Saturday Jun 30 |
 | Orienteering race 1:08:35 [3] 7.7 km (8:54 / km) | |
| spiked:16/18c |
| Very tired from Thursday. Did not feel good in from the start but I was anyway fastest to the first post.. First half went well but then I made a two silly mistakes at easy controls and I got tired.
Course planning far from par... |
| Running (woods) warm up/down 15:00 [3] | |
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Thursday Jun 28 |
| Orienteering race 1:50:17 [3] *** 12.6 km (8:45 / km) | |
| spiked:21/23c |
| Club champs ultralong, mass-start with butterfly loops. Excellent course designed by Arvo Paulin.
Still pissed about my performance at Jukola, I decided to focus on orienteering and not give a damn about the others running. Due to the butterflies (and admittedly slowness) I was alone from post no 5. Managed to keep it together except for at the very end. Hurt my knee (the one that isn't injured) and my calf cramped (on the very last post). Totally drained of energy afterwards, so I was really on the limit of my abilities.
Any session in the evening after a long day at work and a long drive is difficult, but to do such a long course is just insane... Felt good, though! |
| Running (road) race 5:00 [3] | |
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| Running to start and finish. Some ambiguity in the timing... |
Tuesday Jun 26 |
| Other 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Not probably corresponding to anything but I had to move a pile of gravel today. Is it strength training or what? At least my back hurts as hell... |
Sunday Jun 24 |
| Football (assoc.) 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| First football this season. Ball control very so-so but I'm still the fastest one on the pitch. Always amazes me... |
| Running (woods) warm up/down 15:00 [2] | |
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Wednesday Jun 20 |
| Orienteering 1:00:08 [3] *** 6.7 km (8:59 / km) | |
| spiked:15/17c |
| Evening practice with a lot of controls. I started easy, to have some control over my navigation, and got tired at the and. I did one unfocused route-choice, where I had to climb a little extra, and drifted slightly off course on one leg. All in all a good evening, although I have some problems in really attacking controls in really detailed areas. But, given the Jukola-disaster, this was positive. |
Sunday Jun 17 |
| Orienteering race 1:54:00 [3] *** 11 km (10:22 / km) | |
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| 2nd leg of Jukola. I assumed I would head out as about no 1000 and that with a normal run I would have the opportunity to lift 300 places or more. And I was right. However, my own race was far from normal, almost a complete disaster, if I can call anything normal after not having raced at all this year...
I tried to do my own race, but it proved to be difficult, with a hell of a lot of runners. I do not think I was overly arrogant in the beginning, but I must admit I had almost no map-contact going to the first post. Instead of doing the sensible thing, i.e. to immediately secure form the track 100 m after the post, I decided to run headlessly back and forth for a while until securing from the path and even going in the wrong direction to do so...
On the second post I was in control but made last minute change to my route choice to avoid a green area. I ended up at the wrong forking and spent again to much time in relocating.
Up to the third post, I passed someone asking for my control in English. I politely answered that it is straight ahead, as that was what I thought. However, I was slightly off track and misread a deep pit on the map for the small cliff I just passed. I turned for a post visited by a lot of people just to find it had the wrong code. My own post was just 20 m away but I headed back in the wrong direction until I got some sense in my navigation.
After the first 3 posts I had lost something like 15-20 minutes and about 100 places. The rest of the course was far from perfect but doable. From the third TV I got to navigate more or less independently and that went OK!
Maybe I should start practicing.... |
Saturday Jun 16 |
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| Event: Jukola 2007
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Sunday Jun 10 |
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| Spent whole weekend taking care of the kids. To late to get in shape for Jukola, anyway. Remotely related to training, we got a bicycle-trailer that I just tried for a short distance. The kid fell asleep, so I can't have been to unpleasant. |
Wednesday Jun 6 |
| Orienteering 1:12:46 [2] *** 7.8 km (9:20 / km) | |
| spiked:15/17c |
| Jukola-test with mass-start and butterflies. Good course with two 2 km legs and two sets of butterflies. The first one split the group and the second brought us at the back together again...
I was in terribly bad shape, apparently from dehydration despite the recent ancient advice from some masai warrior or whatever. I led the chasing group through the first butterflies but hit the wall immediately afterwards. Way too early...
One sligth misdirection in the first and a terribel misreading in the second butterfly. The rest was painful, including the blisters from the new o-shoes.
Luckily Jukola is run at night when its a bit cooler... |
Sunday Jun 3 |
| Running (woods) 1:10:00 [3] | |
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Saturday Jun 2 |
| Running (woods) 1:15:00 [3] | |
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