Training Log Archive: mm-ha

Started in the afternoon for the epic car ride to scotland, arrived more than 24h later.
But it was totally worth it :)

And another long day finishing cleaning out the flat, which involved carrying out a whole Mercedes Sprinter full of furniture and drop it partly at his parents house and partly at the garbage collection and then dismanteling and reassembling a large fish tank. And in between trying to transport said fish tank in a new estate car - which designer had the silly idea to build estate cars with an only about 70cms high boot?
But now thankfully we're finished with it and can start getting ready for holiday in Scotland...

Long day starting cleaning out my boyfriends brothers flat. Then after dinner transporting a large sofa bed from his parents house to his flat, cause they needed the place for something else - unfortunately that was much more difficult than planned (we needed to borrow a little trailer from a neighbour, etc). In the end it was after 11pm when we were finished :(

Event: 6. LRL Baden-Württemberg
 

Long distance at the Dachsberg.
Ugly, stony, wet, ugly forest (can't understand whyI liked that one last year :( ) + I forgot to take my head to the start. Major fuck up to the first control, another one to the 3. control and from then on it was all along a steep hill with lots of stony stuff there - no running for me, just carefully fighting my way through the stones.
Knee started to hurt soon into the run and got worse and worse with every control along the hillside. Thought it would get better after 6 (when the hillside part was finished), but the uphill of course hurt too. Then even flat running on a nice path to 8 hurt, so I decided to better call it a day and give my knee some rest - don't want to seriously inflame it before the trip to Schottland.
I'm absolutely pissed about that, cause it's the first time in my adult years that I'm giving up a competition. Destroyed a perfect statistic there - and of course made it easier for the thought to creep up again next time when nothing goes according to plan . Still think that it was the right decision anyway...
Details:
To 1) Understood nothing at all about the paths on the map, and only started to really know where I was when I reached the stance. Maybe 4 min lost?
To 3) Came too far downhill from the beginning, was completely planless part of the way (should have ran along the path when I first crossed it, but didn't see it). Then searched for 4:30 in the circle :(
To 4) OK, more or less
To 5) OK, but ugly to run/walk/climb and no chance to stay on the same height
To 6) Didn't see the path under the line when I was hitting it and thought I'm already much higher. Which confused me for a bit, but not too long.

And 2 or 3 hours strenght-crosstraining in the evening: dismantling a very large not longer used terrarium + high bed at my boyfriends flat (and carry lots of heavy wood downstairs for the garbage truck that's coming in the morning) to make room for some stuff from his dead brother's flat that has to go in his flat - e.g. a large fish tank.

Event: Regional Middle Champs Baden-Württemberg
 

BWEM middle distance in Mönchweiler.
Forest a bit unrunable (but that seems to be the norm everywhere this year), but course was fun and I had a good race. Some mistakes, but not to bad. Time looks slow, but compared to the competitors it was OK.
Details:
To 3) Expected the control too far to the right, but then found it pretty fast. 15s
To 6) Came a bit too far left, but realized it soon. 15s
To 7) Got stuck in the vegetation around the stream, it took me 3 min. to cross the stream from street to street :( In hindsight, should have gone down the hill at the first path after the control and crossed the stream there...
To 9) Was superconfused after crossing the thicket because I somehow imagined beeing on the other stretch of yellow. 1 min.
To 13) Came too far downhill and was confused by that for a while. 1:30 lost