Training Log Archive: Hirppa

Anyone up for trip to Slovenia?
http://www.oocup.com
The decision should be done today!
Quick calculations: flights 156e, rental 174e and entry fee 80e.
Some of the maps look like Kytäjä was a piece of cake..

EDIT. And Slovenia it is. Still room in the rental. Few hours to entry...

C • Mukana ollaan... 3

Short "test run". Foot is OKish while running on flat but when foot hits a root or a small rock then it hurts. Also up- and downhills were not that nice.

I've forgot to put my Jukola RG up here. 6-7 doesn't look that bad with that but believe me, it was.

Commuting - homebound.
Now that it's pretty much impossible to run, I try to make everything else as a training. Fortunately the mother nature had the same in her mind. In open areas the head wind was pretty hard.

I oughta find something worth traveling abroad. Preferably something to do with orienteering but could manage without it also. Anyone have any ideas?

C • what period? South Africa ... 2

Event: Juhannusrallit
 

I played first as LB, then LW, then DM, then CB, back to LB and rest of the game as Messi type all rounder in mid-field.
The pitch was pretty hard and my foot didnät enjoy it.

Haven't done that much training so now I'll mark this cycling both ways. In fact this time I cycled pretty fast both ways cause of the world cup.

The tendon is in tense state all the time. And the pain is a bit worse eventhough almost total resting.

With the words of melodic poet H. Williams: "No'o, I never meant to brag..." but gotta say it feels good to see this at the top of a link to my shot:
"Detta tycker jag är en kandidat till årets OL-foto!"
Rest of the post at "alternativet.nu" stays a bit mystery, but who cares..
Here's my part of "official Jukola shots":
http://hirppa.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Suunnistus/2010/10_06...

Have been having this sore tendon at the bottom of my feet (quite in the middle, seems to go from the inner heel to ball) for over a month now. Soreness got worse before Jukola and now I had to make half a training cause it was pretty bad. There's a bit thicker part, close to heel, in that tendon (or is it a muscle...who knows...) and that's the most painful part. Good that I haven't booked any competitions for two months.

Jukola 2010, Kytäjä, 3rd leg.
While I was warming up I heard an interview of the top 2nd leg guys and they all said it was top3 most difficult night orienteering track they had ever done. This plus Pexi's (our 2nd leg guy) words at the change over made me take the first controls really easy.

RG
Route (btw, I heard that the RG might be online only next week. Pirilä is on some trip right now)
▷-1 the race started all good, not perfect. I made a secure but not the fastest choice to #1 and found it spot on. Heard LOADS of what's the code of the cp / what's your code / where's my code / do they still make Code alcopop beverages?
1-2 a bit easier one and it went well
2-3 it came close I would've run pass the cp from the right but realised it was the top of the hill right there
3-4 2/3 done of the leg, some guy decides to run behind me and chat like we've known for years. My focus was off for a while and first mistake was done. Got rid off this dude, navigated myself back to the map and headed towards the cp
4-5 easy peasy
5-6 didn't fully execute my route choice but still pretty good
6-7 a.k.a the black leg. First of all, I have to say this was most likely the most difficult night orienteering leg I've ever done. I realised this straight away when I opened the map to see the whole thing. Like all the way to #6, there was no-one to follow so I had to cope on my own. First mistake was that I decided to trust on my new compass and tried to stay on the purple line (should've gone from the left with less climbing and easier navigation). Second one was to get frustrated to the really slow terrain and thus the temptation of a path drifting little bit to the right got too big. Little bit after half way I got a feeling "this might not end well..". And soon after I was 100% sure of it. I spent maybe 2min on a top of a hill in a race of 1500 teams and I saw and heard no one. And I mean NO ONE! So at least I knew I'm not even close to the purple line. Took compass bearing to the cp again and corrected a bit to the left (cause I had a feeling I'm a bit to the right). Saw some light and heard noises, but they were gone when I came to the "scene". New noises, but same thing. Then came to a control that seemed to be a radio one. It was between cliffs facing each other. Thought there can't be too many of these on this area of the map but calculated few in an instant. Didn't still know where I was but now I had narrowed the possibilities down. Little more wandering around / collecting keys and I finally knew my position. I was really relieved but also extremely disappointed to myself. I've been one of the most loud talkers of our sub-100 goal and I knew this mistake ruined this possibility...
7-8 what I'm still proud of, is what happened next. Normally I would've either tried to correct the mistake by increasing the speed or spending my energy in cursing my shitty navigational skills. This leg was top notch executing from my behalf. Couldn't have done better.
8-9 ditto. Eventhough there were some organisers standing 20m right from the cp I went through a small thicket and knew the control is right after it
9-10 again a bit easier one to navigate but surely not to run. A lot of loose stones, branches and undergrowth. Almost made a mistake right at the end but little ole' standing&reading helped.
10-11 easy peasy
11-12 ditto
12-13 made moderately big but fast mistake. It tells something about the terrain that I had no clue about the lake left of me until now afterwards.
13-14 could be one of my best splittime positions.
14-15 on the road from 11 to 12 I took a climpse of this leg. Due to 6-7 I was a bit afraid of this but the legs after it had gave me little self confidence back. Now I had a plan and the lucky thing was that it was the same plan that "some" of the other guys had taken before me. Maybe third of the way I used pretty big path made by the 1-3 leg guys. Right at the end my concentration stopped for a while and I dashed to the first control I saw.
15-16 first leg I saw many people. And everyone was going to the same control
16-17 again a bit easier one. At least the first 4/5 of it.
17-18 another "yay, i see a control" type of dash. Navigated back to the map quickly and found the control fast.
18-F -

