Friday Oct 27 |
 | Circuit 30:00 [3] | |
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| Ballgame warm up/down 1:00:00 [3] | |
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Thursday Oct 19 |
| Running (road) 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| As I skipped last weeks 15-man relay to spend some quality time with my basement, the season ended with NAOC and that was the perfect way to do it. It left me with a good mood and a lot of motivation for next season. October has for long been a season of low activity and my basement will need more attention for some time. But next year..., well we'll see if there will be any time for training when the family grows...
I started keeping this log in order to be embarrasingly honest with myself. Meaning that when I start preparing for the Finnish night-o champs, coming up in less than 11 months, I can come back to this log and get any hopes of performing grounded to a realistic level. Thus I would perhaps understand that I have to do my own race, focus on navigation and by avoiding mistakes do as good a race as I can. Fat chance!
I'm loggong here because I thought no one would be reading. However, there is a little counter on the bottom of the page, and during the past week of inactivity it has been ticking away impressively, adding to the embarrasment at least. Well hello everyone, sorry to disappoint you! This is as much as it will be; a few good weeks and several empty periods completed with occasional running along the beautiful small roads in the vicinity. I'm not logging the time spent swimmong or doing gymnastics with my daughter (although it leaves me exhausted). Its entertainment more than training.
Anyway, for next year I'll be aiming at the said night-o champs, the 43-relay (where putting the team together is half the challenge), not making a complete fool of myslef in Jukola and defendign some of the club champs I managed to grab this year. Preparations started about today... |
Monday Oct 9 |
| Orienteering race 1:09:43 [3] *** 7.9 km (8:49 / km) | |
| spiked:17/24c |
| The wine-o of the GLOF, performed as a one-man relay. I boomed myself out of the game on the first loop. I was simply running too fast. As I was alone on the seond loop I probably made some good advance. On the final loop I got distracted by the other runners again, and llost some unnecessary time and places. I should just have sticked to doing my own race but...
The race was great fun, the terrain was nice and I'm actually happy not to have understood today was a holiday. I was really suprised to see that I could, for the brief moment, keep up with the best runners while in the forest. I shouldn't be a particularly good runner in terrain and - in fact - I'm not.
I avarded myself with a nice hot bath and a seldom so well deserved glass of cold and excellent wine. Fantastic! |
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Sunday Oct 8 |
| Orienteering 1:16:10 [3] *** 8.4 km (9:04 / km) | |
| spiked:12/14c |
| Now, putting yesterday's disaster behind me I managed today to do what I should. Almost. I lost several minutes on the small paths in the end. overall ok, though. |
Saturday Oct 7 |
| Orienteering race 47:00 [3] *** 3.9 km (12:03 / km) | |
| spiked:9/13c |
| NAOC Middle distance - my first touch with overseas orienteering. I totally blew it on the second control... Otherwise I made a decednt run given the circumstances. I guess this was the wrong day to try without a compass. The terrain was difficult with not too many details and reduced visibility. It would have been good to have visited the training area.
All in all the competition was a positive experience with the nice settings, winderful competiton area and all the happy people. |
Friday Oct 6 |
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| Event: 2006 North American Championships (Golden Leaf Orienteering Fest)
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Thursday Oct 5 |
| Running (road) 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| Another run in the dark around the sights. More fellow runers than policemen, though. |
Wednesday Oct 4 |
| Running (road) 1:00:00 [3] | |
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| I found a good site, made by some Nadim Ahmed, recommending running loops in Washington DC. Did an extended Georgetown loop before heading down to the Bank. |