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Sunday Jul 1, 2007 #
Running 20:00 [2] 2.5 mi (8:00 / mi)
shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Jogging to the start on a rainy day 3.
Orienteering race 1:21:51 [4] *** 11.7 km (7:00 / km)
spiked:19/27c shoes: 2007 model Falcons
OK Linne Latvia Training Camp. Day 8.
Kapa 3-Days Day 3. H21E.
I was the last starter of the day on this wet final race of the 3-days. Figured I'd go out hard and see what happens. What happened were mistakes on 1 and 3, then decent speed for a bunch of controls, a good long leg into the middle of the greeen on 12, and then a disaster on 13. A parallel error in the green, and I was gone. 5 and a half minutes wasted! Not much motivation after this. Jogged the next two legs, then sped up again for a while, chose a route choice along the beach for the pretty views (turned out to be a decent route), started feeling good, and sped up again. Ran quite well in the fast forest on 21-23, and then sped up some more, leading to 4 minutes of mistakes on 24 and 25! All in all, 12 minutes of errors for the day, the most for a single race in a long time. Yuck. No excuses, just plain bad orienteering. The only positive thing coming from this race is that today I felt the best physically of all the days, which should mean I am in at least decent shape. Otherwise - mostly frustration. About 7 weeks left until WOC to fix things.
Splits: http://www.kapaok.lv/kapa07/1st_3d_splits.html#240...
Mats' map: http://www.matstroeng.se/maps/2007/show_map.php?ma...
Kapa 3-Days Day 3. H21E.
I was the last starter of the day on this wet final race of the 3-days. Figured I'd go out hard and see what happens. What happened were mistakes on 1 and 3, then decent speed for a bunch of controls, a good long leg into the middle of the greeen on 12, and then a disaster on 13. A parallel error in the green, and I was gone. 5 and a half minutes wasted! Not much motivation after this. Jogged the next two legs, then sped up again for a while, chose a route choice along the beach for the pretty views (turned out to be a decent route), started feeling good, and sped up again. Ran quite well in the fast forest on 21-23, and then sped up some more, leading to 4 minutes of mistakes on 24 and 25! All in all, 12 minutes of errors for the day, the most for a single race in a long time. Yuck. No excuses, just plain bad orienteering. The only positive thing coming from this race is that today I felt the best physically of all the days, which should mean I am in at least decent shape. Otherwise - mostly frustration. About 7 weeks left until WOC to fix things.
Splits: http://www.kapaok.lv/kapa07/1st_3d_splits.html#240...
Mats' map: http://www.matstroeng.se/maps/2007/show_map.php?ma...
Saturday Jun 30, 2007 #
Running 35:00 [2] 4.12 mi (8:30 / mi)
All the various warm-ups and cool-downs of the day.
Orienteering race 44:51 [5] *** 6.1 km (7:21 / km)
spiked:12/16c shoes: 2007 model Falcons
OK Linne Latvia Training Camp. Day 7. AM.
Kapa 3-days Day 2. Middle distance WRE, H21E.
I had been looking forward to this middle distance world ranking event for a while now and felt quite good at the start. That feeling lasted till about the first control, where I wasn't sure where exactly I hit a vague ridge in the green and ran around for over a minute trying to figure it out. On the way to 3, I realized that I was feeling pretty tired and tried to push myself harder, not looking at the map nearly enough. In fact, this plagued me during the whole race - I was just too lazy with my map reading and orienteered more like I had the day before, when there were pretty long stretches of just running, with no fine navigation necessary. This cost me over and over today - a bunch of small mistakes on 3,4,5,6, then a good stretch between 7 and 13, and then two more boneheaded errors on 14 and 15, the last one coming in full view of the finish. Again, very disappointing. In an awful mood after the race. Ended up 51st, over 9 (!!!) minutes back of Martins Sirmais' winning time.
Splits: http://www.kapaok.lv/kapa07/1st_2d_splits.html#257...
