Training Log Archive: Jan Erik Naess

We played pond hockey for a really long time. It was pretty tiring but I made sure not to push myself too hard.

2 one hour sessions

Feeling much better today, hopefully I'll be well by tomorrow :D

On another note, I will start running as soon as I am no longer sick! Time to kickstart the season ;P

http://www.guedels.ch/karten/show_map.php?user=jon...

It took a little while to get into the map and understand which contours were up and which were down... I think I would take the lower route when going to #7, following up the re-entrant, to the train, hopping off at the river and coming down from the hill, weaving through the smaller hills as I approached 7, paralleling the trail.

Really technical map that I'll have to look at again soon.

Walked the madness course to pick up controls, because I can't run till Tuesday...

I can already tell this will be another hard beginning of the season with my hip flexors, good things I'm going to start training early :)

Navigation wise it went fairly well, I was talking a lot with my friend and not really looking at the map, so I had a few errors coming into controls but none by over 15m. I can't wait to actually run a race!

Two sprint maps and a forest map from norway. I found an app on my iPhone where people upload maps and you just scroll to the areas where they are to see them, so I tried it out.

I noticed that any kind of spent map where it's nice and open with decent streets I'm comfortable and calm in. But those swiss maps where its all small corridors and not direct routes that mess me up by freaking me out.

I need to work on my confidence with navigating in those kinds of sprint terrains, and the one specifically for JWOC, which I like a bit more because its houses. It cannot be underestimated the insane difficulty of that course though, I know it'll be though..

I slept with my head up, that helped a lot and I'm starting to feel better today :)

C • ARX training 2

I have been working on planning out which maps to use for trainings this spring. I've been picking what type of orienteering is best for each one so that I can get the most out of each :D I have my dad to guide me, but that's all, so I was wondering if you folks knew of any other good orienteering training types to use, here are the ones I know of and are planning with:

-Star-O
*(or butterfly-o as Raphael says ;) Where you have a loop of controls then come back and do another small loops several times)

-Contouring
*(we don't have many hills, but I need goo practice with compass bearings up hills and getting a feel for elevation differences)

-Hills then technical
*(This will be important for swiss climbing and technical terrain. Keep focus!)

-Line-O
*(Follow a precise route and keep to it. Come back and say where the flags were hung to show that you did it right)

-Corridor-O
*(The newest and coolest addition to my repertoire of training techniques. Great for allowing you to use an area twice, improve your feeling for distance)

-Compass Bearing
*(I need to work on my bearings in dense terrain, with as much incline as I can find...we have the terrain at least xD)

C • training 2

Spinning

The M-20 Long from the Flying Pig

Really not feeling well... My eyes are glazed over, I have such a stuffed nose that I haven't tasted my food all day :(

Spinning

My legs are feeling fairly tight, I'd like to do some rolling tomorrow, but very very light. I can't increase my blood pressure too much because I got a really light concussion. No severe side effects from that other than I'm just a bit off

Three swiss maps that Sofie had run on, I just looked at them on my phone.

Noticeable point: I will need to work on compass bearings up and down hills

I finished cleaning up my maps and organizing them. I reviewed probably over 20 maps, quickly picking out the hard controls and planning them out. It was fun switching from terrains super quickly, and made me continuously adapt to them for route choices.

I realized that one of my big flaws in my orienteering is that I don't yet know my abilities with climbing for route choice purposes. I'll have to organize trainings to fix that ;P

If anyone has links to hilly maps I'd be interested in checking them out! I've reviewed the first 20 pages of Swiss maps on World Of O so far this year ;P

Spinning

Reviewed miclaria's sprint map... I can see why it was hard, that's not like any kind on a North American sprint!

I also organized my maps and looked over them as each one was put away and reviewed route choices, picking quiet a few better ones now versus when they were made... No surprise there though :P

Spinning in early bird gym.

I feel sick and tired...

Spinning

3x500m excel(technical)
4x250m excel(technical
2xrolling start

Flushing out legs

Spinning
Dynamic Stretching
Stairs

I couldn't get my mind into the right state. I felt sick and just had a lack of energy, so my kick wasn't there. Not one of my better races...