Training Log Archive: MVB

Result: 6th, 5th Belgian

Started easy in the difficult first part and had lots of hesitations but managed to get to the 6th control in 3rd place and without major mistakes. When I wanted to speed up I started making lots of mistakes, 2' at 8, 1'30" at 9, 40" at 11 and 1'30' at 15. After this it was mostly just running without real orienteering which was quite a shame with such a great map. I always had the feeling to have a great shape but not being able to push. I guess I'm also still missing some power to the older runners. When Thomas passed me on the uphill to 14 I couldn't even follow for a few meters.
In the end I managed to get a good result with a quite poor race but that's mostly because many others failed hard. Podium would have been possible with a completely clean race. Good experience to take with me to the future.

First 20' walking a few controls with Meri, then 32' orienteering on my own.

3.6k warm up (18'35 / 5'09" ) ........ 2*5' in the hilly part, 1' R ....... 4.6k cool down (24'13" / 5'15")

8' warm up / 100x up the biggest hill in Drieboomkens, speeding up every set of 20. First set 11'20, last set 7'58", 48' in total. Guess in total it's about 4-500m uphill / 8' cooling down