Sunday Mar 23 |
 | 50% off trails, 50% road 46:00  5.5 km (8:22 / km) | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Kaze |
| Warm up, rest between the 2 sections and cool down. |
| Orienteering 49:30  11.28 km (4:23 / km) +100m 4:12 / km | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Kaze |
| Local race in typical Riga terrain. David and I split the 10km race in 2. After 14 controls (out of 28) we did a 5 minute break, so that we would be able to run faster the 2nd half. Well, during the 5 minute break i got cold enough that it was difficult to get into a racing rhythm again. But comparing to the others my 49 minutes for the course was not too bad.
Did a few 3-15 seconds hesitations and 1x25 seconds mistake. In that terrain you fast terrain you count every lost second. |
| 25% off road, 75% road 22:00 [1]4.3 km (5:07 / km) +20m 5:00 / km | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 270I |
| Running to the start of the night training and back to the accommodation.
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| Orienteering 55:00  8.5 km (6:28 / km) +105m 6:06 / km | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 270I |
| Night training... in a snow storm and 10cm of fresh snow! We were first annoyed at the weather... finally it was an awesome. |
Saturday Mar 22 |
| Orienteering 1:39:00  12.2 km (8:07 / km) +120m 7:44 / km | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 270I |
| Control picking on a typical Riga terrain. Fast as hell but not so easy, intricate and sometimes vague landforms.
Set out streamers for 1/3 of the course. David and Tero did the other 2/3. |
| Orienteering 1:29:00  15.7 km (5:40 / km) +120m 5:28 / km | |
| shoes: Inov-8 Mudclaw 330 0 |
| Night O. Training competition with the Tume and Terra guys. Typical coastal terrain, but a quite vague and intricate version. Mass start with 4 different loops. Did twice bigger searching actions but it was still good enough to come back in the lead.
Night orienteering in tough terrain feels more like a game than real training ;-)... and when you are finding the flow, alone in the dark, in the lead, it is the best orienteering moment imaginable. |
| Strength workout, body we 30:00  | |
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| Core strength in the afternoon between the 2 trainings... not to get bored ;-) |
Friday Mar 21 |
| 25% off road, 75% road 19:00  2.3 km (8:16 / km) | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 270I |
| Warm up for our first training in Riga... it is needed, it is snowing.
We are spending a 4 day training camp in Riga with a small group from VeVe: Lucie Babel, Tero Föhr, David Schneider, me and 2 special guests: Sandra and Heli Jukola. |
| Orienteering 1:15:00  11.3 km (6:38 / km) | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 270I |
| Discovery training... turbo fast, sometimes detailed, sometimes vague terrain and very (too?) detailed map. Typical sand dune terrain and vegetation.
I ran quite ok, eventhough I lost too much time searching for the small streamers while I was already at the feature. |
| 25% off road, 75% road 43:00 6.1 km (7:03 / km) | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Kaze |
| Warm up and cool down for the O intervals. |
| Orienteering 45:00  7.9 km (5:42 / km) | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Kaze |
| 4 intervals of about 10 minutes. Pressure starts with Tero and David where we would start with 30 second gaps. As we probably ran too fast we all did quite a bit of mistakes... |
Thursday Mar 20 |
| Running school 10:00 [3] | |
| (rest day) shoes: Mizuno Spike 10 |
| Short running school.
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| Strength workout, body we 25:00 [1] | |
| (rest day) shoes: Mizuno Spike 10 |
| Short strength training.
Because I am traveling today to Riga there is not time to train more. |
Wednesday Mar 19 |
| Aquajog 35:00 [1] | |
| (rest day) |
| Easy aquajog to loosen up the legs.
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Tuesday Mar 18 |
| 100% off trails 59:00  9.4 km (6:17 / km) +330m 5:20 / km | |
| shoes: Inov 8 Mudclaw 270I |
| Morning run with an o map searching the prettiest, lost places in our home Forest in Macolin. |
| Running school 17:00  1 km (17:00 / km) | |
| shoes: Mizuno Wave Precision 8 |
| Running drills before the intervals. |
| 100% trails and roads 1:18:00  14 km (5:34 / km) +245m 5:07 / km | |
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| Intervals with the LSV Biel. 5x(1min40 uphill, 30sec rest, 3min slightly downhill(overspeed)) 3min rest.
Last training of a really good 10 day training block. Now 2 days rest and than we are going with VeVe to Latvia to get ready for the EOC... looking forward, the terrain looks great! |
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| C • Have a great time at the EO... 4 |
Monday Mar 17 |
| Strength workout, body we 1:10:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Mizuno Spike 10 |
| Strength training in Bern. Again, a really good training. |
| Running school 30:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Mizuno Spike 10 |
| Jumps and running school. |
| 100% trails and roads 1:21:00  19.1 km (4:14 / km) +135m 4:06 / km | |
| shoes: Saucony Trigon 5 Guide |
| Rolling run on my way back from work on the Plateau de Diesse. Sometimes running feels like the a peaceful meditation.
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