Training Log Archive: robw

An easy jog around stadskogen and a few other small paths including past the highland cattle and their new calf, cracker evening but feeling pretty fragile after the last few days.

6th leg, got up at 00.20, had some breaky and got out to the race about 2.30am. We were in 7th after the long night so it was looking good but we lost 10-15min on the short 4th and 5th legs which put us back to 24th. (Marius Mazulis who ran in our 2nd team at his request (no power) won the 4th leg - would have been handy in the 1st team). Anyway i had a good race, missed 20 sec on the tricky 1st control but then got the next two well and caught a group of 3 (Dan Marston, Jorgen Rostrup and Vladimir Lucan) we ran together for a while, missed 30sec in the circle on a couple of controls but i got the super tricky ones before the ski slope well so it was just Lucan and me for the next bit which was a bit easier orienteering, he got ahead a bit here but must have missed one of the tricky last few cos i never saw him after the 4th last. Came in 18th so we must have passed a few other teams without seeing them. I was pretty happy with my run and Erik Rost ran great on the last leg to pull us up to 14th just behind TDH who did a good job without a compass on tha last bit.
You can see the maps and courses here...
http://www.ranasok.se/redaktion/redaktion4.asp?ART...

C • Sweet! 10

Warming up mainly and a token warm down. Had real bad guts afterwards.

Event: Jukola 2007
 

An easy jog on the trainng map next to the Jukola area. I struggled a bit to understand the map, very flat vague features and quite bushy in places, not a great confidence booster. had a bit of a look around the Jukola competition centre and a chat with Peter Ivars, ate some warmed up tinned spag bol for lunch that cost €7 then drove back to the hotel for a sleep.

Drove up to Vaasa after we got off the boat in the morning, we stayed at a health resort Hotel at a place called Norvalla about 50k from Jukola. One of the training maps was right here so we ran the course before dinner. Flatish vague slope terrain with quite good visibility but tough running with really deep blueberries and a bit stony as well, ran at a solid pace and good technically.

Running out to the start of the training and then back to the hotel.

Ate some dodgy salami yesterday and havent been feeling so good today - took the boat to Finland in the evening with Malung, Jimmy B didnt turn up since he has been sick all week, bit of a blow to the team.

4 short orienteering intervals with a lot of short legs in Nåsten on the most open but technical part with lots of small bare rock knolls.
3.40 (1.40) 6.40 (1.30) 6.43 (1.34) 6.14
Did em without the pseudoephedrine - (dont want to blunt the effect before Jukola) plus i wanted to see how it was after the rain yesterday. Felt quite ok anyway, really pushed hard and the orienteering was good, 2 small mistakes but otherwise very good esp at beginning to concentrate again after the short breaks.

Running out to Rödmossen and back on the small paths plus between the intervals. Took the bike to the edge of the forest to keep the training a bit shorter.

C • Pass snowed in? 3

5 x 3min @ 3.06m/k with 2min recovery @ 5m/k on the treadmill. Not a super hard session but this was a bit of a test for Jukola - if i couldnt do this then i wasnt going to run in the 1st team. Anyway i took a pseudoephedrine tab plus the asthma and nasonex spray before and it was gold - being indoors prob helped too. I felt so much better it was amazing, bloody pseudoephedrine comes to the rescue again! Felt quite good running and had no probs getting through this. Managed to kill 2 treadmills during the process of this session as well. What a relief to feel nearly normal again - hope it continues through the week.

C • yay 8

Warming up and down plus between the intervals.