Training Log Archive: 007

Back to work and rainy old Zürich...Legs tired but not really sore.

EOC Long final.
Epic long distance as expected. Spectacular area with the start waaay above the finish but still heaps of hills to be climbed!

Physically I didn't have much in the tank from the start. Whatever was up with my stomach left me feeling really weak, on top of not having done the training to be fit for a race like this. So I never really felt like I could push. I love it when you can really push a long race!

Apart from that I did really enjoy it! It was tough but beautiful terrain. Controls didn't seem technically that difficult, but I guess longs are more about route choice and physical. Happy with my routes (#2 left on the small track, #10 wide right), except apparently #16 was faster to the right. Only real error was exiting #18 thinking I was leaving #19, and although I corrected quickly, I lost the little pack I was with.

http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/20180513_L_W/

http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...

C • Big week 2

Small warm up, v easy. Not feeling strong. Not at all nervous but a bit apprehensive.

EOC Relay, first leg.
This would have been a lot of fun if I hadn't been feeling so shite. Stomach had been feeling off since the day before and pushing up the first hill to #2 I got a horrible acidic stomach and my whole body went kind of weak, even going downhill I felt wobbly.
So I slowly dropped behind and gradually got overtaken which sucked.
Nav was ok except a little search at #16 which I approached rather distractedly. Terrain and course was fun but not very difficult.

Felt so bad about sending my team mates out on their own :(
We had wanted to change the team order to Aislinn first, but just missed the deadline which was a bummer.

27th/30, 8mins down

http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/20180512_R_W1/

https://www.o-l.ch/cgi-bin/results?type=rang&year=...

Cramped warm up in the quarantine, very hot and felt weak.

Rest day, went to long model and enjoyed the beautiful views and birch trees. Felt very tired today and had an arvo nap even after 9 hours sleep!
Also stomach really sore like I had been punched.. then remembered that I had woken up in the middle of the night with really bad heart burn or similar so it must have been from that.

Morning stretch in the forest.

Warm up/down
Super hot and sticky when the sun came out after a massive downpour.

EOC sprint relay
Lonely last leg, which was expected as we were a 3 girl team..
I was still excited about running and it was pretty fun. Started well figuring out the first legs fast. Then some massive climb (130m) and route choice up to some complex Ticino village controls, and route choice legs back down. Not so sure about my route choices and lost 30sec almost climbing a street too high on #4.

https://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/20180510_SR_4/?v=m...

Warm up for middle final. Had such a beautiful morning waiting for the start - it was like paradise in the forest, all sunny and drippy from the overnight thunderstorm, and I even saw an incredible black and yellow salamander!!!
I felt really happy and excited to race, and not really at all nervous.

EOC Middle Final.
I had a pretty good run :) I definitely exceeded my expectations given that I haven't trained enough, but a calm head and solid nav can be worth a lot I realised!

My one main mistake was very frustrating - I ran confidently into #2, a 4x4m depression, and just didn't see the control! I saw a couple of shallow depressions with no control and was just really confused! Almost 2 mins searching and I finally saw the control hiding in the dappled sunlight a few meters from where I had been the whole time aaagh... The depression it was in was a bit substandard.

After that my run was solid. I was caught around #6 by the Lithuanians who started 2mins before and after me - Ausrine is a stronger runner but I managed to keep ahead until the run through with good nav. In the second loop I tried to keep up by taking slightly better routes/short cuts, which worked to #11, but trying to short cut out of 14 and into 15 I lost a bit in green and finished a bit behind. Would have been nice to be a bit stronger on the hills to keep up or ahead.. But I felt fitter than at the Swiss selection middle a month ago.
The womens race was really exciting to spectate, although it was heartbreaking when Julia Gross was announced as mp after thinking she won..

I will upload my maps later but there was GPS:

http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/20180509_MF_W/

http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...

C • Well done!! 7

Warm up for middle model.

EOC Middle qualification, very lucky day to qualify by two seconds!
I was really furious at my self for stuffing the first control up badly - I was scared of dropping height and climbed way too much, all the way up to the second control, losing about 2.5 minutes. In hindsight was a bit more nervous than usual at the start.
My nav was very calm for the rest of the course, nailed al the slope controls and caught back up to Jo who had passed me. Really happy to take a different route to the 4 girls I was with towards the end, making up more than a minute on them.

http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...

Jog in Val Varzasca with middle map.

Warm up for sprint - was worried about my right knee which was a bit twingy, but it came good.
Not really feeling at all nervous, probably because of low expectations.

EOC Sprint qualification in Bellinzona, with the start spectacularly up the top of the castle!
I am a bit annoyed in hindsight at my attitude.. I was certain I wouldn't qualify, because of my lack of fast training and fact that I don't think I've done a sprint race in about a year. But actually qualifying would have been possible without my two smallish mistakes. (20ses falling on my bum whilst taking a steep short cut, and then freaking out that I had passed an uncrossable wall, and 20-30secs way overshooting the control after the spectator).
I navigated well through the tricky town bits..

http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/d...

Event: European Orienteering Championships 2018 & World Cup Round 1
 

V slow jog in Avegno with Jas, with Bellinzona map. Right knee had a sudden twinge which didn't go away and concerned me..