Training Log Archive: mikee

Rest day. Foot swollen but it doesn't look too bad.

Jukola 3rd leg (long night) - 446 (leg) - 246 (changeover) - 249 (team)
Quickroute
Bad start, searched the first control 4' because I took off 30° wrong and did not stop when I could not match the terrain and map.
3rd control: the tracks lead me to the wrong forking, the boulder was almost invisible because it was exactly under the control circle which almost not cut out. Therefore it took some time to relocate.
Then I had a good stretch until the 14th. Here, I followed a path but should have turned onto a long clearing. The path was muddy and difficult to run I did not pay attention to the map, could relocate quickly but another minute or two lost. After 16 I followed some guys on a path until I realized that they went in the wrong direction, another two. This was followed by the best moment during this night, when I climbed the hill just after I left the trail half way to 17 I was followed by a chain of probably 25 lights. I continued over the hill and through the marshes as the train driver. When I shortly stopped on the hill before 17 the same guys that misled me before passed me, I turned right and followed the hill and was all by myself punching #17. At least one third of the train must have had the same forking...
I continued ok until I sprained my ankle heavily on the way to #20. I had to limp to #21 and could run a bit on the run over. From here on I was almost only walking when I was off-trail therefore I lost probably 7-8' on the rest of the course.
Over all it was not a good performance, I was not running on my own but trying too much to catch a (to) fast train. The sprained ankle gave the run the rest.

Now, half a day later the foot is a bit swollen, but I feared worse. No running for the next few days but I'm still positive for the Gigathlon which is in two weeks.

Event: Jukola 2012
 

First with renni to the Luukki beach, from there roughly half an hour fast along the bike trail.

A short loop in the Luukinjärvi

O-Training on the Salmi map.

O-Training - Pirrtimäki
Picking up controls. Not very fast or motivated.

A short swim in the Kaitajärvi before we had dinner in a beautiful spot at the lake.

With renni and Pesche with rented bikes from Oitta to Solvalla through beautiful forsest. A constant up and down.

From Oitta in the Bodominjärvi.