My thoughts of the race are split. First thing on my mind is of course the massive mistake on 6-7 and how it destroyed the dream of sub-100. But on the other hand I'm really satisfied to the rest. Especially the end was good. I lost 10 min from 5.2km to finish (11.3km). Actually I'm pretty sure this was the case from ~4.2km (#7 was at 4.2km) also. But all in all, I sucked. If LS-37 IV H50 guy wins me, I should've been in the fifth team...

Event: Jukola Relay Kytäjä-Jukola 2010
 

Working as an official photographer for the organisation and the web site news team. I took shots of whole Venla-relay and Jukola 1st and 6-7 legs.
Mine and my colleagues shots can be seen at: http://jukola2010.kuvat.fi/ . I'll put best of my shots with all the LS-37 ones online soon.

Some Finnish baseball with our Hungarian guys and gals. I bat a run and also ran one. Also hit the first pitch in about 9-10 years.

I guess this is the today's thing so ima do one also:
This is my 13th Jukola, 3rd time in LS-37 1st team and 4th time on 3rd leg (the leg I've ran the most). Best leg in '98.

1.'05
2.'99,'00
3.'01,'06,'09
4.'97,'98,'03
5.'04,'07
6.'08
7.
BTW, pretty much a gaussian distribution.

'01 +42:33 729. 302 -> 412. My worst Jukola leg position ever.
'06 +52:59 672 980 -> 856. Formula Student was that summer's thing...
'09 +25:34 253 461 -> 346. That's more like it, went well.

Jukola dress rehearsal. Compact CC, I liked it. Eventhough Intersport had nothing to give me with "organiser" prizes.

C • DS Trainerit 4

Duel against Wilho. Same route, same start time. Idea was that he who touches the flag first, gets one point. Both left to the next control again same time.
First one Wilho, second one me, third one was a spectacular finish. Orienteering at its finest. We were a bit lost and searched the cp too early. I stood a moment still, yelled out loud "I know where we are!" and in that instant, Wilho was on the map as well. Fierce battle towards the control, Wilho 20m to my right. Cp was a cliff and we came from the different sides. We both reached out for the flag and Wilho beat me by half a meter. I lost also the next one cause I tried to go round a hill (in fact I climbed more) and on next one I was on the same level as Wilho but climbing to the cp, I saw a big fat brown Viper (first brown one I've ever seen). I was reaching for a hole in the cliff but in the same hole there was this Viper relaxing in evening sun. It came close I would've touched it with my hand. After this I wasn't in the mood for racing anymore. Slow paced orienteering for few more legs and then towards the car.

Had to spice up the basic le tour de Brique Laké by going also round the highest build structure there is in Finland.