Mats' map: http://www.matstroeng.se/maps/2007/show_map.php?ma...
Kapa 3-days Day 2. Middle distance WRE, H21E.
I had been looking forward to this middle distance world ranking event for a while now and felt quite good at the start. That feeling lasted till about the first control, where I wasn't sure where exactly I hit a vague ridge in the green and ran around for over a minute trying to figure it out. On the way to 3, I realized that I was feeling pretty tired and tried to push myself harder, not looking at the map nearly enough. In fact, this plagued me during the whole race - I was just too lazy with my map reading and orienteered more like I had the day before, when there were pretty long stretches of just running, with no fine navigation necessary. This cost me over and over today - a bunch of small mistakes on 3,4,5,6, then a good stretch between 7 and 13, and then two more boneheaded errors on 14 and 15, the last one coming in full view of the finish. Again, very disappointing. In an awful mood after the race. Ended up 51st, over 9 (!!!) minutes back of Martins Sirmais' winning time.
Splits: http://www.kapaok.lv/kapa07/1st_2d_splits.html#257...
Mats' map: http://www.matstroeng.se/maps/2007/show_map.php?ma...
Orienteering race 15:19 [5] *** 3.0 km (5:06 / km)
spiked:14/15c shoes: Saucony 2006
OK Linne Latvia Training Camp. Day 7. PM.
Kapa 3-days Sprint. H21E.
An evening sprint race in a park in Liepaja, right on the Baltic shore. This was a really fun sprint, with a mix of park orienteering and intricate sand dune running. The sand "canyons" also provided for excellent spectating, and the crowds were quite large and loud, making for a really fun atmosphere. Like most of us, I was very tired beforehand and barely managed a warm-up jog. After the start, though, I was feeling pretty good and managed to run ok. I made a 45-second mitske early on, running just by a bit on #6, but ran well on the sand dunes, not really making any mistakes, and finished 16th overall, 2:10 behind Mats' impressive winning time, but just over 1:30 from a top 3.
Splits: http://www.kapaok.lv/kapa07/sprint_splits.html
Mats' map: http://www.matstroeng.se/maps/2007/show_map.php?ma...
Kapa 3-days Sprint. H21E.
An evening sprint race in a park in Liepaja, right on the Baltic shore. This was a really fun sprint, with a mix of park orienteering and intricate sand dune running. The sand "canyons" also provided for excellent spectating, and the crowds were quite large and loud, making for a really fun atmosphere. Like most of us, I was very tired beforehand and barely managed a warm-up jog. After the start, though, I was feeling pretty good and managed to run ok. I made a 45-second mitske early on, running just by a bit on #6, but ran well on the sand dunes, not really making any mistakes, and finished 16th overall, 2:10 behind Mats' impressive winning time, but just over 1:30 from a top 3.
Splits: http://www.kapaok.lv/kapa07/sprint_splits.html
Mats' map: http://www.matstroeng.se/maps/2007/show_map.php?ma...
Note
Oddly, still got over 900 WRE points despite an awful race. What a weird system. Also, there is someone named Kristaps Tamuzs in the results, who is listed as being from USA. Anyone know who this is? I did see some peope in USA Orienteering jackets, but I think they were all women, and I think they were there for the deaf (hearing-impaired? What's the PC term these days?) orienteering races.
Friday Jun 29, 2007 #
Event: Kapa 3-days
Running 25:38 [2] 3.31 mi (7:45 / mi)
shoes: Saucony 2006
OK Linne Latvia Training Camp. Day 6. AM.
Morning jog to get my legs feeling a bit looser.
Morning jog to get my legs feeling a bit looser.
Running 20:00 [2] 2.5 mi (8:00 / mi)
shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
Warm-up, cool-down.
Orienteering race 1:18:29 [4] *** 11.5 km (6:49 / km)
24c shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
OK Linne Latvia Training Camp. Day 6.
