Training Log Archive: All-in

Finnish ultra long championship. Performance was ok and I have to say that this kind of competition is good for me. In our series there was about 90 competitors. Start was ok, but to the second control whole line made mistake and when we found the control we notice that there was online one (how shall I say this) emit-stamp (leimasin) and there was about 50 guys over there. So we had total chaos there and almost a figth? I get pretty fast off from the control and left alone to the first dispersion control (we had so cald butterflies), but I made small mistake and some guys caugth me. Then performance was ok to he 5. control, but in 6. control I and many others made mistake because the "leader" guy had different control and I run little over from my control. At seventh control I was leader of our group (dispersion). Then 10. control was long way and during that 4 guys caugth me and the guy with me. Then we run in that group about 4km and some guys drop out from group. To 17th control our group (4 person) started to slow too early and I knew that, but I didn't were prave enough to go strait to where I thought that control was so we made about 2 min mistake ( If i just would have trusted to my self I could take it over minute faster). Still I was the first one from our group who notice the control. To the 18th I made bad route choise and then I notice about ten guys on leftside of me. Just after 18th control line stopped and I was the one who lead it to control because I knew again that control is little bit further away. Then with couple of micro route choise I lost some seconds and to the end I hadn't enough strength to push harder. I was 16th of about 90 guys, so it was ok race to me, but only 26 seconds from the 8th place makes me angry. I should have done more my own work and like that I could make my position better... I lost over 7minutes to leader, which is way too much, but as usually I made too much mistakes (about 6minutes)...

Warm up and down before and after qualification.

Qualification. Really easy gourse and solid performance. I was 4th in our qualification group, which was better than I expected, because I didn't give it all (Of course many other did the same than I)

Warm up and down before and after final.

Qualification was good so expected more about final, but I got dissapointed. I took 1. control ok, but during it I notice that legs weren't so good than they could have been. To 2. control I made small mistake, because I hadn't watch tha place of the control carefully enough so I stopped little bit too early to wrong control. Maybe 5 seconds mistake. Then it went well to the fifth control, but to 6. control I made bad route choise and also took the control little bit too carefully. Totally 10-13 seconds extra time. Next one was ok, but 8. control was dissaster. I just didn't watch carefully enough the direction where to go and made hugh mistake: 35 seconds. To the end I made one almost 10 seconds mistake to the 13. and also couple of litlle mistakes (2-3s). Totally I made 60-70 seconds mistakes so not good sprint at all. I was 23th and lost 1.56 to winner, 1.26 to second place and 57 seconds to my goal, which was 10th place or better. Winner was outstanding, but after that it was pretty even. Just need to train more... :-)

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Warm up and down and also running and walking between intervals..