Training Log Archive: 007

total rest except for a few hours slow walk in the grey. feeling pretty tired and legs sore.

C • O yeh! 1

'High Technical High Speed' training day with Swiss squad and NLZ, in Goldau. I was a bit nervous beforehand after feeling generally demoralised this week about my bad start to the year training wise and lack of confidence in my knee in terrain.. but when I saw the forest with HUGE rocks etc I got excited and remembered how much I love orienteering :)
First exercise was 5x 5-7mins O intervals on a sprint map with a mix of urban and forest with huge rocks. We ran in pairs (me with Karin from Austria which worked well) starting each interval together but had to go different ways to the first control (generally longer leg) with one of us yelling out our decision. Good practice at fast decision making, trying to catch up after taking a slower route and running flat out with lots of other people in really technical terrain.
Made about one error on each interval as I was pushing beyond my limit, but a good experience.
Knee was totally fine in the very rough terrain and I was very happy to feel I could run with my usual full terrain aggression.. just what I was afraid I had lost. wooohoo :)

After a typical Swiss athletes hot pasta lunch we headed back out for a Middle distance race. The map was at 1:6000 with 27 controls in 4.1km, awesome course with three sets of butterfly loops and a section at the end which was like a hilly maze amongst huge rocks.
I was mostly very happy with my navigation, I managed to stay on the ball while pushing hard and concentrated well despite lots of other people running in different directions in the technical parts. Lost about a minute in a couple of places- when confused by seeing a new track, exiting a control badly and getting stuck in rock jungle, and from approaching the second last control in the green badly. Definitely felt the lack of hard running fitness when on tracks and up hills, lungs were burning and didn't feel I had my full brain power when running hard. However I was heartened to feel I can run hard in the terrain again :) Though I am definitely a bit unaccustomed to this leaping about in forests as I pulled up with some very sore muscles, particularly calves.
10mins behind Simone who was fastest by 2mins, 10th/16.

10 mins uphill run to the start, 7mins run to the train station after.

NLZ OL training Regensberg, a middle distance course with finish quite a bit lower than the start. At the beginning there was snow on th ground and lots of fallen timber and I felt very nervous/cautious about the knee but once out of the snow I got some confidence back and was managing to run more aggressively. Felt a bit unfit and lacking speed/ability to push along the tracks, a bit demoralised about the fact that it is already april...

Flat night run after a long day at work. Felt good and decent pace for the first 20mins then hit some kind of wall..felt dizzy and floaty and struggled the last 10mins home. Just tired I suppose. Feet and lower legs also a bit sore from standing all day.

balancing etc at physio

Flat run with an attempt at Fartlek, but after the first fast minute my knee tendon felt rather suddenly sore so i walked 5mins and ran the rest easy without problems.

Running drills in warm up

Pool running 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 with 1min rec. took it really hard, switching techniques to share the fatigue amongst different muscles

Rest day- legs feeling tired after two days running on hills. Went for a lovely hour or so walk in the forest.