Training Log Archive: BorisGr

A saturday morning run that I fit in before picking up Kat. Ran to the clubhouse to meet up with people, then over to the backbana course, then one loop of backbana (31:17) and then home. Felt pretty terrible the whole way, possibly because I slept little last night and ran right after getting up in the morning for the first time in a few weeks.

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Janne's backbana in Uppsala - Splits

All over the place.

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To/from school. The ride back was in a blizzard.

Jogging to Hagdalasskolan, then to the castle for intervals, jogging between intervals, and back home.

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Secret Russian Running Drills, led by Lina on the way to the castle.

I have no idea what the actual pace was, so i am just guessing. The intervals were uphills around Uppsala castle in the snow, mostly on bike paths, with the last section a very steep one, followed by a flat last 50 meters or so. The jog down was the rest and usually took 2:30. I felt pretty strong the whole way, though my foot slipped a few times on the icier sections of the hill. Fun to run intervals in a snowstorm - feels somehow hardcore and very Swedish!
Times: 2:31, 2:26, 2:27, 2:25, 2:26, 2:23.
On the way back, we did three more 2-minute intervals, with 1 minute rest between. Felt pretty tired by the third one....

Gympa at Hagadalsskolan with the club.

Just a few days till OK Linne's winter training premiere. This is advertised as a big event, with fireworks, Night-Micr-O, and food as part of the show. I am looking forward to it and hope it lives up to its billing! Apparently, in order to enter the 'elite group', you need to show up in a green tight unitard... I am still looking for one. :)
Also, Kat will be there, so it should be a very amusing evening for her, especially if i manage to locate a headlmap battery for her by then, which i haven't managed so far...

It has now been three full calendar months for me in Uppsala. Training numbers:
September:
45:15total, 16:38 orienteering, 224.5km
October:
42:40total, 16:09 orienteering, 287.0km
November:
43:03total, 20:35 orienteering, 313.4km

Certainly a lot more training than I was used to before this, so I wonder what the long term effects of this training increase will be. So far (knock on wood!) I feel very good and excited to keep this up through the winter. I am particularly happy with the amount of time I have spent running in the woods, which is something I feel like I never did enough before. I wonder if it'll be possible to keep this up with all the snow, but then there is nothing wrong with skiing appearing on my training calendar once again.
More-or-less standard training week (this is just to remind myself what I want to be doing):
Monday:
easy trail run(60-90min) + gympa (60)
Tuesday:
night forest run with club (120-150 min)
Wednesday:
soccer(~60 min) + nightO race(45-70min)
Thursday:
easy run(45min) + intervals + gympa (40)
Friday:
off or easy run or ski or other?
Saturday/Sunday:
at least 1 day long (120 min+), preferably in terrain or on trails; other day - preferably technical training, though not sure how this will work in the winter yet.
Clearly, the plan is a work in progress. What am i missing? Advice, suggestions, criticisim, hate mail all welcome! (As are guests!!! Anyone want to come run in the snow?)

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Snow soccer! A fun game of slipping and sliding and scoring lots of goals (final score 28-17) after working on the data mining assignment with Christoph.

Another installment of Bjorn's Wednesday Night-O, this one in Vedyxa in several inches of snow. Went much better than last wendesday's though i still made close to ten minutes of mistakes, but at least i was never totally lost and actually had a few good legs through pretty techinical terrain. Oh yeah, the last two nights i ran with the neoprene socks on for the first time. They are awesome!!!! Highly recommend these.

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To and from school, in the snow.

Tuesday night training with the club, my first run in real snow here. Did the 13km version of the run, the extra distance is from the warmup loop and running to and from the clubhouse. This was a more brutal line-O than two weeks ago, with some portions of actual control-finding thrown in, as well as forking and bits of particularly nasty terrain.At one point, one guy we were running with 'found' the control, which was the corner of a swamp by ending up waste-deep in the swamp; and Lars and i took nosedives into the snow almost at the same time fighting through some green. I am still amazed by how well some of these guys navigate - be it day or night. Even just following along on the map is difficult in some places. I was (and am) absolutely wiped out after the run and am having trouble keeping my eyes open. I think the last time i was s physically tired after a workout may have been a ski race or a billygoat or something.

An afternoon run in the snow on the lit path in Stadsskogen. Really pretty - snowy trees, fresh snow, no people at all, and some confused bunnies running out on the trail once in a while. Fun run!

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Monday gympa class with Lars, Mats, Jan, and company. Lars also just started going last week, so we lend each other some moral support in our lack of coordination...