Kapa 3-Days Day 1. H21E.
After feeling comfortable in this sand dune terrain for a few days, I was quite optimistic about my chances for decent runs at the Kapa 3-days. And, though I felt a bit tired on the first day, I seemed to run ok, avoiding major mistakes. I was pretty content with my run when I finished, though I knew I did get tired towards the end and lost some time. However, looking at the splits later, I saw that I simply wasn't running fast enough and also choosing overly conservative route choices. Disappointing. Ended up 44th on the day, 16 minutes behind Mats' winning time. I probably would have been even more disappointed if I knew then that this would be my best result of the 3 days...
Splits: http://www.kapaok.lv/kapa07/1st_1d_splits.html#269...
Mats' map: http://www.matstroeng.se/maps/2007/show_map.php?ma...
Kapa 3-Days Day 1. H21E.
After feeling comfortable in this sand dune terrain for a few days, I was quite optimistic about my chances for decent runs at the Kapa 3-days. And, though I felt a bit tired on the first day, I seemed to run ok, avoiding major mistakes. I was pretty content with my run when I finished, though I knew I did get tired towards the end and lost some time. However, looking at the splits later, I saw that I simply wasn't running fast enough and also choosing overly conservative route choices. Disappointing. Ended up 44th on the day, 16 minutes behind Mats' winning time. I probably would have been even more disappointed if I knew then that this would be my best result of the 3 days...
Splits: http://www.kapaok.lv/kapa07/1st_1d_splits.html#269...
Mats' map: http://www.matstroeng.se/maps/2007/show_map.php?ma...
Thursday Jun 28, 2007 #
Orienteering 1:00:00 [2] 6.0 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
OK Linne Latvia Training Camp. Day 5. AM.
Yesterday part 1 of the camp ended, and we (by now a massive group of 45 Linne runners) moved to Bernati, just south of Liepaja, after a several-hour stop in Riga to be touristy. This included visiting the Museum of Occupation of Latvia from 1940-1991, which provided a picture of the USSR as an aggressor that I wasn't exposed to much when growing up in Moscow.
Anyway, today we (the foreigners - Kat, Suzanne, Michele, Patrick, and myself) were responsible for training, so I went out to hang a bunch of toilet paper controls in the morning. Feeling, not surprisingly, tired.
Yesterday part 1 of the camp ended, and we (by now a massive group of 45 Linne runners) moved to Bernati, just south of Liepaja, after a several-hour stop in Riga to be touristy. This included visiting the Museum of Occupation of Latvia from 1940-1991, which provided a picture of the USSR as an aggressor that I wasn't exposed to much when growing up in Moscow.
Anyway, today we (the foreigners - Kat, Suzanne, Michele, Patrick, and myself) were responsible for training, so I went out to hang a bunch of toilet paper controls in the morning. Feeling, not surprisingly, tired.
Orienteering 30:00 [1]
OK Linne Latvia Training Camp. Day 5. PM.
Hanging more controls in the afternoon with Kat. Mostly walking this time. Very, very windy on the beautiful beach. I highly recommend Suzanne's pictures for views of the beach and the camp life in general.
Hanging more controls in the afternoon with Kat. Mostly walking this time. Very, very windy on the beautiful beach. I highly recommend Suzanne's pictures for views of the beach and the camp life in general.
Wednesday Jun 27, 2007 #
Running 15:00 [2] 1.76 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
Warm-up, cool-down.
Orienteering 1:00:38 [2] *** 7.8 km (7:46 / km)
19c shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
OK Linne Latvia Training Camp. Day 4. AM.
Recovery training - shadowing Kat around another course on Gauja's Griva. She orienteered well, it was fun to see!
Recovery training - shadowing Kat around another course on Gauja's Griva. She orienteered well, it was fun to see!
Tuesday Jun 26, 2007 #
Running 15:00 [2] 1.88 mi (8:00 / mi)
shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
Running to the start.
