Training Archive: JaggeIn the 7 days ending 2007-07-08:
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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. | ||