Friday Jun 30 |
 | Orienteering Forest 20:00 [3] | |
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| On the Ryssbergen map again. Last training here before going back to Vancouver. Started out just running on the map and navigating as I went. |
| Running Rough 40:00 [3] | |
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| Then I decided to run over to my friend Mattias's parents house, which was just outside the map, so I swithed over to running on some trails and along a powerline to get there faster. I had to be back within the hour. |
Wednesday Jun 28 |
| Orienteering Forest 1:02:00 [3] 8.17 km (7:35 / km) | |
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| Nice run on the Ryssbergen map again, close to my mums apartment. First run since Jukola and I felt a bit slow after a week of travel, late nights, partying and the wedding of my best friend. Terrain is really nice and technical and I didn't make any mistakes in the navigation at all. My new Integrator shoes worked well! |
Sunday Jun 18 |
| Orienteering Forest race (long) 1:50:50 [4] 12.98 km (8:32 / km) | |
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| Third leg of the Jukola for GVOC, the long night. It was starting to get rather light out when Louise came in after an awesome run on the second leg, but I kept my headlamp on and that was needed on the first part of the course. Very tough terrain with extremely detailed hills and some pretty crappy stuff in between. Lots of climb. Since I had been sick for so long, I just wanted a solid technical run and I was very successful with this. Nailed every single control except one, where I lost less than a minute. I don't think I always took the best route though. Picked up 160 spots! Fantastic experience and the whole team was very happy in the end to have completed this tough version of Jukola. |
Saturday Jun 17 |
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| Event: Jukola
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Friday Jun 16 |
| Orienteering Forest 40:00 [3] | |
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| Last training before going to Jukola. Ran on a map close to my mum's place. We mass started and pretended it was a relay situation. Fun! |
Thursday Jun 15 |
| Orienteering Forest 1:15:00 [3] | |
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| Back home in Sweden and I took Robin, Louise and Meghan out on one of the sweetest maps in the area called Nynäs. Nice day and heavenly terrain! Robin and I ran together and took turn leading. We were kind of slow, but we stayed in touch with the very technical map and didn't make many mistakes. |
Sunday Jun 4 |
| Orienteering Forest race (middle) 54:22 [3] 7.3 km (7:27 / km) | |
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| For the long distance I switched down to course 4. I just had to get out in this amazing and heavenly terrain! Took a very long route around the green to control 3, straight through turned out to be much faster. Then I had a big (~4 min) mistake to control 8. I slightly got off direction, even though I really tried to follow my compass, and then I got into the wrong flat area to the left of the control and made a parallell error. Recovered reasonably well, though, given the size of the mistake.
This must be one of the best places I have ever orienteered in!
Map and route on RouteGadget. |
Saturday Jun 3 |
| Orienteering Forest race (middle) 29:08 [3] 4.5 km (6:28 / km) | |
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| Middle distance race at Barebones. I felt a bit better after a long and solid sleep. During the warm-up it was clear that the terrain was absolutely fantastic and I felt excited and motivated to have a clean technical run. From the start, I felt like the map was great and I settled into my now well established "sickness speed". Flowed really well and stayed in touch with the map until 5. Then I struggled to find a good straight line to 6 and hesitated several times along the way. I didn't really miss the control, but lost a minute on the leg. Then to 8 everything was extremely vague and the supposedly 5 metre contours felt more like 1 metre contours. I came to a control in a very shallow depression. I looked at the map and just couldn't find anything that fit what I saw, but after some time I decided that the only thing it could be was a 5 metre depression with an extra formline in it. Took a bearing from this feature and soon hit my control! Only lost 15 seconds in the end. The rest of course went with no further problem. I ended up only 18 seconds behind the winner which was very surprising considering my slow running. There were just too many mistakes made by the rest of the field.
Map and route on RouteGadget.
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| Orienteering Forest race (sprint) 18:55 [4] 2.8 km (6:45 / km) | |
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| Barebones sprint. Started out with a very difficult control in the middle of the green. Was too much to the right and lost 30 seconds here and then some more time through the green to the second control. After that, the terrain opened up and I didn't really have any more problems. Wish I was healthy, so that I could actually run hard...
Map and route on RouteGadget. |
Friday Jun 2 |
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| Event: Barebones 2006 & Team Trials
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| Orienteering Forest race (sprint) 24:23 [3] 2.7 km (9:02 / km) | |
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| I didn't feel good at all this day as I'm just continuing to be sick.
I felt like I couldn't run at all during a short warm-up and so my mind wasn't ready when the race started. Right off the bat, I couldn't make much sense of the map and I had big troubles on the first control. After that the motivation was very low and I just jogged the rest of the way, but I continued to have problems in the very subtle terrain.
Map and route on RouteGadget.
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