6 or 7 minute warm up run to the clubhouse. body needs r&r | ||
Friday Jul 16 | ||
| running 37:10 [2] | |
| to and from Nåsten forest, the map the apart is on.
damn bloody tired - all the training is catching up with me... | ||
| orienteering 1:10:00 [2] | |
| 27 minutes hanging tape - one in the wrong place, on an unmapped boulder - i knew this but didn't find the correct one... despite relocatin accurately and trying again... didn't compensate enough for my original error.
then 28 minutes running the loop Alastair hung (collecting tape). Then we did a loop, un-taped, in opposite directions. Died physically and mentally in a complicated, grossly simplified area - a lone boulder on the map was 3*3*3 with loads of stuff around it... needed food and sleep and rest and recuperation. running back afterwards was really hard. | ||
Thursday Jul 15 | ||
| forest run 40:00 [2] | |
| To and from Clubhouse, plus warmup/warmdown after the Test Båna | ||
| forest run 25:20 [5] 6.1 km (4:09 / km) | |
| OK Linne Test Båna.
Didn't know the route so couldn't go at top pace, especially for the flat bit on the far side. Also, tried running away on the back "straight" but had to stop to ask directions :) Can do 24 probably, 24:40 would get me on the Linne top-20 :) | ||
| forest run 30:00 [2] | |
| to and from interesting bit of map (i.e. to the forest)
left around 11:50 - morning training, test run was evening, 6ish | ||
| orienteering 55:00 [3] | |
| Training with Andrew, Alistair and Tomas - the last is from OK Linne, the guy Andrew's renting the apartment from.
He set a course, we did half individually - two mistakes, not major... - and half together, leading alternately. Good stuff. Late lunch together with Jan Troeng (is name-dropping allowed here?) | ||
Wednesday Jul 14 | ||
| running 1:30:00 [3] | |
| Running with Alistair Brunton to Lunsen, and back in pouring rain... flooded roads... sodden... not going too fast... | ||
| orienteering 1:30:00 [2] | |
| orienteering Norra Lunsen map, SE from Uppsala. Northern end of the Uppsale meet map - week before Tiomila
so good terrain. Some of the time - maybe 20 minutes was spent going to and from "start". didn't count the gaps - we took breaks every four controls to meet up... Myself, Andrew and Alistair. reading the map reasonably well | ||
Tuesday Jul 13 | ||
| forest run 40:00 [1] | |
| headed off to do the 6k test bana... third of the way around came to a slippy rock face, decided it was dangerous and decided to slow down... fatal... or at least cracked my head off the rock and bled quite a bit, so decided to curtail the run. wound was deep but not serious... got it glued back together...
skipped the evening training - combination of rain, bandage and a bit of pain, together with wanting to run lots tomrorow, provide justification!! | ||
Monday Jul 12 | ||
| orienteering 2:20:00 [2] | |
| Training with Andrew Brunton.
15 minutes run (on map) each way to and from the start triangle. Hung two loops and ran two loops. Kept it really slow to stay in contact. Only one mistake at the end. But when I say slow I mean really slow. Very technical area in places... actually everwhere, but varied. It is possible to orienteer quickly here, but I need way way way more training. Smooth is tough. Living here for a couple of months would do no end of good!! Pity it's only a few days. | ||
Sunday Jul 11 | ||
| orienteering 1:45:19 [4] 9.5 km (11:05 / km) | |
| Eskilstuna weekend 3
missed out on chasing start bty 8 seconds... arsed up this race right royally. Winner ran 59. Should probably have come in around 85 if error-free... seemed more technical than the other days, but perhaps just less concentrated. There was a zone of mid green orienteering. Happy with some bits... screaming about others... will have to slow down, read the map more smoothly, then pick up the pace again. | ||
Saturday Jul 10 | ||
| orienteering 1:03:08 [5] 8.7 km (7:15 / km) | |
| Eskilstuna weekend 2
Made one big mistake, one medium.... caught 9 minutes by a good orienteer, LArs-Erik from Surahammars... pack of 4 of us for the rest of the course... excellent navigation (by them), not too fast a pace, but fast enough for me to have trouble reading the map. impressive stuff. terrain is good, by the way | ||
Friday Jul 9 | ||
| forest run 50:00 [3] 10 km (5:00 / km) | |
| Early morning trail run from Vilsta, Eskilstuna, Sweden. Slept rough last night, nose three times as nig as it was due to mosquitos... despite two layers of o-top... | ||
| orienteering 41:49 [5] 4.3 km (9:43 / km) | |
| Eskilstuna Weekend part 1
Middle distance. Tried starting it like a sprint, full concentration, running hard... worked for 4 controls... three big mistakes (coming to over 10 minutes!) and i'm 19 minutes down on the winner... sheesh | ||
Tuesday Jul 6 | ||
| orienteering 1:30:00 [3] | |
| Soviet missile base map, Lithuania. Training with AC Beauchamp, old course of Tomas'
a lot wetter now, ran across a beaver dam!! motivation is tough for a wet training slog. Problems navigating in places :( out for almost two hours bus to riga tomorrow followed by overnight boat to stockholm | ||
Sunday Jul 4 | ||
| orienteering 1:21:50 [5] 10.8 km (7:35 / km) | |
| Takas 5
Cepreciske Mistake at the second control after dropping my map trying to fix my bib... another at the fourteenth... small one at twelve... and going to 19 lost time... happy with the run (apart from that)... relatively... winner ran 1.04.18 | ||
Saturday Jul 3 | ||
| orienteering 1:11:50 [5] 8.9 km (8:04 / km) +150m 7:27 / km | |
| Takas 4
Pageluvis winner 53.33 only a few smallish mistakes... relatively good run | ||
Friday Jul 2 | ||
| orienteering 19:47 [5] 2.84 km (6:58 / km) | |
| Takas Super Sprintas
lost maybe 30 seconds in errors, another 20 on a route choice?? happy with my run.winner ran 16.23 and those guys are good. two minute sprint warmup before the start because i had forgotten my si card!! | ||
| orienteering 57:11 [4] 3.55 km (16:06 / km) | |
| lost this race by the first contro. not convinced the veg is well mapped. also a mistake at the 5th... wrong side of a col... winner 40.03 nuff said | ||
Thursday Jul 1 | ||
| orienteering 1:45:55 [4] 11.99 km (8:50 / km) +240m 8:02 / km | |
| Takas 2
Jadvygava didn't know it was 1:15... would have explained a lot... only lost five minutes in the same area as yesterday this time... some other less large mistakes... not orienteering well... long tough race... not reading the contours well enough winner 1.20.22, didn't even merit 600 ranking points... | ||