Training Log Archive: BorisGr

Andalucia Training Camp 2007 with Kat. Day 2.
Las Mimbres, a very interesting area at about 1400m above sea level in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, east of Granada. I ran a classic course here, with the focus being on flow, keeping concentration on long legs, and route choice. This place offered perhaps the most different types of terrain in a single map. We started with open hillsides and standard ridge-and-valley stuff, then had a couple of controls in intricate contour detail in the green, then a bunch of legs on a flattish plateau with a bunch of rock detail, then suddenly two controls on top of really detailed rocky hills that were reminiscent of some stuff on the US Champs day 1 map from last year, followed by some running through open farmland with clumps of vegetation and rock detail interspersed, back to the flattish, fast plateau, and finally a long leg across the map followed by a few short zigzags up and down more steep hills and reentrants in the end. Great stuff!
Map: http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy4/las_mimbres....

Andalucia Training Camp 2007 with Kat. Day 2.
El Pozuelo, a nice middle distance area across the highway from Las Mimbres. Kat and I did some fast-paced training on a middle distance course here. On each control, Kat would get a head start of 10-50 seconds, depending on the leg length, and we'd race each other to the next control. First one to touch the flag wins the leg, the one who wins the most legs wins the course. Great training for orienteering at a very high speed, as well as racing head-to-head. It would have been nice to switch up chasing and following sometimes, but that wouldn't have worked in this case. It worked out well, though Kat beat me 7-6, but i did lose one control because i took a route choice that left me surrounded by a pack of about 15 barking and snarling hunting dogs, with their owner's son finally sauntering over to wave them away after about a minute.
Map: http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy4/el_pozuelo.J...

Warming up and cooling down.

Andalucia Training Camp 2007 with Kat. Day 1.
Los Molares, about halfway between Granada and Cordoba. A fantastic area, and a great way to start the camp with open woods, nice running, and ridge-and-valley terrain mixed with pockets of contour detail and beautiful views of the mountains from hilltops. Took this pretty easy, running the first part with Kat and then a bunch by myself. A couple of mistakes early on, but then settled in and was fine. Will try to put up all the maps when my computer works again.
Map: http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy4/los_molares....

Andalucia Training Camp 2007 with Kat. Day 2.
La Zubia, a map on a hillside in the suburbs of Granada. I planned to run this pretty hard, but this only partly worked, since most of the controls (streamers pre-hung by Pet Sterner, who organizes the o-travel.com training camp) had disappeared, and the area was extrtemely vague, making it difficult to tell which "distinct" tree in a semi-open area was the one the control was meant to be on. The course went mostly downhill, and this was still very good training for knowing how much I have dropped, as well as staying on your bearing, but it would have been a lot more valuable with the controls in place.
Map: http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy4/la_zubia.JPG

Running back up the hill to the start after finishing - about 2km with 200m climb.

Running to and from backbana and also on top of the ridge a bit after finishing my tempo run.

Tempo run on the first loop of Bjorn's backbana. Started with Rob, but could not keep up with him on the downhills, so dropped back and a felt a bit better. Thought about running hard for about 40 minutes, but my stomach was hurting quite a bit, so I stopped at the end of the lap.

Strength with Kat at F&S.
Off to Granada tomorrow! Don't know about internet access there, but a full report will follow when we return.

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A long run with Rob and Reuben Smith (Reubster on AP) on Hjortmossberget on a fine, sunny day. The terrain is a lot more physical than the stuff we normall run through around here, so this was a very nice change of pace. The very technical bits made for great orienteering, but were tough to read at 1:15. Was pretty tired at the end, just dragging my feet the last km or two.

Aqua-jogging with Kat at Fyrishov.

Spinning. Thought about going for a Tuesday night line-O, but decided to not tempt the Ankle Gods quite yet. It would be stupid to get hurt now, before the Spain training camp next week.

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Event: US Team Training Camp
 

Usual trail loop on Stadsskogen in the morning to start off 2007.

Normal strength workout at the gym with Kat when it turned out that the spinning class we planned to go to had been cancelled.

Warm-up, cool-down, and a few intervals on a stationary bike.

After an hour in the gym, Kat and I checked out the Balance Gympa class to see what it was like. Naturally, I was the only male there, and we were basically the only two people under 50. The class involved some balance and flexibility exercises and some relaxation/meditation stuff. Sort of fun, but definitely doesn't qualify as training.

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