Training Log Archive: djsanton97In the 31 days ending Aug 31, 2018:
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Friday Aug 31, 2018 #
orienteering 31:45 [2] 4.74 km (6:42 / km) +130m 5:53 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
A lot of high blueberry bushes that makes running hard(for me atleast). Very nice landscapes from all the hill tops tho! Tomorrow is GO-time!!
PS: the castle in Halden looks super nice!!
Thursday Aug 30, 2018 #
running 30:22 [2] 6.56 km (4:38 / km) +87m 4:20 / km
shoes: Adidas Adizero Adios Orange
Wednesday Aug 29, 2018 #
running warm up/down 9:35 [2] 2.0 km (4:48 / km)
shoes: Adidas Adizero Adios Orange
orienteering intervals 24:04 [4] 6.1 km (3:57 / km) +45m 3:48 / km
shoes: Adidas Adizero Adios Orange
1. 5:15min, 1.38km
2. 3:16min, 0.79km
3. 3:07min, 0.84km
4. 3:16min, 0,83km
5. 4:35min, 1.25km
6. 3:35min, 0.99km
Had a lot of fun and the weather was super nice!!
running warm up/down 9:54 [2] 2.24 km (4:25 / km) +9m 4:20 / km
shoes: Adidas Adizero Adios Orange
Tuesday Aug 28, 2018 #
running 44:33 [3] 10.51 km (4:14 / km) +148m 3:58 / km
shoes: Adidas Adizero Adios Orange
running warm up/down 6:33 [2] 1.32 km (4:58 / km) +30m 4:27 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
orienteering 46:28 [3] *** 7.28 km (6:23 / km) +168m 5:43 / km
10c shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
running warm up/down 9:59 [2] 2.04 km (4:54 / km) +9m 4:47 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
Monday Aug 27, 2018 #
Note
Sunday Aug 26, 2018 #
running warm up/down 13:05 [2] 2.89 km (4:32 / km) +7m 4:28 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
orienteering race 1:59:40 [5] *** 19.4 km (6:10 / km) +654m 5:17 / km
22c shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
From the start some challenging route choices and a lot of climbing. My legs felt so exhausted only after a few hills and I knew this was gonna be a long day. After yesterday, I decided that 20mins behind the lead is good for me(if I don't make mistakes) because I wasn't expecting the spot in the final. Made a mistake on #4, was looking for the control too low and the forest was too dense so I didn't see the hill where the control was. Coming to #8(the long leg) I was looking at the options, either pretty straight or way way around(leg 3,5k, around 5,5k). I was really trying to figure this out and finally ended up going around. Lost 4:30min to the lead but that was the best option for me, I would have been much slower going straight. After the that, I got to the butterfly loop and had already read most of it in advance. Sadly, going from #12 to #13 I lost my way a bit to the right. Luckily, I noticed that pretty soon and got back on track. After that it was just a fight until that last uphill going to #21. Thinking to myself, I said that when I'm up that hill, the race is done for me. From there it was just rolling down to the last control. And I still had some energy left cause I was the fastest Men Elite on the finish chute ;)
What a race, SO EXHAUSTED! Now time to rest well!!
GPS:
http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/2018smpH21/
running warm up/down 10:02 [2] 1.69 km (5:56 / km) +3m 5:53 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
Saturday Aug 25, 2018 #
running warm up/down 8:23 [2] 1.78 km (4:43 / km) +12m 4:33 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
orienteering race 1:04:27 [5] 9.96 km (6:28 / km) +335m 5:32 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
I felt really heavy jogging to the start but I still wanted to fight for a spot in the final. First 30min were a total disaster physically, I had no energy to run, none at all. Walked all the hills and was so slow(atleast I thought so). Going into the last long leg, I found my pace and I started pushing more. After that leg, we had 3 short, very technical legs before the finish shoot. I kept my focus and found them on the flow. I still kept pushing all the way to the finish and was so tired and trashed I thought I didn't make it... After my cool down, not only to my surprise, I learned that I made the A-final. THE A-FINAL!!!!
