Training Archive: JaggeIn the 31 days ending 2007-07-31:
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Monday Jul 30 | ||
| Note | |
| I did 3 beginneer style compass mistakes last weekend. I guess I need to find a manual to refresh my memory how the compass actually works. It may be the red end of the arrow does not point to the Greenwich after all. Maybe it was Mecca - that might explain my 90 degree errors.
I also may need a new compass. And new brains. And lugns of course. Getting new legs wouldn't be a bad idea either. But I think my current belly is big and strong enough. | ||
| Running 40:00 [1] | |
Sunday Jul 29 | ||
| Orienteering 1:11:00 [4] | |
| Yet an other similar sad day of slow trekking:
http://ls37.domain-paketti.com/gadget/cgi-bin/reit... | ||
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [1] | |
Saturday Jul 28 | ||
| Orienteering 50:00 [4] | |
| Usual fight against asthma symptoms:
http://ls37.domain-paketti.com/gadget/cgi-bin/reit... | ||
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [1] | |
Thursday Jul 26 | ||
| Note | |
| http://www.woc2007.org.ua/en/news/view/44
Final decision on timekeeping / 26.07.2007 As written in the bulletin 3 the organizers of WOC 2007 made an application to the IOF for a deviation to the rule 23.8 concerning the accuracy of the timekeeping for the sprint final. The rule states that the time of the sprint final should be given in minutes, seconds and down to 1/10 of a second. - The organizer applied for a deviation to the rule and this week the final decision was made by IOF council. They decided to turn down the application and thus the timing of the sprint final at WOC 2007 will be in the accuracy of 1/10 of a second, says the Senior event adviser Øivind Holt. The rule 23.8 applies only to the sprint final, and all other races will using one second timing accuracy. | ||
| C • ? 4 | ||
Wednesday Jul 25 | ||
| Running 45:07 [2] 10 km (4:31 / km) | |
| Tried to run 10 km with steady 4:30 min/km by used forerunner toy for pacing. | ||
| Running 17:00 [1] | |
| After 10km session. | ||
Tuesday Jul 24 | ||
| Orienteering 47:00 [4] | |
| Kalajärvi, local training event. And as I was afraid, my asthma is back and as strong as ever :( | ||
Sunday Jul 22 | ||
| Running 35:00 [1] | |
| Easy run with Minna. | ||
Saturday Jul 21 | ||
| Other (hiking) 1:10:00 [1] | |
| Walking in Nuuksio national park. I thought I should not try jogging yet. | ||
| Tupplur intervals 45:00 [0] | |
| Tupplur intervals. I tried to push hard to make last ones thick enough. I guess I did it well, I was pretty tired after the session. | ||
Friday Jul 20 | ||
| Note | |
| (sick) | ||
| Full week now, but finally getting better. I hope I'll be able to try jogging next sunday, tomorrow is too soon.
Sick two weeks before 43-kavlen, just like before Tiomila. If I will get sick again just before 25-manna, I will not plan to compete in Sweden ever again. Grrr.... | ||
| C • The logic seems somehow flawed there.... 2 | ||
Monday Jul 16 | ||
| Note | |
| (sick) | ||
| Still sick, couldn't go to work. This was a scifi day - tried to read a soviet scifi novel and a quite amusing old movie Star Wars - Emipire Strikes Back.
I didn't participate WMOC, lucky me, I wuold have been sick anyway. And I was not needed there this time either to represent our family - my farther was 4th in H70 (he made a huge mistake to #1, damn) and my sister's husband (whats that called?) was 20th in H35. Our little O mafia is doing just fine without me, as usual. | ||
| C • Brother-in-law 5 | ||
Sunday Jul 15 | ||
| Note | |
| (sick) | ||
| .. and now I fever & cold symptoms. great... | ||
Saturday Jul 14 | ||
| Note | |
| (sick) | ||
| Sore throat, no fever. | ||
Friday Jul 13 | ||
| Note | |
| (sick) | ||
Thursday Jul 12 | ||
| Note | |
| My 5 days maps without routes are here:
http://www.routegadget.net/gpsoblog/cgi-bin/reitti... I'll post my gps tracks later. EDIT: Added GPS for day 1 and 2. First half of day 2 is one of the toughest courses I have ever run. Also making route choice for the long leg was something far over my experience. Would have been fun race without those blisters. | ||
| Orienteering 58:00 [1] | |
| DVOA Jukola training course, picked up streamers. First control was missing but the rest of them were still threre, some of them had dropped to the ground.
