Training Log Archive: BorisGr

Event: Hudson Highlander X
 

Biking with a weight (for the last time this week - Kat flies to England, and I - to Italy tomorrow).

Warm up, cool-down

A middle distance race at Koping, my last race before the World Cups next week. I ran well, and settled into a nice rhythm after the first couple of controls, but made a couple of mistakes (0:30, 0:40, 0:30; 1:30) on the second half of the course when I tried to pick up the pace. Still, probably my cleanest race so far in Sweden, but again pretty far back of the leader (Hakan Eriksson won in 31 or so...)
Off to Italy tomorrow morning - 6 races in a week should be pretty intense. I am excited!!

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Running with Kat at Stadsskogen, exploring numerous small trails and so on.

To and from class

To the Uppsala Train Station and back for a fun day trip to Stockholm with Kat.

Biking with weights: to class and back, to KG and back (in pouring rain in the dark, slightly tipsy!)

To Kung Bjorn's Hill and back

Jan Svanlund Open!
This awesome race was the local equivalent of the 2005 North American Sprint Series Finals. A fun race put on by the Troeng brothers, it was a supersprint held on a 1:1500 map with 1 meter contours. On a wednesday night, this meet gathered almost 100 people, mostly students, and was handled with great professionalism by the Troengs: the meet packet included a model map (maybe 30x30m), a meal ticket for a full pizza, a commemorative pen and keychain, and a 'hug ticket', which you could validate on the spot. Quite impressive for a fun little race in the middle of the week! The race itself was a blast: 29 controls over 1.4km, lots of forking (shown on the website) and 20 second start intervals. I ran about 12:50 (winning time an impressive 9:21) but mispunched for the first time in my life, punching a control about 6 meters away from the correct one... Still, the event was great, with a spectator-friendly superfinal, with the start on top of a pre-viking burial mound, and the whole course (literally, the whole course) visible to all the spectators. Video of all this is on the website linked above.
After the race, all participants were invited to a sauna, followed by a pizza party, where beer, speeches, and Swedish drinking songs flowed freely. All in all, a fantastic experience of the fun side of Swedish orienteering!

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Biking to Gamla Uppsala and back and around town.

Linne Night-O Champs, together with Kat. Ran around and tried not to get lost too much. Succeeded for the most part and had a great time! We did most of the H21 course, except for two controls, and mostly took very, very safe route choices, as we had trouble almost every time we were in the woods - unless we slowed down to a walk. Night-O is still tough!!!

Running to KG and back, with a detour to look at a horse and some yaks.

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Biking with weights (Kat).

Circuit training with Kat and Linne people at KG