(PS: Take that whoever said no before the quali.)
running warm up/down 10:15 [2] 2.13 km (4:49 / km) +17m 4:38 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
Friday Aug 24, 2018 #
running 14:57 [2] 3.16 km (4:44 / km) +9m 4:40 / km
shoes: Adidas Adizero Adios Orange
Thursday Aug 23, 2018 #
running 27:55 [2] 6.22 km (4:29 / km) +82m 4:13 / km
shoes: Adidas Adizero Adios Orange
Wednesday Aug 22, 2018 #
Note
(rest day)
Tuesday Aug 21, 2018 #
orienteering race 14:12 [5] 3.25 km (4:22 / km) +36m 4:08 / km
shoes: Adizero Takumi Sen
Didn't have that last bit of motivation for this one but I was ready to go out there and enjoy. I didn't really agree with the mapper tho... First 5 controls were so badly marked on the map(control circles and leg lines cut in too many places and the color was too lightly printed, not IOF standard color) that I was not able to ready it properly but I still enjoyed it. Carcross center looked really nice and this wasn't your typical sprint as most of it was in the sandy woods or on gravel roads.
running warm up/down 5:15 [1] 1.05 km (5:00 / km)
shoes: Adizero Takumi Sen
orienteering 25:18 [4] 4.29 km (5:54 / km) +96m 5:18 / km
shoes: Adizero Takumi Sen
This was fun! Sadly I had my thumb on one of the controls and had to go back to that one, the lead guys coming towards me on that leg, sadly.. But So much fun!!
Monday Aug 20, 2018 #
running warm up/down 12:17 [2] 2.26 km (5:26 / km) +9m 5:20 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
orienteering race 42:40 [5] 7.54 km (5:40 / km) +197m 5:00 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
First leg fun time! This time it actually felt like fun, not like in Latvia at WOC... Emma started at the same time and v fast she started! So once we got to the forest I had to speed up a little(lol). The guys were following me just behind until #3 but going to #4 I sprinted a bit on the trails to see if I could shake off the others. Only Adam Woods(or Eric kemp, can't remember which one) kept up with me. Getting around #4, he went too high up on the right and I picked up the flag easily on my left. After that I was on my own all the way until change-over. Going through the spectator loop, I gave a bit of push to my speed to give more of a lead for my team mates. And it turned out pretty well for us ;)
running warm up/down 6:09 [1] 1.04 km (5:55 / km)
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
Note
Sunday Aug 19, 2018 #
running warm up/down 12:55 [2] 2.8 km (4:37 / km) +10m 4:32 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
orienteering race 37:18 [5] 5.35 km (6:58 / km) +253m 5:38 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
Today I wanted to do a solid performance with NO mistakes and so I did, as easy as that(NOT). Start: flipped my map and couldn't find #1, oh right, it was right next to the start point on the map, haha. Focused from early on, I kept my speed to a minimum and my focus high. Every time I thought about running harder, I urged myself to look at the map again and again. Through the whole course, oddly with the slow speed, I found a very good flow and that kept me going. Only a small hesitation to #10 and #12. After crossing the railway on my way to #16, I caught up to Michael Svoboda and he helped me run a bit faster at the end plus we had a good sprint battle on the finish shoot. Fun race and a very stunning view by the lake at the arena!
Saturday Aug 18, 2018 #
running warm up/down 14:02 [2] 2.43 km (5:47 / km) +24m 5:30 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
orienteering race 1:37:40 [5] 15.38 km (6:21 / km) +348m 5:42 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
Wanted to start easy to get into my orienteering and make sure my legs were ready after all the travelling. Felt fine through the long leg and the short ones after it, keeping my navigation on point. Going to #8 I started getting tired and losing my focus to the race. After finding the control on my way to #9 I had a longer chat with a bigger creature...
I MET A BEAR, ugh.... It was sitting less than 10m away from me, eating berries. It noticed me so I stopped, as I was taught on the previous day, and started talking to the bear. It lifted its head to smell the air so it was clearly just curious. I started slowly walking away from it while keeping the chat up. The bear STARTED FOLLOWING ME!!! Oh god, I thought to myself. I kept slowly walking away and talking to it while it kept slowly walking with me, still curiously smelling the air and "enjoying" the walk. After a few hundred meters it finally stopped so I did too. After a few stares back and forth, the very kind bear started running away, luckily.
