Sunday Feb 25 |
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| C • Cool 3 |
| Running warm up/down 40:00 [1] | |
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| Running 24:00 [4] 6 km (4:00 / km) | |
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| Bike (indoor) 20:00 [2] | |
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| Strength 10:00 [2] | |
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| Tejas, ZZ Top, 1976 |
Saturday Feb 24 |
| Skiing (skate) 2:40:00 [1] 32 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| Unusual tiny tracks and some foot trails to get some ski-o style skating training. Just in case I'll race this winter. |
| Running 31:00 [1] | |
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| Evening. |
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The map of the day.
Finnish champs qual race few years ago, not far from Tampere (go a bit east). If I camn remember right I was about 4-5 min behind the winner. I didng get to the final, I should have been ~45 sec faster. I guess I lost that on #1 and #2.
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Friday Feb 23 |
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Today's map has some robust hills. A little bit east from Mikkeli.
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10-mila preparation continues. Today it was köttbullar med mos och lingonsylt. |
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| C • Busy week... 2 |
Thursday Feb 22 |
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Today's map
Yet an other easy one. This is about 45 min drive west from where I live. One of my favourite spring training maps. It's near to the sea, usually snow melts early there.
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| C • Snow melting? 1 |
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| Rastivarsat Easter training camp, Latvia & Estonia! There is some free places left! http://www.rastivarsat.fi/web.cgi?sivu=167
Bus trip from Finland, lots of nice maps and trainigs, good company. Ask, if you like to know more. |
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Wednesday Feb 21 |
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Map seach continues.
Here is today's map
Let's make this easy this time. This is not far from 2001 WOC. The railroad should make this easy.
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| C • Yes, that was easier... 1 |
| Bike (indoor) 30:00 [2] | |
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| Strength 10:00 [2] | |
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| Hell's ditch, Pogues, 1990
Album name would make a good map name.In Norway there is a town called Hell near Trondheim. There is even railway station, Hell's station.
In one of the songs Shane sings with his "clear" voice
"I tried to take a late night piss
But the toiled moved so again I missed"
It made me think of the boat trip to 10-mila, big ship zig-zagging in the middle of the archipelago. Maybe going there isn't bad idea after all?
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| I have started 10mila preparation with a special diet designed for night orienteering.
Last night I had a glass or two Australian red wine (Moondarra). The grapes were picked at night time to get the wine well balanced for night orienteering. But I am not sure if I drank enough, I didn't get any 'darra' (Finnish slang word for hangover)
Next week I'll go to the local Ikea and have some Swedish meat balls!
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Tuesday Feb 20 |
| Bike (indoor) 15:00 [2] | |
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| Strength 5:00 [2] | |
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| I heard yesterday our club will try to get team to 10-mila. Our MTB stars like MTB-WOC winner Mika Tervala will not be availabe, they need to ride world cup elsewhere. This means all male runners in our club who (1) still can remember in which had they used to keep compass when they were young an used to go O races, (2) are reasonably sane, (3) are not too much afraid of darkness or (4)too bored of getting DSQ by SI malfunction or afraid of (5) sailing by boat over the sea and are (6) fit enough to walk couple of hours in forest, must prepare themselvesfor travelling to 10 mila. I am not a top athlete like that, but I have already right 3 out of 6 (1,3 and 5). I'll be working on the 3 missing items and I hope I'll be ready and in out team before the take off.
And we will have strong team again, ten young and sturdy middle aged man like me. We'll aim for top 50 but we will be placed 91. |
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| C • 10-mila 3 |
| Running warm up/down 48:00 [1] | |
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| Running race 12:00 [5] 3.42 km (3:31 / km) vdot: 56.2 | |
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| 12 min test run (Cooper), Liikuntamylly indoor track.
3420 m. (PB = 3730)
My target speed was 3:20 /km (3600m). But it didn't go well. I started all too fast (first two/three laps ~3800 speed), could keep the speed only 6 minutes. There was a lot of runners on track jogging slowly (not any wonder, -19C outside), I had to zig zag quite a bit, it didn't help... my last minutes was very very slow.
Anyway, it was the first track run for years. It should be easy to improve from here. |
Monday Feb 19 |
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Yesterdays map is still to be found, I don't care, here is new one: Map
This is a H21E course from a FIN5 week some yars ago.
This was my best day, simply because it was the shortes course. Rest of the courses were all too long for me and my lugns. If I remember right I was about 10-20th and about 2 -5 min behind winner (Kenkku Cederberg?).
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