Training Log Archive: ndobbs

Melchior,
Zlate Hory
goldmineterrainifanyoneisinterested


very tired in the morning depsite 8hrs sleep and another couple in bed: borrowed padraic's hrm, most of the time lying down i was hovering around 70, managed to get it to drop to 57 momentarily, then back up into the sixties...
normal resting hr being 45ish...

So I decided not to push too hard for the first part of the rate, and definitely not on the hills.
The first 7 controls were pretty easy, actually all the controls bar maybe 3 were easy, although not necessarily to spike :)

mistakes on controls 3,15,18, total of maybe 2:30-3mins. Pretty happy with the run given my shape this morning.

Patrick was faster than me on half the splits... got him by a minute in the end thanks to him being a muppet ;p

winning time was around the 40 minute mark. Definitely possible for me to break the 50mark physically but the 5-10 secondf mistakes add up fast in this terrain. Have to get faster if I'm to head towards the 45-47 woc qualifying time standard...

Incidentally, the techniques are not that dissimilar to the simpler Irish open mountain terrain, running across or diagonally up/down slopes, picking off a few details on the way, looking for bigger features (rocky outcroppings etc), the visibility is in general quite good here...


Checked hr after lying in bed for a couple of hours, back to lower fifties at the lowest... lower than before the race, still a fiar bit of recovery to go

running UP to the start - destroyed by Patrick 3mins

back down the hill, missed the third control by a handful of metres and lost a minute, also lost some time getting to the control on the other side of some green, not running agressively either

Vyruv Kamen, Zlate Hory

"Sprint" training... 1:5000 but other than that not going particularly fast, maybe because I was tired after the week and doing this directly after the downhill training... interesting in one or two areas... map dodgy in one or two areas possibly

Adamov

nice enough area, not particularly technical, bellyflopped on seeing Patrick on the way to the third control, bruised my ribs... overtook him en route to the 5th, then went over my ankle, lost time on the tenth and got overtaken, nver saw sight nor sound of the bugger

slow after that... lost time on a 30cm boulder covered in moss without a control flag

didn't see the big rocky thing on the way to the last control that, inspecting the map a day later, turned out to be mud spatter

zmieczony

Morning training
Women's classic course from the competitions three or four weeks ago. Went over the top to the second control, stopping for a couple of minutes on the big rock on top of the hill to admire the scenery and chat with Patrick who had magically turned up there at more or les the same time.

Tried out a couple of route options I hadn't run in the men's race before so that was interesting... again it was physical and tiring, if nothing compared to the previous visit here.

zzzz

Dlouha Voda

Afternoon (early evening)

up the hill (180m?) to the 6th control and did the course from there to the finish

tiredtiredtired managed to keep moving though!

Cerna Voda

Blackwater... day 2 morning training

caught patrick maybe 4 minutes at the 4th control, map was strange here with some felling and a hard to spot marsh...

ran the rest of the course more or less with him, occasionally taking alternate routes when it seemed interesting

not orienteering especially well

Vidnava

perhaps the most fun/nicest map of the week. Skipped the first three controls in the green as they didn't seem too interesting and I wanted to have some energy for the fun stuff later on.

At the 7th control I sped up after being overtaken by AMHausken... was still just behind her at the 10th after a slightly nicer attack to the control... mistake at 11 and she was long gone, Sandra was hot on my heels then, as she was for the next 5 controls... nice to be orienteering a little more agressively again

also nice to be on a flatter map without the steep up/downhills

Vyruv Kamen,
Zlate Hory

Czech training camp day 1

Up early this morning after 3 or 4 hours sleep to get the train to get the bus to get the car from Katowice airport at midday, having left the apartment at around 6:25am.
Managed to drive the Mégane down no problem in 2h30... despite this being the second time driving since passing my test in June :)
Today was first time driving on motorway, first time driving at night, first time in Poland, first time in Czech Rep... Patrick is a brave man!!!

So straight after getting our room (actually our second room, the first one had thousands of flies in it incl lots of dead ones on the bed) we got changed and were dropped off by the church at the upper end of the map for a middle distance... mostly downhill but apparentlyover 100m climb in the maybe 6km course

god i'm crap :)

second day of sztutowo eoc training camp weekend thingy.

No paths on the map and parts blanked out so the idea was to work on compass, relocation etc.
Also there were dummy controls after the blanked out areas in form-line vague terrain which made life interesting.

heel was hurting, didn't want to push hard so I was slow....

terrain up here is really nice and it was a good two days training...

dropped off at the bus stop twenty seconds before the bus arrived, very very lucky since I had no idea of the timetable and buses are irregular - meant I got home in time to welcome Patrick.