Training Log Archive: BorisGr

To/from school, where I spent four hours sitting in front of a computer with a mental block of some sort, unable to even look at the exam completions my professor wants me to do for the Functional Programming exam I took in December. Instead, I surfed the web for far too long and finally stooped to reading attackpoint discussion threads from year 2000 onwards. One observation (this made me write a big long post which I was about to put up but thought better of): a lot of the AP discussion early on seemed to center around several things:
(1) How bad the US Team is;
(2) How bad the US Junior Team is;
(3) How little American orienteers train;
(4) How the US Team has no sense of community.

This very negative talk seems to have dwindled and maybe even disappeared the last year or two. I have some theories why this is so, but I am curious what others think about this, and whether this is only because people are tired of talking about it or because something has actually changed for the better in national team-level US orienteering (notice, Peter, I didn't say "elite") in the last couple of years?

(As evidence, compare the AP discussion from around the time of JWOC 2002 with the discussion from WOC 2005!)

C • JWOC and WOC discussions 5

From school to Hagadalsskolan, then to Pollacksbacken for intervals, and back.

Secret Russian Running Drills (high knees, butt-kicks, strides, bounding)

Threshold run with the club on icy pavement. We ran three loops around Pollacksbacken, each loop 3.6km, starting with a long downhill and finishing with a long, steephish uphill. My stomach hurt on the first lap, but got better, and the only problem in the end was the ice, which made me slip quite a bit and almost had me end up in the (frozen, i hope) river on the first lap. I managed to avoid slipping badly enough to fall during the threshold run, although, I did just that, hitting my knee hard on the ice with my first step of the warm-up.
Lap times: 13:59,13:59,13:27. (Jan and Mats Troeng ran 36:55! One other guy was ahead of me.)

Normal Linne cicuit training after the run, cut a bit short because we came back late from the threshold run.