Training Log Archive: BorisGr

Well, I managed to survive my debut as a course setter for a Swedish national event without any major catastrophes. The weather, which has been fairly nasty the past week, cooperated beyond belief to make for a 20C day with a perfect blue sky. People seemed pretty pleased with the courses, and my predicted winning times for H21 and D21 were right on. The only thing that could have been better was my D10 course, which appeared to be on the hard side with a winning time of 33 minutes. On the other hand, H10 had the same exact course and was won in 24 minutes. Strange.
All in all, course-setting was a positive experience, and I got all the help and support I needed as long as I asked for it. I would consider doing this again in a couple of years.
Off to Sapporo tomorrow.

Coordinated the pre-running of my courses for Sunday's event. Things mostly went well, except it was discovered that the mapper accidentally erased two whole contour lines right before the map was printed! Grrrr. Still, things went well otherwise. I am still nervous about Sunday, but less so now.

C • Map doesn't need them. 6

Event: 2008 Laramie Daze & US Champs
 

Running around Hagby for like the tenth time this summer. This time with Ulrik in the rain. Checking a bunch of the controls yet again, and checking that the re-mapping makes sense. Now it's time to spend the whole night fixing the courses before flying off to the States in the morning.

Scared by the length of the US Champs courses, I got myself out the door for my first longish run in eternity. Ran around Nåsten, mostly on small trails and through woods. So nice to be out, even if my butt hurt!

Injury update: Between Jukola and O-Ringen I did virtually nothing, trying to see if rest made any difference. I think I ran in the forest twice during the JWOC week and once a week before O-Ringen, each time for about 40 minutes. No other training. As of O-Ringen, there had been no change for better or worse, so I ran O-Ringen, switching down to the H21Kort (Short) course for the week. I ran ok, coming in 14th out of 250 other invalids on the course overall. I felt very much out of shape, but my navigation was ok and the injury did not get worse during the week.
Before the last day, I got treated by Vendula Klechova, Halden's and the Czech WOC Team's physio, who came highly recommended by Swisscheese. She poked at me for a while, then sat on me, caused some unspeakable pain, and declared that my injury wasn't really a muscle strain (which should have gotten better with rest), but some sort of imbalance in the pelvis that causes my periformis muscle to be constantly pulled. She said going to a chiropractor and doing a bunch of stretching and strength for the butt muscles and quads is the way to get cured. She also said I can start running, as long as I do all these other things. So I suppose I will start training again and search for a chiropractor to see. Anyone know a good one in the Laramie area?

The 2008 season is already pretty much ruined for me. The US Champs are the next event on the schedule, and I am going, but still not sure if I will run and what course I should do. If I am feeling ok, I will try to run blue and just have fun and enjoy the courses and the awesome Wyoming terrain, not really thinking about results and places and not having any expectations.

Time to plan the comeback for 2009. Where/when are the US Champs?

C • US champs 09 7

C • O-gear 1

Jog with Kat out to Nåsten to find a geocache buried there, our 7th so far. Beautiful, sunny day. Nice to be in the forest that feels so familiar by now.