I logged this as O, but I ran withot map&compass. Minna navigated, I just followed an picked streamers. Nice weather. | ||
| C • Without map or compass... 2 | ||
Wednesday Jul 11 | ||
| Running warm up/down 25:00 [1] | |
| Running 22:27 [4] 5900 km ( / km) | |
| The usual 6 km test run:
http://www.routegadget.net/run/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?...= Before trip to Italy I ran it 20 sec faster. I ran well first half, but I couldn't keep the pace. I guess I am not fully recovered yet. | ||
Tuesday Jul 10 | ||
| Note | |
| I wrote some time ago about a spreading method idea for long individual races with start interval.
Some people at our O federation has taken it more seriously than I expected. A federation work group had discussed about it in an official meeting before Jukola, they considered it promising enough for some field tests. They are planning to try it in an training event somewhere with non elite runners and possibly try it as training with some sort of elite group also. Quite funny. Who knows, I may end up running these loops one day. | ||
| Running 45:00 [1] | |
Sunday Jul 8 | ||
| Event: WMOC 2007 | ||
| Note | |
| We ate one cheese and one sausage and tried to bring the rest all the way to Finland, barely managed to put it all in out bags. Food were in a pretty warm during the all day train & fly trip to Helsinki, so I guess I'll get food poisoning soon. But I hope drinking a lot of grappa will help.
Home at Monday 3:15 AM. | ||
| C • Mmmmm 2 | ||
Saturday Jul 7 | ||
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [1] | |
| Orienteering race 55:00 [4] | |
| 5th day of the '5 days of the Fortresses'.
5.5 km with chase start. I continued with my successful 2 compeed tactics. I started 5th, 3 min behind fourth and about 15 min ahead of 6th. I felt very tried from the beginning and made some 15-20 sec mistakes at couple of first controls. I soon realised I will never catch anybody and nobody will catch me, so I ended up just trying to survive the course all the way to finish. This trekking attitude affected my navigation and I made one big and stupid mistake. But I wasn't brain dead enough to boom 15 minutes, I am too lazy to for that, so I ended up 5th. 4th guy, Jonas Pärsson from Sweden, ran quite well like he did every day expect day 4, so I really never had any chance against him. There was 5 prizes, I hot ham, cheese, candy and cookies. Minna was second in D21AK and she won days 2 and 4. She got every time ham, cheese, bad smelling but good tasting sausages, cookies, candy, pasta, wine, grappa etc. | ||
Friday Jul 6 | ||
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [1] | |
| Orienteering race 1:18:00 [4] | |
| 4th day of the '5 days of the Fortresses'.
10 km, 400m climb. I changed by heel tactics from one compeed + tape to two compeed + no tape + other shoes. It worked well, no pain at all during the race. I felt more recovered and stronger than the day before. I made one stupid a bit over one min mistake and missed a path here and there but overall it went well, at least compared to miserable previous day. I was 3th, 1.5 minutes behind the winner. With perfect run I could have win this day. | ||
Thursday Jul 5 | ||
| Running warm up/down 10:00 [3] | |
| Orienteering warm up/down 1:32:00 [4] | |
| 3rd day of the '5 days of the Fortresses', 9.2 km.
