Training Archive: SwisscheeseIn the 7 days ending 2007-11-11:
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Sunday Nov 11 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Baby sitting day... I am freshly a five time uncle! | ||
Saturday Nov 10 | ||
| 25% off road, 75% road 48:00 [1]8 km (6:00 / km) +150m 5:29 / km | |
| (rest day) shoes: Inov 8 Roclite 285 | ||
| Footing with my neighbor downstairs Jan. Fantastic winter conditions... the whole day it was snowing up here in Macolin. It feels like the deepest winter.
Tested a new pair of shoes I have been given to try out... not bad, actually very nice shoe. Low to the ground, no gimmick and the outsole seems to have a very good rubber which almost sticks to wet rocks. I have already been trying out the Inov8 Mudclaw in Finland and I was very satisfied with it. Certainly a good alternative at least for training to the usual VJ and Co. | ||
| C • Send some of that snow our ... 1 | ||
Friday Nov 9 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Flying back from Finland. My holidays are over, real life starts again.
Those 10 days after the Smalandskavlen were a great time! Pure fine orienteering and a relaxing vacation. I was able to see very divers Finish terrains in Hamina, Repovesi, Lahti and Helsinki, meet great O freaks even crazier than me and enjoy Finish lifestyle. In those 10 days I orienteered 15x times, 9x times at night (10h40, 84km) and 6x at daytime (7h10, 60km). I believe I made quite a bit of progress in my orienteering skills, especially at night. But to equal Janne and Miiko on the Pirttimäki contour map at night there is still some training to do. I trained 26 hours... and ironically it is not the 23 hours of running which killed me at the end but the little 1 hour gymnastic in Otaniemis gymnastic hall led by Antti... Overall this training camp was tough but fun training... now I am ready to take my winter break and I am already getting hungry to train in the best possible way for next years challenges. Thanks VeVe, espcially Janne, Tero and all my hosts. | ||
Thursday Nov 8 | ||
| 100% off trails 25:00 | |
| shoes: VJ Intergrator 7 | ||
| Warm up for the O intervals. It needed to be longer than usual... my hamstring and butt muscles are extremely sore from yesterdays jumps... getting out of bed I believed I wouldn't be able to run today. | ||
| Orienteering 50:00 | |
| shoes: VJ Intergrator 7 | ||
| 4x 1.2km O intervals in Luukkaa-Sorvalampi. After a big mistake on the first control of the first intervals, running the wrong course on the 2nd intervals because there were so many controls on the map I ran quite alright the 2 last intervals. I guess my legs from yesterdays jumps and my brain from the cold needed a long time to warm up... but by the end of the training I was actually enjoying the flow. | ||
| C • How are these intervals str... 4 | ||
| Orienteering 1:22:00 | |
| shoes: VJ Intergrator 7 | ||
| Night O training in Pirkttimäki on a contour map... printed in black and white. I was quite afraid of that training, and the first controls I wasn't able to get the "O-grip" following Miiko and Janne, but than slowly I started to understand how to run and by the end I was even able to take from time to time the lead...
We did a "mass start" with Miiko, Janne, Vesa, Antti, Jarkko and Raino. | ||
Wednesday Nov 7 | ||
| 100% trails and roads 33:00 [1]7 km (4:43 / km) | |
| shoes: Saucony Trigon 5 Guide | ||
| Warm up and cool down for the strength circuit. Running around Otaniemi and cool down in the gymnastic hall on the 200m track. 5x 80m sprints included in the cool down. | ||
| Strength workout, body we 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Mizuno Elixir 2 | ||
| Strength circuit with jumps led by Antti Harju. Oh, I already feel now that those jumps will leave some scares for tomorrow. | ||
| Orienteering 1:22:00 | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 270I | ||
| Night training in Stormossen. Another coastal terrain of Helsinki. A lot of fun. Running in a group of 5 people makes it easier to find the rythm, especially when one of them is Mikko Heinonen and the other one is Vesa Taanila. | ||
Tuesday Nov 6 | ||
| Orienteering 1:20:00 | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 270I | ||
| Training on a coastal terrain west of Helsinki, close to Kirkkonummi. Name of the map: Kopparnäs 4.
The visibility was very good on bare rocks, which is most often the case on coastal terrains, Kopparnäs was not an exeption. When there was forest, though, the vegetation was quite dense. The good visibility made the orienteering quite easy, but twice I got fooled because I got too lazy in my orienteering. As the terrain is quite vague, parallel mistakes can actually happen faster than I thought. Antti Harju shadowed me. | ||
| Orienteering 1:06:00 | |
| shoes: VJ Intergrator 7 | ||
| Organized night training in Halkolampi. Troubles in the control area seeing the feature and especially the "reflective" control sticks, loosing several times more than a minute. Quite ok on the routes. | ||
Monday Nov 5 | ||
| 50% off trails, 50% road 29:00 | |
| shoes: VJ Intergrator 5 | ||
| Tour of Finland goes on... after Turku, Hamina, Kouvola, Lahti I am in Helsinki staying at Antti Harju's place. Janne, my tourist guide has to study here and I can have the car to go orienteering.
Warm up for the short distance training. | ||
| Orienteering 30:00 [4]5.6 km (5:21 / km) +100m 4:55 / km | |
| shoes: VJ Intergrator 5 | ||
| Middle distance training in Pirttimäki. Terrain located just north of Espoo.
Didn't have any controls and there was enough snow that going through most of the bushes I would come out like a snowman, so it was difficult to keep the focus. But it was certainly a good training to try to keep the concentration high eventhough external factors were difficult. I lost about 40secs because I read to the wrong control, and a few other seconds for not so clean route choices and especially not totally clean executions. Again and again for the last week... another beautiful playground! | ||
| Town orienteering 42:00 [1]7.9 km (5:19 / km) +50m 5:09 / km | |
| shoes: Saucony Trigon 5 Guide | ||
| Night orienteering in Otaniemi. Fortunately Antti and Janne were running with me... didn't feel so fresh anymore and they helped having an ok pace.
First time I was doing town orienteering at night. Pretty cool actually, makes it more difficult because you can't see the features far away you are aiming at... would be interesting to do it as a race. | ||
| Strength workout, body we 30:00 [1] | |
| After the night orienteering we went into the gym... to do our core exercises on the small mats between the real tough guys lifting weights. | ||