Training Log Archive: Niamh☀

Technical o training by the start of yesterdays area with Cillin. Did some short legs with cillin shadowing- tried hard to be super accurate and to spike them. Guergiou and Merz were also training at the same time so that was exciting!

Final day of Finland and a chasing start for elites. Because I had missed last Sundays race I wasn't in it. Started near the end of the W18E start block but didn't really mind. My run was FULL of silly mistakes that could have been avoided so easily! The stupidest mistake was at the end where I reached a path and ran in the opposite direction! (not a good moment!)

Overall today I could have done so much better than I did. Still happy with my end position but considering these mistakes I know it could have been so much better!

Jog to start

Really short run from our appartment with Roisin and Aoife. Discovered a "lake" and some trails through the forest across the road. Really hot evening and we were wrecked after a long day!

Out really late today and 2 minutes behind Aoife. Caught her on the long road leg to no.2 but we both got distracted by eachother and messed up terribly right next to the control. After this disaster I wanted to speed up and I did...before messing up on no.7 and finding Aoife had caught me again! This annoyed me a LOT! From here I had a clean enough run. Those two big mistakes cost me a lot of time but other than that I was happy!
Also; winning on the run-in is key ;)

My first day of competition in Finland and it was raining! Wasn't sure what to expect from the map/course and this cost me badly at the start! I had a terrible first three controls but after this had a great run!

Jog to start with Roisin.

O training on relevant terrain to the rest of this week. Only did a few of the controls and finished by running back the road with Aoife. The flys/mosquitos in this place were crazy though so that wasn't great.

Flight from Helsinki > Kajaani this afternoon followed by WOC sprint final spectating :)

Event: Kainuu Orienteering Week (WOC spectator race)
 

On way to finland after a disappointing JWOC. I was surprisingly happy with my sprint race but for all the others not so much. I knew the long distance would be too physical for me at my current level of fitness so in that sense the result was what I had expected. Will update log for JWOC asap.

WU in quarantine and on model map.

JWOC Relay- First Leg
Running non competitive with Aine and Salome and out first to practise for next year/future years. Don't particularly want to try to explain this race. I was so disappointed with this because it was just one big disaster and not remotely near where I wanted to be.

WD with Julie.