Training Log Archive: BorisGr

Hill training with the club, organized by Andreas at Sunnersta. Start at the bottom, run a 1km loop that includes two hills (55m climb total per loop) and take splits at the SI units at the tops of the hills. A nice run with a bit of snow falling the whole time. Didn't get any splits, though, as Andreas' computer battery died during the run. I tried to keep a pretty even pace the whole time and felt like 10 was the right number of loops to run.

C • A bit of snow? 2

I got my orthotics today. As I expected, they didn't really fit into my O-shoes, which are probably the most important shoes for my foot to have support for. Oh well, I'll start by putting them in my walking and running shoes and see how it goes.

C • orthotics 8

Ankles.

Monday night gympa. An easy week (or two) of training has begun, probably lasting until Tom's training camp in Karlstad the weekend after next.

Ankles.

Running on trails and doing a piece of the Lidingo Loppet course (the last 10km or so) while visiting Andrew Quin on Lidingo. A very nice run on a very nice, crispy cold sunny day, with some hills thrown in.

C • Linne! 2

I spent this morning listening to the live radio broadcast of Smalandskavlen, where the Linne guys had an awesome race, and came in 3rd, with Jan Troeng sprinting past Thierry in the finish chute for 3rd place. This is OK Linne men's best result in a major international relay, and it's awesome to see!!

Ankles.

A really nice run on the best part of Lunsen on a rare bright sunny October day. Did an old course in reverse, orienteering pretty well the whole way and managing to avoid the hunters. Yeah, really fun!
Suzanne came along and did a map hike. Not sure if we should count the hour or so of biking to get there and back as training.

To and from Lunsen.

Ankles.

Morning jogg in short sleeves! The usual loop on a grey October morning that is slowly turning into a beautiful blue-gold afternoon. The fall colors are still in full bloom, and the view onto the castle and cathedral from my window right now is spectacular.

Flexibility exercises, dips, crunches, etc.

Found myself at Fyrishov, so decided I might as well aquajog so i could feel like i earned the time in the hot tub afterwards. The time went by pretty quickly as i watched my friends dive off the 10 meter platform.

Ankles.

Running to and from training from home.

Orienteering intervals, so-called Tennis Orienteering. You divide into groups of 3-4 runners of similar speed (i was with Lasso, Muschen, and Bjorn, who stopped after 5) and do short orienteering courses (600-800 meters, 3 controls), starting about with about 10-15 seconds between runners. Meet at the finish of the loop and repeat the process for the next loop, shuffling the start order. The idea is to force you to run fast and orienteer well under pressure. It was fun, though i felt slow and stupid today. Everyone made more-or-less stupid mistakes in Stadsskogen in the rain tonight, including all of us following Lasso on a totally wrong trail to the finish of one of the loops.... Still, good fun!

C • Tennis O is great! 10

Ankles.

Maybe the orienteering gods are telling me to take a rest week. Either that, or a year of night-O simply hasn't taught me anything. We had a training out on Hammarskog (now that there is a new map there, i'm sure we'll be spending tons of time there! In fact, the club voted to not allow H/D16 and older runners to race the Night-DM there next year so that it doesn't have to be embargoed and we can train on it.) But anyway, i figured i'd take it easy and just jog the course, slowly remembering how night-O works again, but i could barely find anything even at slow speed. I had trouble with even the most basic things, such as keeping direction, staying on a trail, or picking the right trail. Ended up cutting out part of the course and still coming in after all the others. Well, let's hope things will only improve from here. Was pretty low on motivation, too, so i think i'll make next week officially "the easy week" so i feel fresher by the time of TYRTOM's training camp in Karlstad.

C • Night-O 3

Ankles