Sunday Nov 4 |
 | 50% off trails, 50% road 2:07:00 [1]16.7 km (7:36 / km) +550m 6:32 / km | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 270I |
| Long... slow... but fascinating jog on the wild trails of the Repovesi park. It was Finland like in the ferry tails, also the weather was gorgeous. |
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| C • a good week's training 2 |
| Orienteering 55:00 [1]6.8 km (8:05 / km) +250m 6:50 / km | |
| shoes: VJ Intergrator 5 |
| On our way to Helsinki we stopped by Lahti and made a night O training in the WC terrain of 2000, called Tiirismaa. Ran the night course together (Janne, Matti). This way it is more fun running in a tough dark terrain, especially when there are no controls out. |
Saturday Nov 3 |
| 100% trails and roads 20:00 [1]3.5 km (5:43 / km) +20m 5:33 / km | |
| shoes: Saucony Trigon 5 Guide |
| Morning jog with all the VeVe boys. |
| Orienteering 1:52:00  15.2 km (7:22 / km) +550m 6:14 / km | |
| shoes: VJ Intergrator 5 |
| Orienteering in Repovesi, a new national park just north of Kouvola. Fantastic, suddenly I felt like orienteering in Norway with a Finnish touch. "Big" hills and cliffs but good visibility, often not so fast terrain because moss is deep :-)... wonderland! |
Friday Nov 2 |
| 25% off road, 75% road 25:00 [1]5 km (5:00 / km) +30m 4:51 / km | |
| shoes: Saucony Trigon 5 Guide |
| Warm up and cool down for the Finnish secret running drills. |
| Running school 44:00  4.2 km (10:29 / km) | |
| shoes: Saucony Trigon 5 Guide |
| Secret Finnish running drills led by a pro... Tero Föhr. Very inspiring... even though I felt like an elephant in comparison to him.
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| Strength workout, body we 30:00 [1] | |
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| ... followed by some core strength and stability training in the club house... again led by the perfect model... Tero knows what he is doing and I learned a lot today. |
| Orienteering 1:08:00  8.8 km (7:44 / km) +200m 6:56 / km | |
| shoes: VJ Intergrator 5 |
| Training weekend with VeVe.
We drove 20km north of Kouvola, at the gates of the Repovesi national park.
We started with a night training in Selänpäänangas... a lot of negative terrain. Actually this is my first night experience with such terrain... and I had to pay my tribute... did several mistakes of 2 to 5 minutes. |
Thursday Nov 1 |
| 100% trails and roads 27:00 [1]5.5 km (4:55 / km) +100m 4:30 / km | |
| shoes: Saucony Trigon 5 Guide |
| Morning jog in Teros play ground. |
| Orienteering 1:24:00 [1]9.7 km (8:40 / km) | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 270I |
| Training in Lakallininvuori... another VeVe map, maybe the best terrain so far. Ran on a reduced map only with contours and without a compass.... and got serious problems more than once... another technical tough training. |
| Orienteering 1:22:00 [1]8.5 km (9:39 / km) +200m 8:38 / km | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 270I |
| Night training in Lakaliininbuori. Ran the middle distance Elite Serien from the 11th of august. Ran quite ok between the legs but spend a few times a lot of time searching for the right object in the control circle... I need to learn to have stronger attackpoints running at night. |
Wednesday Oct 31 |
| Orienteering 1:06:00  9.9 km (6:40 / km) +100m 6:21 / km | |
| shoes: Mizuno Elixir 2 |
| Short distance training full speed on Melulampi. One of VeVe really fast terrains... and I didn´t even do to big mistakes... actually mainly lost a few seconds because I couldn´t find the toilet paper Janne set out for Tero and me. |
| Orienteering 1:21:00  9 km (9:00 / km) +200m 8:06 / km | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 270I |
| Night training in Kannusjärvi. Janne, Tero and I were testing the terrain and the first draft of the map of next years Finish night champs VeVe is going to organize. Tough woods, even the 2 Finns said so... there will be nice green controls... and I was glad to have a compass. |
Tuesday Oct 30 |
| Strength workout, body we 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Saucony Trigon 5 Guide |
| Stealing Finnish knowledge... strength training in Turku led by Janne Salmi. Good stuff. I especially learned specific strength/coordination gymnastic exercises. Those are the exercises I am trying to get more knowledge in. |
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| C • Training methods 2 |
| Orienteering 1:21:00  9.9 km (8:11 / km) +150m 7:36 / km | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 270I |
| First O training in Hamina, town of VeVe... rough terrain and at night... not so easy. Forest: Suutarlampi.
Partner Training with Tero Föhr. Course setter: Janne Weckman |
Monday Oct 29 |
| 100% trails and roads 30:00 [1]6 km (5:00 / km) +50m 4:48 / km | |
| shoes: Saucony Trigon 5 Guide |
| Downtown Turku evening jog with Janne. |