Training Log Archive: Rosstopher

Swedish sprint champs. Final.

The day began with an early morning drive back up to Gävle. I was the first starter in the B-final, and although there was some light rain, the legs were feeling fresh so I was hoping for a good result.

I was quick off the line, and as I headed to the start triangle I quickly decided my route to the first control - right along the road from the start - and so I headed out aggressively... and promptly missed the turn I needed to take and went way off the map. Legs were feeling fine, and the brain wasn't worrying until I had gone a pretty long way. It was hard to make my way back to the map and the control area, but once I finally got to number 1, I was able to settle in and race the rest of the course well. Not quite two minutes lost there.

Bit too far left on 6, and took an unnecessary staircase on the way to 7, and in retrospect could have chosen a slightly better route to 10 as well.

17:30 which put me at 29 out of the 30 in my heat and also behind several of the faster times in the C-final which was run on the same course.

On the whole, very pleased with the weekend. A good baseline for the start of a new season of orienteering and also just a lot of fun being with the club and being part of the action.

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Map in a strange format, my heat was H21B Final

C • Nice going! 5

Swedish Sprint Championships. Qualifier.

This weekend marked 7 weeks since my second elbow surgery and was also the weekend of the Swedish Sprint Champs. My arm recovery has been going very well and I felt that the risk of falling during an urban sprint was acceptably low, so I looked forward to joining the races.

I was the first starter in the C-heat and I enjoyed chatting with one of the other early starters on the 45 minute call-up jog from the pre-start to the start.

The terrain was mostly open parkland and the finish was in a stadium, and this made for some very quick running. I felt in control the entire way almost on the verge of holding back a bit physically, but that seemed to be the speed I could manage. I executed my routes well, with perhaps one small hesitation costing me a few seconds, but otherwise had a clean run.

The performance was enough to get me 22nd place in my heat and into the B-final for tomorrow. (Top 12 to A final, next 10 to B-final).

Back was slightly sore from playing Innebandy yesterday. Glad that it didn't slow me down at all, but I must remember that the first time playing Innebandy for a season will leave me achy.

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