Training Log Archive: jonny crickmore

Speed Touristing round Helsinki. Managed to get in plenty of sights and a nice run on a lovely day.

Easy jog after arriving at my room for the 2 nights.

Event: Jukola 2017
 

Model event. Big rocks lovely forest and some hard green bits.

JUKOLA 1st Leg 34th +2:41

GPS-http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/2017jukol1/

Splits-http://results.jukola.com/tulokset/fi/j2017_ju/kil...

An unsurprisingly very fast start. I probably dropped about 10/15 places but that was after running a 68 first 400m (1 seconds too fast unfortunately). Yet after about 5min people started slowing so moved up the field and I had wanted to be about 10th so got there and stayed there feeling good. Then the field split with 8 one way and 1 the other. I knew the one person was a much better route for me so went that way. I lost sight of him in the green and even though I only had about 100m to do by myself I missed and blew a minute overshooting the control. Then to two I got caught up with everyone else dropping and ended up much too low losing another 45sec (with Antonio) . At the first common control I was 2:01 behind and 103rd which wasn't great.

Getting slightly annoyed in the train but had a rough plan of sit in uphill then go parallel to train on downhills and throw myself down. This worked well. Nailed my gaffle on 6 not getting distracted by everyone else then flew down to 7 winning the split. A bit of confusion at 9 but got away with only a small miss then hit the path to 10 and started overtaking people. Including Ravinen 2nd team.

Then on long leg just followed the pack to the field (got very confused as it looked like a lake) then had my gel as we hit the field and put the motors on. Really pushed hard and this showed as I overtook 47 teams and was 6th fastest only 17sec down on an ungaffled leg.

Then another best split to 14 on another downhill smash. Small miss to 15 as I went via the other gaffle but realised quickly. Then lost a lot of time 59sec on longish leg. I think I was just slow up the hill and then hesistant through the green trying to get the control. Which I did at least. Then my group split so was solo to my gaffle 17 which I nailed then I just had to hang on for dear life on the running to finish as I was now paying for earlier efforts. Passed by a few teams but not losing too much time hopefully.


Well another first leg and another performance where I would say I did my job (don't fuck it all up) but not much more than that. I'm definitely capable of coming in in the lead group but it is much more important to be consistent.

History
2017 - 34th +2:41
2016 - 38th +2:52
2013 - 32nd +1:19
2012 - 263rd +18:07 (not sure why they let me do it again after this one)

Then we managed to hold solid performances through the night to send out the demon duo of Ruslan and Gustav in 30th who had flyers to bring us up to 10th. Never expected to come this high.

Sprint round Tampere. Very hilly so took it easy as feeling tired.

Gaffled relay training.

Nailed the first two then massively screwed up three along with others behind me. Then missed 4 also another couple of minutes. Pushed hard and had no idea if anybody had spiked or who was behind and such. Then another 1min+miss but then at next control found everyone wandering about and spiked it. Then pushed on and nailed next two controls. Overtook Purko at 2nd to last control and turned out that was the lead. He had absolutely no idea. A pretty shocking performance by myself and EUOC as a whole.

Middle distance training on area next door. Mostly good.

Mass start night-o. Same course as Tuesday. Was just as bad and starting getting pissed off so just walked it in at the end.

Didn't realise start wasn't at car park so over to start after WU

Long training on 1:15 map. I had decided to try and take the most feasible straight option on every leg to practice compass and get terrain time. After the most glorious forest where the car park was the rest of the area was very shitty. Perfect for Estonia. Another mixed bag. Struggle to keep contact/good bearing on long vague legs. Struggling by the end as it was quite hot.

Got picked up at Tampere station at 10:00 and went straight to night-o with Carcas, Mark and Nathan.

A mixed bag of success but some pretty hefty mistakes in there. Did a mix of solo and group stuff. Feeling good in the terrain just struggling with the nav.