Training Log Archive: MVB

Rough terrain and hard orienteering. Took the first controls easy and safely. But the 4th control was a disaster. The road turned into a river and I was confused, followed 'the river' for some time but after a while I got nervous and started to panick. Lost some minutes because I started searching too early in the green, after a while I relocated but still couldn't find the control. The area was so detailed. (Rocks, green and yellow areas) I didn't recognize anything and lost more than 9' on this control. Afterwards I orienteered more agressively and found some controls in this area mostly by luck. It was really impossible to map or read this area properly. After 7th the impossible part was over and we went into the hard part again. Managed to finish with just a few more small mistakes, which was a big achievement for me in this area.

5th place, a little less than 9' behind Daniel. First 3 didn't run or jogged the previous days.

GPS: http://strumicaopen.mk/?page_id=148

Many mistakes and tired from yesterday. Apparently most of us had the same problems. 2nd place after Nikolay from Bulgaria who just ran on saturday and sunday.

2'30" lost at 2nd, 30" at 4th, 2'30" at 9th. At the 9th control, about halfway, I was around 3' behind Apostol and Nikola but managed to refocus and motivate myself to push the 2nd half of the race. In the end I won with quite a big gap to the others. Happy with the victory but there is still a lot of work to be done.

2nd place behind Apostol. Good feeling but not completely pushing and some bad routechoices as well.

1st place, some small mistakes in the beginning but kept pushing and took the lead after about half way.

All the warm ups and cool downs together.

Sprint Model

2k warm up with the kids (12'29")
5*400m (1'15") with 100m easy jogging in between
3k cool down with the kids (18'45").

Track quite slippery and harder to run fast than a normal track.