Sunday Mar 11 |
 | Running ABC's/Stretching 15:00 [2] 1.2 km (12:30 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator |
| Ran to the start, did some additional stretching. Two deers ran in agony through the corridor of people, while I was stretching. |
| Orienteering race 1:22:20 [4] *** 8.4 km (9:48 / km) +300m 8:19 / km | |
| spiked:23/23c shoes: VJ Integrator |
| Second day of Lipica Open 2007 was generally faster than the first. I ran slower and made some more mistakes, but I was faster in the end. Funny feeling. I didn't do any thorough analysis yet.
I have beaten 10 minutes per kilometer time, which was my goal for the race. Samo has beaten me by 4 minutes, though he had a better motivation most of the track when he as competing face to face with Pavel Ptacek. Pavel was too fast for me today - they caught me on the 20th control or there somewhere.
Also I had a "face to face" competition with Luka Poznic, former orienteer. Our deal was, if he would beat me, I'd make all the webpages for his company for free. Anyway - I felt sorry about the bet, since he didn't see an o-map for more than 5 years, and then he came running karstic terrain in elite course. Ha had a time of 187 minutes. I admire the courage and the fact that he didn't drop out.
Another thing ... I pulled a sleeve of one of our club members, since I need to graduate. He is a PhD in physics. We sort of made a deal for some nice pleasent graduate paper. ;)
Oh, yes ... The course. I ran alone mostly, technically I was not as focused as yesterday, but still ... I had a feeling when I was off the course. So, no bigger booms. No big booms in two days on 8.5 km ... This is something that gives me a good feeling. |
Saturday Mar 10 |
| Running ABC's/Stretching 30:00 [3] 1.5 km (20:00 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator |
| Warm up before the race. Made a longer warm up with stretching. It was good - even if the race was quite long. It made me feel confident and it's becoming some sort of my "professional" routine. |
| Orienteering race 1:23:45 [4] *** 8.4 km (9:58 / km) +265m 8:37 / km | |
| spiked:21/21c shoes: VJ Integrator |
| Finally. Slovenian orienteering season started with Lipica Open 2007. As almost every year. I was really keen to go to the track, setting a goal of beating 10 minutes per kilometer time (elite ran 6:30). I never did that in Lipica so far, but this year was different, since I had a lot of training and since I made quite a few trainings in this area. The last I did was in Dutovlje with 9:20 per kilometer in some easy tempo.
I made no big mistake during the race and as I was starting in the end I was mostly running alone. I was accurate and had a good sense of finding my way to the CP, when I got a bit lost. Long distances were good today, which REALLY is an improvement. I was the worst in long distances since I started orienteering. I didn't really train that, but it improved. Follow the compass to the catching object, choose your attack point ... I really did work a lot with the compass today. More than ever. And it payed off. Mostly. I had still a bit of trouble with micro locations, lots of 10-20s mistakes because of that. In the end, I left out my compass work and got off the track with 2 minutes mistake to the last control. Almost cost me my 10 minutes per km time. ;) But ... In the end I made it allright.
And yes, start time was not sinchronised with the computer. I had a 15 seconds or something like that better time on my stopwatch. |
Wednesday Mar 7 |
| Strength/Body workout 30:00 [4] | |
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| Standard body workout + 3 subsequent series of strength exercises with/withouth weights. |
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