Training Log Archive: Rosstopher

It was Sam's week for course design and, because of the moose hunting, she was assigned the map south of the city close to the lake.

In efforts to make it a day training, we all met up at 4:15 and got as quick a start as possible. I was feeling quite enthusiastic and so I was pushing quite hard for the course.

I was a little confused on 3, and stopped short on 5, at which point Annika caught up to me and then it turned into more of head to head race for me. I think I'm just a tad faster than her, but she's pretty crafty.

I think I am responsible for having us cut off the trail a bit too early on the way to 7, and that meant that we both lost some time and it also meant that I got a bit of a lead for a moment, however, she caught back up on 11, and we were racing again for 12-15. This was where I got a contour too high and missed the pit and she pretended like she hadn't seen the control yet, and then sprinted off while my back was turned. Sneaky :)

A strong finish, but she was way far ahead of me on the trail back in, and I never had a chance. Racing against someone like this made the training even more fun.

It was nice to run someplace with firm ground and lots of hills, felt like being in the states!

No official training was planned but Oskar posted a group run on backbanan. I took a break in the workday to join, but did manage to leave my headlamp and garmin back in the lab.

The group was feeling pretty sore from Rockgympa and other trainings this week, so everyone wanted to go quite slowly. Oskar and Johan planned on running two laps and I joined them at chatting pace for the first lap.

I was quite surprised that we ran 34:37 considering how relaxed the pace felt... I guess that's a good sign of fitness. It was a beautiful evening despite the rainy drizzle.

A fun training set by Johan. Forked orienteering loops mixed with 1k trail intervals. Definitely dark enough for a night-o feel. And I accidentally left my compass in my backpack at the club house, so I did my best to simplify the navigation.

The orienteering went well, but I was certainly way off the pace of the other guys. Saw a lot of the women in the forest though. Losing some time on the tricky control locations. Did my 1k loop chasing down some of the juniors and junior women.

Set off on the second loop mostly alone, missed the first control quite a bit and really blew the finishing leg as well, but the part in the middle was good. Second 1k loop was alone.

Third map loop was okay, but I rolled my ankle a little, and there were times when a compass would have been nice. Couldn't find the 5th control on the loop very well, even with Ursula running right past me while I was looking for it.

A really good use of the Norby woods, needed because of moose hunting season.

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Johan has been updating the map in Eriksberg to be a sprint standard map. Mostly just OCAD symbol switching, but it looks good. He put up a training on the website for an early morning forked sprint, meeting outside our building at 8am. Perfect.

I started first and he started a minute after. There were no flags so at times it was tricky to find the feature. When Johan caught up, we were running a fairly comparable speed. I took different routes, where ever that seemed feasible and managed to keep up fairly well, finishing only a few seconds behind at the end.

We planned to compare routes and splits a bit in the evening, but then I forgot about it.

A good start to the day!

Albin posted that he was running a 3k on the track, and Henrik joined in and offered to run at 3:00 mins/k pace. I joined in as well, but with the goal of instead trying to run about 9:36.

Conditions were cool but otherwise perfect for running, and the first 800 felt smooth and easy. I let Henrik and Albin block the wind for me, and I wasn't too worried that my first couple of laps were a bit faster than intended.

They quickly broke away, and my pace thereafter fell off. I kept pace for another k, but then the last 3rd of the race was more of a struggle. Just glad that I finished in under 10 this time.

The road to better speed starts here :)

After the 3k, as we were cooling down, a large group of Linné runners ran past to see how we had done. Lisa had led her group down, and so Sam and Boris and the rest of them were there to chat with us and encourage us. They continued on their way, and I swung past work to grab my stuff before practice.

My first time back to Rockgympa this season. We were only doing two sets of the three, but that was definitely enough. A huge crowd of people, almost not enough space to have us all make one circle... if it gets any bigger we'll have to do concentric rings or something.

Everything went smoothly except for the planks. Supporting my body on my extra elbow hardware is uncomfortable, even when padded with a squishy mat.

Innebandy/Chaos after rockgympa. At first, 4 teams of 6 squared off, but then as more and more people went home we got down to fewer and smaller teams.

All the playing with work people on Friday's is paying off. I'm still one of the least skilled in the club, but I'm really getting much better :)

Those of us that live the closest and like playing the most kept at it until 8, a very good day for training, and it feels especially good because last week was spent intently preparing for a group presentation that went off very well today.