I but again one compeed on my blisters plus some extra tape over it to make it stay in right place. This tactics failed miserably, tapes and compeed got loose on my way to 1st control and I had constant pain in my heel. I also didn't feel recovered either and even made my biggest O mistake on my way to 10th - course crossed there and I started reading wrong leg and navigated almost all the way to 14th, about 1 km extra running climbed huge hill for nothing - with my blisters hurting all the time. The only reason I continued was the fact this was a 5 day event and I liked to get a result. But wasn't much motivated as you might guess. Miserable day. But terrain was nice, sort of continental terrain type I guess. | ||
Wednesday Jul 4 | ||
| Note | |
| (rest day) | ||
| Bus trip to Venice. Few hours of walk there with a street map. I had to use my thumb on map like I do while I race to get lost and to avoid having to stop in every corner to figure out where we should go. Hot day, got some thunder and rain on our way back to our bus.
One single Compeed covering both blisters, it worked well. | ||
| C • Logging 3 | ||
Tuesday Jul 3 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:29:00 [4] | |
| 2nd day of the '5 days of the Fortresses'.
9.4 km, climb 480. I am not sure how they measure the climb, it felt like a lot more. But I guess it was right. I made my biggest mistake of the week. I forgot to put tape on my left heel. after thirty minutes I had two big blister in my left heel and last 30 minutes was quite painful, especially in uphills. I did one 2 min mistake, lost my focus on uphill, I paid too much attention on how to climb the hill without unnecessary pain. Fool me. Anyway, I was 4th about 7 min behind winner, a Norwegian fitness wonder who should have run in 21 elite class. First day he had a lot better km pace then elite winner. But for some reason he run in H35 with us and made the rest of us feel like a group of non fit, over weighted coach potatoes. But there is nothing wrong with it, that's what we are. There two first races were held in Forte Cherle. Very cool area for O. This was my first ever visit in this kind of terrain. I have run in Hungary 15 years ago, but it wasn't much like this at all. But I think I did pretty well here for a novice, I just should have used some tape. | ||
| Running warm up/down 5:00 [1] | |
| Tough race day, didn't want to use too much energy for warming up. And with those blisters could not do any warm down. | ||
| Note | |
| After prize giving ceremony performed Italian pop/rock star Stefano Zarfati with his band for about an hour. Not a bad show and songs at all. Anyway, Stefano ran around the stage and jumped just like a respectable rock star should. My legs were pretty dead, cramped if I tried to bend them too much. And blisters hurt. I would never been able to jump like Stefano, my only excuse was he didn't have to run this ultra hard race I had to run. but i got it all wrong. I was soon told Stefano actually is a keen orienteer and he was racing in H35 against me and he did run the very same course as me!
Also, Stefano had done a Orienteering song - "Running" - and he playd it there live. It was and is also available as CD, and profits gos to Italian O federation. I had to buy one, not because I wanted to support Italian O but because the song is so cool. Here is Stefano Zarfati Live at 5 days: Running between trees, cool. This is Italian version, there is English version too, but this Italian sounds much better of course. | ||
Monday Jul 2 | ||
| Event: Trento 5-Day | ||
| Running warm up/down 20:00 [1] | |
| Orienteering race 48:00 [4] | |
| 1st day of the '5 days of the Fortresses'.
6.6 km. I had solid run without much mistakes, but running felt slow. I wonder can this low altitude (~1500 m) affect me. It felt a lot like this when I raced at the same altitude few years ago in Madeira. I was third, not bat result at all. On AP I have read a lot about contouring. It's a skill or method people use when they run on there mountain terrains. We don't have any mountains in southern Finland, so that's a skill I don't know much about. I knew I will have to run on long slopes here, so used dictionary to find out what contouring in Italy is all about. Italian "Con" means with/together, like chili con carne, so it must be touring with someone, a lot like following. Anyway, I got some tricky slope legs but I could not contour because there wasn't nobody to do do it with. So I had to simply follow those brown lines to avoid unnecessary climb. It would be fun to learn how to contour one day. RG & gps later. | ||
Sunday Jul 1 | ||
| Note | |
| Folgaria | ||
| Running 1:15:00 [1] | |
| We planned to do 45 min run, but we kind of lost our way, had to climb some extra hills. I walked last 5 min, I had pain in my knee - long walk in Milan was something my legs were not used to. Hard races are coming and my knee already hurts...
Find the event office though. | ||