Training Archive: ndobbsIn the 7 days ending 2007-09-29:
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Saturday Sep 29 | ||
| Note | |
| Up very early to be at the airport for 6am to find out (eventually) that my flight was delayed by 3.5 hours. Not good.
Met James in Kinsale for lunch, then got the bus down to Waterford. Home by 7.30pm. Grabbed some munchies and headed in to the Woodlands Hotel for our 10 year School Reunion. Fun and funny night. I was surprised to see that everyone was recognisable and really hadn't changed that much. Some claimed that I had changed the most... not just the grey hair, I suppose... Anyway, no possibility run today... | ||
Friday Sep 28 | ||
| running 57:23 [3] | |
| south along the river, rained a bit... nice run | ||
Wednesday Sep 26 | ||
| trail run 37:30 [1] | |
| before after and during intervals | ||
| trail run intervals 12:00 [5] | |
| 12 times 1 minute
JOT training, running with, or slightly ahead of, Slavek. Good to have a 16yo around to push me hard on intervals :) Afterwards we did 20 mins of trainign in the gym hall. Mostly stretching, but also a few somersaults for the first time in years :) | ||
Tuesday Sep 25 | ||
| running 49:22 [2] | |
| from my new apart on ul. danilowiczowksa
two minutes to get to Stare Miasto, first time seeing the old square this year, then down o the grass and trees the other side of the road from the wisla... went and did a loop of the citadel, by then it was getting dark and me nervous :) ... back through nowe miasto and stare miasto... seems like there's acceptable running conditions here, at least for a couple of times per week. it should be possible to continue on up along the river a long way i reckon. wil find out soon enough. didn't run yesterday, not "deliberately" but was tired and had to start moving to my new apartment... slept in the institute for the last time... my runners had already been transferred... | ||
Sunday Sep 23 | ||
| running warm up/down 20:00 [3] | |
| orienteering race 17:00 [5] | |
| polish sprint champs.
started half an hour after the last starter due to some xenophobic rules... took the impassable cliff (i mean path) to the first control... like everyone else... cos we could see pepole leaving the start from the quarantine zone... took 20 seconds to verify that i had run directly to where the 1st control had been... ditto for the second... ran to the centre of the circle for the following controls... the 6th i saw on the way to the 1st so i felt i was getting close... so i was a little surprised to see it gone... actually lost 5-10 seconds on the 7th dropping down too soon... the 8th surprised me because there was actually a control there. and i couldn't see it until within a metre... 9th i might have lost 5 seconds, getting and leaving 13 i lost a good few seconds on the steep slope (some of it on my ass) as i was wearing runners the 20th control was there, sort of. It had been uprooted but was still where it should have been, along with a bunch of other controls... so i had to check my code carefully :) this was about the first race in a year where i really felt good, like i knew what i was doing.... and i was able to run what felt like fast (although i'm sure it wasn't) too. hopefully the good sensations are on their way back. i hate being crap at this sport. Unfortunately the people at the finish were unable to provide me with split times (or even my race time), not that I punched very many controls... But it would have been very nice to see how far I was off race pace between 8 and the finish. I don't blame the finish people at all for this - the just had problems getting their printer to work... The course was great fun on a moderately technical area... the path/cliff mix-up caused problems for clubmate Slavek who was 6th running up a class in the competitive M18 category... he decided to run around it instead of taking the faster straight line opiton... Many Poles were angry after the weekend which is good and bad. It means that misplaced controls, dodgy mapping etc are becoming unacceptable here, but unfortunately they are still present. | ||
| Note | |
| Hmmm verdict on polish champs (night middle sprint) weekend...
terrain was good. maps weren't. at least one night champs category was canceled due to this. at least one or two controls were misplaced. the protests on this were accepted but (in the middle distance M21 course anyway) the courses weren't cancelled - as in, the jury said Yes, you are right, the control was misplaced. cheers :) organisation and atmosphere were fine if you don't include mapmaking , control placement... Courses were well-planned (again, disregarding the adage that if the map is bad it isthe fault of the planner). I can see why poles were upset. Nevertheless, it was a very good weekend... and the SW of Poland (near Jelenia Gora, Szklarska Poreba) is really beautiful, esp in the autumn. It's a pity the Middle distance map wasn't better. It would have been very useful to have as a training area for the czech republic. Oh well, at least the border isn't much further... | ||