At this point, I had no idea where I had ended up backing away from the bear. I tried to understand where I was but no clue. Fortunately, Damian, who started 3 min after me, caught up and I admit to following him to #9. After a few small hesitation to #10 and #11, I got my directions right. I kept a good speed running with Damian and actually lost him on #12 when he did a mistake and I found the control.
Once again, the last 2k proved that I'm still not ready for a long distance. After the spectator control I lost my way sooo so badly... took 10mins on #17, that tells you all you need to know... So tired at the finish but mayde it all the way. Next up Middle!
Friday Aug 17, 2018 #
orienteering 20:05 [2] 3.45 km (5:49 / km) +75m 5:15 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
Thursday Aug 16, 2018 #
hiking 1:39:43 [1] 6.23 km (16:00 / km)
running 27:02 [2] 5.71 km (4:44 / km) +10m 4:42 / km
shoes: Adizero Takumi Sen
Wednesday Aug 15, 2018 #
running hills 45:15 [3] 9.78 km (4:38 / km) +219m 4:10 / km
shoes: Adizero Takumi Sen
Tuesday Aug 14, 2018 #
biking (MTB) 1:34:00 [0] 21.26 km (13.6 kph) +141m
Monday Aug 13, 2018 #
running 41:55 [3] 9.57 km (4:23 / km) +33m 4:18 / km
shoes: Adizero Takumi Sen
Sunday Aug 12, 2018 #
running warm up/down 16:21 [2] 3.34 km (4:54 / km)
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
orienteering race 49:30 [4] 8.87 km (5:35 / km) +153m 5:08 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
Saturday Aug 11, 2018 #
running 50:38 [2] 10.21 km (4:58 / km) +64m 4:49 / km
shoes: Adidas Adizero Adios Orange
I was talked into running the Helsinki area relay champs first leg tomorrow, I'm gonna take it very easy and just make no mistakes, try to get a solid performance in before NAOC.
Friday Aug 10, 2018 #
Note
(rest day)
Thursday Aug 9, 2018 #
running warm up/down 21:42 [2]
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
orienteering race 50:19 [5] 7.17 km (7:01 / km) +285m 5:51 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
Note
Relay, first leg: mentally and physically probably the hardest type of orienteering there is. Especially if it is organised in a Latvian, mostly green and hilly, terrain with a course of 5.7k and 305m of climb.
Before the race I was feeling very good, confident of being well rested and revocered, ready to run with the lead pack all the way to the change-over. I set myself only one goal for this race: be the one without mistakes and that way be the one to come out first(or atleast lead pack). I was ready to challenge the best orienteers of the world.
30seconds... 10seconds.... GO! I started on the right side of the start shoot, reading the first and second leg right away thinking to myself 'what kind of sprint is this, looks too easy'. When I knew my route to my first controls, I lifted my head up to realize that I was in the lead to the start point. I was totally surprised because I wasn't even running that fast. Punched my first control second, just after Sweden's Jonas Leandersson. Still amazed of the slow speed we were running at, I wanted to make sure I'll be able to run the whole leg so I let the pack go in front. I punched 2, 3 and 4 at the end of the lead pack, still feeling really good and seeing the lead.
Running to my #5, I saw the closest back 40meters ahead turning to the forest. I knew I gotta nail this one to stay with the pack for the spectator control. I think I had some kind of black out here cause all I remember is taking the baring to the forest, towards #5, but the next thing I remember is being in the middle of that green, everybody disappeared somewhere and no idea of where I was. I kept going a bit and soon realised being way too far, next to that small open area south from my #5. Back to the control and towards the next ones.
3min behind the lead at the spectator loop, sounded really bad when I first heard it but I was betting on a very technical part after that. As it turned out, before the race I got the info from the ladies relay that after the spectator's loop the lead had done a lot of mistakes. And that was the case in the Men's relay too.
