Training Archive: ndobbsIn the 7 days ending 2007-09-22:
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Saturday Sep 22 | ||
| forest run warm up/down 30:00 [3] | |
| down the road, up into the forest on the other side... beautiful place... nice rocky outcroppings in v white forest promised well for the race | ||
| orienteering race 1:10:00 [3] 5.5 km (12:44 / km) +250m 10:22 / km | |
| Polish Middle Disctance Champs
Started a half-hour after the last starter. Middle distance races seem to be getting longer and longer :) This one was won in 42something which is ok... thierry and smola could probably drop it to 38 first control went fine... second and third i was not quite careful enoguh in the circle... fourth i lost time too.. going to fifth i misinterpreted a contour direction (whether or not it was right...) sixth was ok, but proportions seeemd worng... the seventh was a disaster coming out of the sixth again there seemed to be some distortion. knew exactly where i was though crossing the path on the brow of the spur we had to cross, at least wrt the boulders on the near side of it. on the other side all hell broke loose. either there was a serious problem with the map here or i can't read a map for love nor money... went between two hills where there wasn't space on the map... proceeded to grenouiller on the hillside 50-100m from where i should have been. went back up to the boulders and started again... again some trouble... this time went back to the wee hill between boulders and control, used compass. managed to pick off two mini-boulders (why were they mapped) on the edge of the circle and even from there had probs. found the big rock-cliff the control was probably supposed to be on, got confused whern there was no control but found some prebalisage. thought, bugger, they've started taking the controls in. Apparently this control was misplaced... I don't know whether they had really taken it in or not. Eighth control I found fine (or at least I found the prebalisage fine). was it the 9th I decided had been taken in after a few minutes thinking, then decided i might be wrong, went down to where the control was... lots of big rocks above it where i was hanging about... i got cold there... went back to running reasonably well and navigating not-awfully for the rest of the race... no idea what time i would have done as they had no paper at the finish to print my splits... | ||
Friday Sep 21 | ||
| Note | |
| Polish NightO champs
I wasn't allowed enter officially, but was allowed to run one hour beforehand... but we didn't arrive in time, so I was spared the embarrassment of running 10 or 11km in the dark... unhappy but relieved over this :) | ||
Thursday Sep 20 | ||
| running 1:01:11 [2] | |
| jog down and around park lazienkowski
discovered a rose garden so paused to stretch | ||
Tuesday Sep 18 | ||
| trail run 1:00:40 [3] | |
| trail run from stare bemowo z dodo
started raining, well, lashing after about ten minutes. Inches fell... there was thunder and lightning and hailstones absolutely drenched within a minute and had great fun running through the puddles... running in the rain can be so much fun :) | ||
| Note | |
| 8h50 in the last 7 days... not sure this is a good idea, might just day-jog instead of the night-O tomorrow...
running polish champs this weekend apparently. at least transport and accomm is organised :) don't know will it be next week or the one after that is easy before the training camp. at some point i have to start doing more work too... indeed i will next week. no, honestly. found out that the gym under renovation near the office is actually open for use. might sign up this week or the next, replace a couple of running hours with strength training (and a sauna or two!) | ||
Monday Sep 17 | ||
| running 20:00 [1] | |
| pole mokotowskie
light jog, v tired after the weekend and then staying up most of the night. don't know how i dragged myself out for this... light stretching afterwards aren't i good | ||
Sunday Sep 16 | ||
| trail run warm up/down 15:00 [1] | |
| to start, only halfway to yesterday's one, and they kept the climb for after the start :( | ||
| orienteering race 2:31:14 [3] *** 14 km (10:48 / km) +720m 8:36 / km | |
| 19c | ||
| gigasport cp long distance
after yesteday's rather long middle distance i feared the worst today, ad got hit by it... completely ran out of sugar. had a great night's sleep in the tesla brno clubhouse (thank you!!!) and felt better than the day before mentally. didn't have any sports drink powder stuff with me so i just put about a litre of slightly salty water in my camelbak. map was 1:15, and we avoided the most interesting areas so it was plenty sufficient. 1->2 i chose the path option which gave me time aplenty to plan the three other long legs. it seemed a bit simple. the shorter legs were much more interesting in general. 2 was a long way down and going back up to the extremely uninteresting 3rd control (50m climb along a stream to a marsh. wow) before continuing uphill to cross the spur to head to 4 was ridiculous, it seemed like climb for the sake of it - over 250m of it. i was already knackered by this point. 5,6,7 were shorter and somewhat technical. 7 i reckon was close to halfway... 7 to 8 there was another uphill... guh... but it was a nice leg despite the lack f route choice. 9->10 i chose the path route witha little extra climb at the end over the forest route as i was zajebany. 12 was a big downhill which i just managed to run. rather stupidly i took the straight-line route which involved 30+m of v steep climb at the end. By now zajebanissimo, i couldn't read the map going down the slope to 13 and i looked hopefully at a couple of cliffs before settling on the right one. 14 and 15 i walked mostly, uphill. 16 i broke into a jog, 17 i jogged too. 18 was downhill and i barely managed it. By this stage I was so hungry for sugar I had drunk all my salty water ;) 18 the map actually seemed strange, i didn't really understand... i wonder wheher a control wasn't misplaced or the map was misproportioned... but i wasn't really in a fit state to judge. stumbled along to the last control and up the finish chute... a couple of sportsdrinks later i tottered back to my bags and munched biscuit after biscuit to try to get the energy to change my clothes before hopping back in the car for warsaw. munched munchies all the way back and by the time (9:40pm) i was home i felt better. walked around town half the night with a friend. ate some soup and bigos. mmm bigos... it's worth the farts... was cold walking around, also tired. must be careful not to get sick... wow, smola ran this course in 91:17, the beast. halfway around i was on course for 130 mins, after that things got really bad. i reckon in the past i have been capable of running this sort of race in sub120. 110 is probably wocqualifying standard... i've a long long way to go. in my defence, this has been a way heavier week than any in the not-so-distant past (but there is no defence for that) so it was perhaps normal that i explode... NB: Earlieer version was down as 1:51, not 151 minutes... made me look much less crap | ||
| Note | |
| 'twas a lovely weekend of orienteering. it's a very pretty part of the czech republic, not very developed due to poor transport routes apparently. nice hills, nice weather, nice forest, nice orienteering... ahhh... :) | ||
| C • zajebany 2 | ||