Training Log Archive: Tapsa

Not so effective training week... Stithes will be removed on next Monday. I'm eager to start running and orienteering trainings again, but there is still quite a lot of pain in my leg. Probably I need to continue biking and do some muscle&strenght trainings. Next Tuesday I will travel to Montreal and If I can run then I will participate in Mount-Royal Score-O competition on November 8th. It will be busy trip (8 flights, short visit to US also) so let's see what kind of trainings I manage to do.

We were hunting mooses and I walked in the forest couple of hours. No mooses, but in the evening my dad catched one deer.

I had some strange pain in one of my nevus so I went to see a doctor and he removed the nevus. End result for that visit was three stitches.

I drove to Paloheinä hill and did 10 x uphill intervals (shorter&longer side). The every second interval was along the shorter route.

Interval, time, avg, heart rate at the end

1. 2'21'', 136, 147
2. 2'17'', 139, 150
3. 2'19'', 144, 159
4. 2'13'', 149, 158
5. 2'23'', 149, 149
6. 2'09'', 151, 163
7. 2'12'', 152, 164
8. 2'01'', 157, 162
9. 1'51'', 160, 176
10. 1'43'', 168, 182

A very nice training. The first a bit more intense training since the qualification race for night championships.

Almost the same training as last Sunday. It was a sunny weather and I feel that my shape is getting better fast.

I biked to the Malminkartano hill to check views over Helsinki. I have heard that one semiprofessional orienteer does quite often trainings there... Probably I will also do some training there during the winter.

A nice and easy MTB training.

After a two weeks training brake I started to train again. I drove to Paloheinä hill and back by my mtb and did 5 x uphill intervals. Nice training!

C • How is the leg? 1

Qualification race for the Finnish Night championships. I usually do pretty solid night orienteering races, so my aim was to be in the top 15 and qualify to the A-final. During the last three years I have managed to do that twice and once I was first who did not qualified.

I started the race well and based on the split times my overall position the first, second and third control was: 2-2-4. After the third control I twisted my ankle a bit, but I felt that I can still run, but need to be more careful. Maybe because of that I did about 20'' mistake for the 4th control. For the 5th my route choice was a bit bad and I probably lost 30''. For the 6th I did a clear mistake while trying to follow my route choice and lost more than a minute. Even though I made some small mistakes I felt physically good, but needed to be careful with my ankle. When I was heading to the 8th control happened something that I was afraid of...I twisted my ankle very badly. I realized that my race is over and most probably the rest of the season too.

I made my way out of the forest and was, of course, very disappointed. I think that I was on my way to the A-final with that performance. This morning I went to see an orthopedic and next week I will go to take MRI. Let's hope that my ankle/leg is back in business soon, because this is the best time of the year to do night orienteering!