Training Log Archive: ndobbs

to from trainings... collecting a couple of controls...

mass start
Polish squad EOCLatvia training in Sztutowo, not far from gdansk

followde to 1,2,3
leading 6,7,8,
worng fork(!!!!!) at 9
droppedat 11
mistakes 11,12,15,17,18,21
hesitant 14,20
ok 4,5, 10,13,16,19

nice terrain, paths remoced from map, the big feature contours was easy navigation, high visibility; the vague stuff was tough, occasional form lines on a 2.5m contour inteval map... mid-sized stuff with a few marshes and lower vis to the soutg.

WDwojak won in 48

Walked around Stutthof concentration camp between trainings today with Wojciech. Stomach-turning as usual;good to be reminded how disgusting humans can act.

Sprint training in the afternoon, 7500 map.Dwojak won again in 2130, I lost almost two mins on the second control but then ran well, only making a couple of minor errors, maybe 3mins total lost...

which means I'm nowhere near fast enough;...

inside heel hurt quite a bit

didn't sleep particularly well last night either, still just a little too warm. Not sure what to do, other than wait for winter to arrive :)

C • address 1

travelled to Sztutowo today - train was uneventful, had a bit of time in Gdansk so took a stroll up to the fort above the station... bus to Sztutowo was easy enough too.

Had looked at the map before leaving and knew the name and the rough location of the accommodation in what seemed like a small country town/village.
What I expected to be village centre with maye terraced houses and street lights and stuff was actually a network of cement slab roads and dirt roads with single houses and poor lighting and a general sense of lostness... which I soon was. Well, the scale was much larger than Ithought, which meant I took longer than expected to do three tours of the place the accommodatiion was on, ask for directions a couple of times in pidgin polish and eventually find the place.

This took long enough that I missed dinner andsince the pizzeria was momentarily shut(for how long we couldn't decipher) i ended up buying sandwich material in a wee shop with lots of drunks outside drinking cheap alcohol...

late run, started at 11pm, so went to the river and ran south along above the tunnel where they bury the traffic... such a good idea :)

again probably 50% on grass...

day off tomorrow as travelling to sztutowo, the first camp in poland to be set up and the last to be liberated by the Allies, close to 100,000 dead. Maes a change from Kiev... or maybe not. Actually the camp might be the other side of town from where we will be orienteering. I hope so anyhow.

So coming up, this weekend I'm trainign with Polish squad on a EOC preparation camp for Latvia, then head back to Warsaw Sunday evening where I pick up Paddy and head down to Czech camp early Monday morning. I'm gonna be shagged by the end of next week :)

C • "im gonna be..." 1

to and around the citadel

tired and hungry this afternoon/evening... think i'm not eating or sleeping enough or both...

bought a nice and snuggly (i hope) kingsize goose down quilt... so no more sleeping bag for me :) i reckon it'll be worth the trip to Ikea, even if they didn't have the mattress I wanted in stock...

wow, up along the river, 99% on trails after the citadel... undeveloped land, prone to flooding i suppose... not especially pretty, but at a reasonable distance from the road, by the Wisla, can't complain. Especially since it should be extendible if I need some more :)

yet another rest day.... travelling again, didn't get home till late having left ballymacaw before 8am.

stopped off in dublin - discovered it was freshers week in trinity so i made a couple of randoms join the orienteering club. nice memories...

Coast run in Waterford, from Ballymacaw to dunmore east.

I'd run two-thirds of the way to dunmore in the past... didn't know it was possible to continue. Lovely, either in fields or on a cliff-top path all the way...

Met a few cows and a couple of people, but it was very peaceful and nice and sunny and sweet and bouncy