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Saturday Jan 6, 2007 #
Orienteering Forest 55:00 [3]
The only training session during this holiday in Sweden. The first entry in the log this year was a very nice run on the Ryssbergen map, close to my mum's apartment. Terrain is very good and there was no snow. Ran a course at medium pace and made sure I had map contact all the way.
Wednesday Jan 3, 2007 #
Note
This first year that I have been logging my training and racing on Attackpoint has been a very intense one indeed. In April I met Andrea and life changed a lot! :) Later, after the summer there was an extremely stressful period in September, as I was the meet director for the BC Champs and at the same time I had a dead line at work. Also the year ended with a long stretch of hard and stressful work at the office trying to complete the products we're working on.
The number of days I have been sick this year is a staggering 61, two full months of sickness! This has never happened in my adult life before. The killer was a 5 week long virus and bacterial infection combo that I was fighting all of May and half of June. Several people at the office caught the exact same thing. It was weird. Clearly, one goal for 2007 is to cut down on the sick days... :)
I logged a total of 169 hours of activity in 2006, which is pretty far from the 250 I had hoped for. 34 hours of orienteering in the forest and almost 28 hours of orienteering in city/park environment. That's a good percentage of actual orienteering for a place like Vancouver as your base for living, where there is no good terrain close to the city.
Despite all the wonderful and weird stuff in my life this year, I managed to do some pretty amazing orienteering! Considering the circumstances this year, I feel like I had some ok performances. Here is a list of my 5 favorite races this year:
1: 3rd leg at Jukola, the long night, on the GVOC team. A memory for life. The first time ever a Canadian club team did this race. Amazing event in all aspects. Great terrain, tough and tricky. I had a great run with only a minute of mistakes in 110 minutes of running.
2: Middle at NAOC in Ontario. I made over 3 minutes of mistakes on 2 controls, missing the podium, but the rest of the course I had a solid run in very difficult terrain. It was a heavenly week of orienteering. Great terrain and courses. Fantastic weather and amazing hospitality at the Piller estate.
3: Long at the Western Canadian Champs in Whitehorse, Yukon. The best planned course that I ran this year. Great and difficult route choice and tricky detailed navigation in between. Didn't have a clean race, but everyone else made huge mistakes and I ended up winning this one, which is always fun :) I love orienteering in Whitehorse and I had a great weekend staying with Ross and his family.
4: Sprint at the US Team fund raiser in Florida. I never thought I would run orienteering in the sandy pine forest of Florida. Another memory for life! This race was early in the season when I was in decent shape. The sprint course was a pretty easy one, but I had a very fast and clean race. The one other race that I won this year.
5: Middle at Barebones. Canadian Team trial in amazingly nice pine forest terrain in Alberta. I was sick with a virus and I later learned that I had a bacterial infection in my ears as well... I ran a slow, but technically close to perfect race and ended up 3rd in stiff competition. I think a lot of the runners who were trying out for the team were nervous and made mistakes. Smokey Lake had some truly heavenly terrain!
My goals for 2007 is to be (much) less sick and be more consistent with my training through the year, aiming at around 200 hours. The only event I'm sure I will be doing at the moment is the 5-day event in Czech Republic in August, since Andrea's club is organizing it, but I'm sure I will go to some other wonderful spots in the world for orienteering as well.
The number of days I have been sick this year is a staggering 61, two full months of sickness! This has never happened in my adult life before. The killer was a 5 week long virus and bacterial infection combo that I was fighting all of May and half of June. Several people at the office caught the exact same thing. It was weird. Clearly, one goal for 2007 is to cut down on the sick days... :)
I logged a total of 169 hours of activity in 2006, which is pretty far from the 250 I had hoped for. 34 hours of orienteering in the forest and almost 28 hours of orienteering in city/park environment. That's a good percentage of actual orienteering for a place like Vancouver as your base for living, where there is no good terrain close to the city.
Despite all the wonderful and weird stuff in my life this year, I managed to do some pretty amazing orienteering! Considering the circumstances this year, I feel like I had some ok performances. Here is a list of my 5 favorite races this year:
1: 3rd leg at Jukola, the long night, on the GVOC team. A memory for life. The first time ever a Canadian club team did this race. Amazing event in all aspects. Great terrain, tough and tricky. I had a great run with only a minute of mistakes in 110 minutes of running.
2: Middle at NAOC in Ontario. I made over 3 minutes of mistakes on 2 controls, missing the podium, but the rest of the course I had a solid run in very difficult terrain. It was a heavenly week of orienteering. Great terrain and courses. Fantastic weather and amazing hospitality at the Piller estate.
3: Long at the Western Canadian Champs in Whitehorse, Yukon. The best planned course that I ran this year. Great and difficult route choice and tricky detailed navigation in between. Didn't have a clean race, but everyone else made huge mistakes and I ended up winning this one, which is always fun :) I love orienteering in Whitehorse and I had a great weekend staying with Ross and his family.
4: Sprint at the US Team fund raiser in Florida. I never thought I would run orienteering in the sandy pine forest of Florida. Another memory for life! This race was early in the season when I was in decent shape. The sprint course was a pretty easy one, but I had a very fast and clean race. The one other race that I won this year.
5: Middle at Barebones. Canadian Team trial in amazingly nice pine forest terrain in Alberta. I was sick with a virus and I later learned that I had a bacterial infection in my ears as well... I ran a slow, but technically close to perfect race and ended up 3rd in stiff competition. I think a lot of the runners who were trying out for the team were nervous and made mistakes. Smokey Lake had some truly heavenly terrain!
My goals for 2007 is to be (much) less sick and be more consistent with my training through the year, aiming at around 200 hours. The only event I'm sure I will be doing at the moment is the 5-day event in Czech Republic in August, since Andrea's club is organizing it, but I'm sure I will go to some other wonderful spots in the world for orienteering as well.