SG2

I was a bit late from the "call to the start line" but got to the map bucket ½min before the start. I usually check carefully where the guys before me go from the triangle but since my timimg was just on time, I didn't see 'em. It would've saved me maybe ½min after running 20m (#1 was 170° in wrong direction I would've wanted to go, didn't particularly enjoy this course setter's "special"). Actually the best route choise would've been running through the start again.
The whole first leg went awfully. Couldn't really decide from which side to go round the lake so I came to the middle. Alse the end was bad. Didn't concentrate at all. Then 2-12 was pretty good. I would say that is my level at the moment in this type of terrain. Then very stupid mistake to #13. I was on the map 98% of the leg but when it counts the most, I wasn't... Then again bit better to the end.

Results
Splits
RG

@ Patari. I was faster than normally and I'd like to think I was the only one that could keep the pace up the whole time. And ½h before the game I was thinking should I go at all cause I might be too tired to play.
At the end I stopped opponent's 4 vs. 1 semi-fast attack without touching the ball. Got a lot of a back patting after that.

SG1

I let the km-pace and RG speak for itself. Enjoy.

Results
Splits
RG

Some warm up exercises and streching. No time for anythting else (17:00 ZAF - MEX, 18:30 FIN - USA, 21:30 URY - FRA).

10h at work and straight to club's board meeting. No time for training.

Loads of cycling but with slow speed.

Warm up felt pretty good and my aim was to beat my record. First lap felt easy until I lost my way... There was so much leaves and undergrowth that I didn't see the markings and ran over the crossing. I might've lost 15-25s on that and afterwards even more cause I kinda lost the feeling. The rest was just trying to keep Aleksi behind but on the last lap I gave him way.

4 kierrosta 4.6km - Splits

Collecting DSC (District's Squirrel path Champs)-controls away from Tapanila.

After this, there was a moment that a photographer doesn't get even once in a life time. And I blew it... A fox ran over the road I was driving. I stopped and grabbed my camera from back seat. Sneaking to the direction the fox went I saw it standing on a rock facing me. I rose my camera, trigger half way, lens made a focusing sound and in an instant, there was no fox in sight... The posing and surroundings would've been "post card material". From now on I'll buy even more expensive equipment so they won't make such focusing sound...

C • USMia kehiin! 4

Home - Patomäki. Like always, I left home way too late and had to put singer mode on. Massive head wind.

A bit too many players this time. I think we played with formation 4-4-4. Our first half was like FC Lahti's game at the moment. Several cross bars and ball on the goal line but no goals. Then vice versa in the last 15min.

I had no clue what to do and that can only mean le tour de Brique laké. I'm pretty sure this didn't cover all the stuff I ate today...

Probably the first time in my life that I do circuit training during the summer. Mostly middle body and especially back.

HaVeRa

C • Are 2

DSQ
I've always wondered how it's possible to get a DSQ. Well, now I've gotte two this spring (Yökuppi was the first)... Still the day after it pisses me off tremendously...
The DSQ put a side, I'm pretty happy with the performance. Cooper went badly and it left me surprisingly tired. Still running felt good at times. I did two loops on my own and no mistakes on those (the DSQ cp not included - my third but #15 on map below, which I borrowed from Hapardi). On third one I catched Matikka at its first cp and we went together all the way to the end. Biggest mistake on #14 (#9 below). Matikka and some Raseborg youngster lured me to wrong aisle between the bogs but I got hold of first and finally found the cp first also.
Now I'll have to pull myself together. Shape I'm in is bad and DSQs come constantly. Jukola is coming closer and closer..

Route

Cooper at Radiohill.

50/50

I'm almost ashamed about the distance...over 100m away from my goal...
Running felt good for the first 300m, then pure agony. So comparing to last autumn's run, this was way worse. Then I ran just a bit more and I wasn't even out of breath. Now I was.
Don't know was this just a bad day or is this really the shape I'm in. I was expecting more.

Lap / lap time / km pace
1 / 1.23 / 3.29
2 / 1.28 / 3.37
3 / 1.25 / 3.33
4 / 1.25 / 3.36
5 / 1.25 / 3.34
6 / 1.26 / 3.36
7 / 1.27 / 3.41
8 / 1.25 / 3.37
9 / 0.36 / 3.15
12.00 3.34

Very very slightly injured still. Hurts only when e.g. climbing a steep hill.