Training Log Archive: loobey

Travel day.
First day I've woken up with normal energy levels again since getting ill, despite lack of sleep from the party last night.

Watching WOC Long. Also walked around Turaida Castle with mum between the men's and women's races. Still very tired and not wanting to do very much at all.

Absolutely exhausted today. Very lethargic, although actually ended up doing quite a lot of walking. Took mum on a map walk from the house into Ratnieki to visit my favourite hill and the nice Scandinavian type forest. Showed her some filthy Latvian green forest on the way back though just so she didn't get the wrong impression of Latvian forests ;)

Then in the afternoon Mum, Dad, Marlene and I spent a few hours walking around Sigulda Castle and the very very steep steps to a couple of sandstone caves.

WOC Relay - Turaida

Body said nope :(

This was just horrible. Had the longest split to 1 and was already so far behind before we even entered the forest, and I hadn't even done anything wrong! Then took a bad route to 2 and was suddenly very far behind with only China, Italy and Poland. Already suffering massively just trying to run up the tiny hill to the arena passage. Then basically walking the rest of the course as I felt so terrible. Was as if someone was sitting on my lungs, couldn't breath at all and completely out of energy.
Navigation was fine though, so at least I limited the damage slightly. Had to stop in a stream on the long leg to cool off and have a drink then the last few controls were just painful as they were easy sprint controls, but could barely move.

Immy also had trouble out there and lost a bit more time, and Lizzie ran well to pull us up a couple of places
Team finished up in 19th so slight improvement on last year.

Relay model - Ratnieki

Dad dropped Tim and I to the start then we ran back to their cottage via several controls. So awesome staying right on the map!

WOC Middle - Sigulda
45th

Feeling rubbish all morning but it started raining halfway through my warmup which made me happy and got me in the right mood!

Really enjoyed the course. Was super dark in the forest for the first 5 controls in the rain, so had to take it extra careful to read the map. Safe route to 1 then slowly built up more confidence throughout the course. Bit of a compass direction error on 3 but corrected once I hit the track. Bumbled my way through the next few controls, then got caught in some green on the way to 8 and lost 1min. Got caught by a girl from Belarus and Ukraine so tried to hang onto them across the flat riverbed. Got dropped on the hill to the arena but they then missed the control after arena and I caught back up again.

Finished feeling pretty pleased with this run as it felt quite clean throughout and was running comfortably. Result wasn't quite as good as I thought it would be, but in hindsight I was probably being a bit too cautious and not aggressive enough through the terrain. Don't think I really got into race mode until the end when I was chasing the other 2 girls.

Middle model

Ughhh woke up feeling very broken. Could barely walk down the stairs in the morning as both achilles (particularly the left) were so stiff. Also woke in the middle of the night with a very sore throat which had turned into a full cold by morning.

Hobbled/walked around some controls on the model map. The ones on big hillsides were okay but struggled with compass direction on the vague, flat areas to controls in pits.