Orienteering 36:12 [5] *** 6.3 km (5:45 / km)
spiked:17/20c shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
OK Linne Latvia Training Camp. Day 3. AM.
Middle distance training race on a different part of Garciems, the 1:7500 map we ran on yesterday. Ran quite well most of the way, but made a 2:30 mistake on a control, where the map was very sketchy. A lot of people made a mistake in that area. Good race otherwise. Best time - Ulf Troeng, 30 min.
Middle distance training race on a different part of Garciems, the 1:7500 map we ran on yesterday. Ran quite well most of the way, but made a 2:30 mistake on a control, where the map was very sketchy. A lot of people made a mistake in that area. Good race otherwise. Best time - Ulf Troeng, 30 min.
Running 20:00 [2] 2.5 mi (8:00 / mi)
shoes: 2007 model Falcons
Running to and from the map.
Orienteering 58:28 [5] *** 8.0 km (7:19 / km)
35c shoes: 2007 model Falcons
OK Linne Latvia Training Camp. Day 3. PM.
Tennis-OL with Michele and Patrick. In other words, orienteering intervals, where each interval consist of a short course, about 800-1200 m with 4-5 controls. We start about 20 seconds apart and take turns starting first, second, and last. The idea is to run at above race speed and try to maintain concentration while not being swayed by others around. The "tennis" aspect of it is that apparently you get points for finishing each interval first.
We did this on Saulkrastu, a map right next to our accommodations, with a mixture of normal sand dune terrain, some short and steep hills, and flat areas with low visibility and tons of pits - this last part was certainly the hardest to orienteer in at high speed. We did the first four with Patrick and Michele, then just with Michele after Patrick's shins started hurting. I ran very hard and orienteered pretty well, though Michele was definitely stronger than me on the last interval, which we did as a mini-mass start. This was great training, and excellent terrain for this type of training.
Tennis-OL with Michele and Patrick. In other words, orienteering intervals, where each interval consist of a short course, about 800-1200 m with 4-5 controls. We start about 20 seconds apart and take turns starting first, second, and last. The idea is to run at above race speed and try to maintain concentration while not being swayed by others around. The "tennis" aspect of it is that apparently you get points for finishing each interval first.
We did this on Saulkrastu, a map right next to our accommodations, with a mixture of normal sand dune terrain, some short and steep hills, and flat areas with low visibility and tons of pits - this last part was certainly the hardest to orienteer in at high speed. We did the first four with Patrick and Michele, then just with Michele after Patrick's shins started hurting. I ran very hard and orienteered pretty well, though Michele was definitely stronger than me on the last interval, which we did as a mini-mass start. This was great training, and excellent terrain for this type of training.
Monday Jun 25, 2007 #
Orienteering 1:07:00 [3] *** 8.0 km (8:23 / km)
28c shoes: 2007 VJ Falcons
OK Linne Latvia Training Camp. Day 2. AM.
Orienteering loops on Garciems, a very detailed 1:7500 map. Lots of small depressions and hills and really fast running, but pretty soft and sandy ground, making running very tiring pretty quivkly.
My blister hurt, so I skipped out on the last loop.
Orienteering loops on Garciems, a very detailed 1:7500 map. Lots of small depressions and hills and really fast running, but pretty soft and sandy ground, making running very tiring pretty quivkly.
My blister hurt, so I skipped out on the last loop.
Orienteering 1:05:00 [3] *** 10.0 km (6:30 / km)
24c shoes: 2007 model Falcons
OK Linne Latvia Training Camp. Day 2. PM.
Put some of Michele's magical foot paste on the blister and felt great. Did no-compass training on a map called Gauja's Griva. Really enjoyed running and orienteering here. Beautiful forest!
Put some of Michele's magical foot paste on the blister and felt great. Did no-compass training on a map called Gauja's Griva. Really enjoyed running and orienteering here. Beautiful forest!