Training Log Archive: Lizzie

2 x sprints in town. Had a good talk to emil last week about sprint techniques and focusses so was good to enact some of them. Probably set off to hard onn the 1st course and paid for it. But went a much better intensity on the 2nd. Happy with the session.
Didnt feel hip at all but need to keep up the massage and rxercises. Pretty tender to touch when i get the right/wrong spot

Easter fun at hos Wingstedt. 45min Memory course collecting a letter from each control. Then making as many easter words as possible from what we had.
Main tactic was to memorise a vague route, then follow little kids into the controls as they had maps. I was more succesful with this than I was at getting words out of my letter collection.

C • words 3

Norwegian spring long distance. Thankfully the course went directly to the nice forest in the North, and did a good 6.5km loop in there. Terrain was heavy and I really felt my lack of terrain running in the last 2 weeks. Lost a good whack of time on the two longer legs - same old issue of being pulled by the terrain, not what I'm reading on the map.
Went for a full body swim in a marsh enroute to 6. As in all 4 limbs submerged to the knee or elbow joint. Kept my face just above water level. Lucky it was a sunny day or the rest of the course would have been effing freezing!

The last 3km or so was a lot more track running, through the rougher stuff back toward the arena. Happy that I could push strongly through this part.
Hip a niggly afterwards, but was OK throughout

Checking controls for Norwegian Spring middle. Got given a 1.5km loop close to the arena, which was annoying to start with.
Then I knew this wasn't a HSK event as soon as I got to my first control - W side of a shed size building next to a track. obviously a novice control. Immediately see a control, on the E side of the building. "well that's blatently wrong" I think, better check the number - should be 31...it's number...no, it has no number. What it does have, is a picture of a zebra, and an emit punch?! At this point I wondered if they'd seriously sent me out to check the smatroll controls. Decided I'd bring it up when I got back, and headed off toward my next control, only to stop short 10m later - there was #31, just out of sight, on the W side of the building! (or rather, a good 5m W of the W of the building). WTF?! 2 controls on one tiny building? you can't do that! It's like #1 in the event setting rule book!

Had issues with the map, runnability, control descriptions, and control placement at pretty much every control I had to check. (had some sweet 8m cliffs on the descriptions - they were maybe 2.5m high. The only way you could get 8m was if you measured their length?) Pretty peeved by the time I got back, and then i had my concerns waved away by the controller. Which made me just kinda depressed for the event.
Decided to do Mats' control checking course too to get at least some distance in. Terrain was marginally better on his, and at least I got to run up and over the hill a couple of times.

The positive is I'm pre-warned for the long tomorrow I guess. Pretty glad I didn't run today.

C • Sadly someone on a beginner... 2

Two sprint courses in sentrum. Got the pace right and actually felt like a sprinter for the first time in a while. Can now check 'train for jk sprint' off my to do list ;)
Leg pulled up fine. Could feel a twinge or two at times but all g.