Sadly though, I hit a total wall after the spectator's loop. I could still run the trail halfway through the leg to #8, but after that it was mostly walking. I still found the control and kept going but then I also hit the mental wall at #9. A very bad set back, almost giving up already... Luckily the Irish team's first leg runner helped me to find that one. From here on it was just a struggle against all the hills on legs 9-13. But I wanted to give my teammates a chance to run their legs too so I kept going even if it felt really really bad.
Leaving #13, I wanted to find the easiest way. The road option on the left, I saw it and that was what I wanted. Getting to the road turned up to be much harder than I thought as I couldn't control my legs in the downhill from #13 past #9. Once I ran over the field to the road, I saw the Chinese guy. I thought to myself that I needed to stay with him if I wanted to survive until the finish. Next thing I know, I'm climbing the hill up to #14, no clue of how I got there or where the Chinese guy was now. I felt my blood sugar going really down, even just standing on that hillside felt really bad, almost dizzy-kind-of. Finally climbing the last meters of that 65meter climb to #14, I had to take my shirt off, it was SO hot. It felt a bit better but not much of help. The good thing was that there wasn't too much climb or harder running surface left before the finish. Last push to get through #15, #16 and #17. Over the finish line and map to Greg, I was DONE.
I remember hearing "we are taking your gps off", "here is water" and "you should move to the grass so nobody runs over you". The rest is just one empty black space in my head. Apart from those phrases, I have no idea what happened between collapsing at the map board and realizing I'm on my way to the ambulance. Two organisers helped me walk towards the ambulance when I kinda gain consciousness and from there on was able to walk by myself to the ambulance. They mesured my blood pressure(which was really low as I suspected) and heart rate. After a bit of rest I gained more energy and my heart started beating more steadily. All good after all.
Now, I guess it was the heat that got me, very badly this time. Anyways, I have a long way to being the best first leg runner in the world so once I get back on my feet, thats where I'm gonna start from.
GPS: http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/2018wocRelayM1/?v=m...
Wednesday Aug 8, 2018 #
orienteering 27:42 [2] 4.12 km (6:43 / km)
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
Tuesday Aug 7, 2018 #
running 5:06 [2] 0.95 km (5:22 / km) +12m 5:03 / km
shoes: Adizero Takumi Sen
running warm up/down 18:02 [2]
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
orienteering race 43:14 [5] 6.92 km (6:15 / km) +214m 5:25 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
Forest WOC debut behind and I'm feeling very happy for keeping it together pretty well. Now all focus to the first leg of the relay, only gold is enough...
GPS: https://www-tulospalvelu.liveorienteering.com/gps/...
running warm up/down 6:14 [2] 1.05 km (5:56 / km)
shoes: Adidas Boston 6 Aktiv
Monday Aug 6, 2018 #
orienteering 25:23 [2] 3.48 km (7:18 / km) +75m 6:35 / km
shoes: Adidas Terrex Agravic 355
Sunday Aug 5, 2018 #
orienteering 1:04:00 [3] 7.01 km (9:08 / km) +267m 7:40 / km
shoes: Adizero Takumi Sen
Saturday Aug 4, 2018 #
running warm up/down 18:47 [2]
shoes: Adizero Takumi Sen
orienteering race 13:01 [5] 4.09 km (3:11 / km)
shoes: Adizero Takumi Sen
WOC debut done!!!
running warm up/down 12:00 [2]
shoes: Adizero Takumi Sen
Friday Aug 3, 2018 #
orienteering 15:02 [2] 2.98 km (5:03 / km)
shoes: Adizero Takumi Sen
(PS: It starts at home)
Wednesday Aug 1, 2018 #
running warm up/down 14:51 [2] 3.12 km (4:46 / km)
shoes: Adidas Adizero Adios Orange
running intervals 30:00 [4] 1.1 km (27:16 / km)
shoes: Adidas middle distance spikes
I joined Topi Raitanen for a few of those 200s as he was preparing for track European champs. It felt really fast and refreshing!
running warm up/down 10:12 [1] 1.87 km (5:27 / km)
shoes: Adizero Takumi Sen