Training Log Archive: Torino

Long Distance Swiss O-Champs: we were running in the Jura and above the fog in beautiful sunshine. Easy O-race over meadows. The hardest thing was trying to keep track of the single trees and rough open areas, however, the controls were sometimes visible from far away. I truly enjoyed the area and the O-race, but at the same time realised that I was running with the pulled hand-brake. It wasn't a good "running" day with some back pain and leg tightness. And I only ended up being 22nd from almost 40 women in my class, many were way faster even though I usually would beat them. Oh well, it was a beautiful day out anyway.

Warm-up to the start going all uphill and as usual for me (and I like it that way) being a little short on time.

A little orienteering jog, tried to take it easy as I was planning to run an O-race the next day. Nice woods!
O-camp race for the kids, I shortcut and collected 2 controls.

Went to an O-camp from Sandra and Marc's O-club with "their" juniors to help with cooking. (I probably should put cooking as a new category on AP as it really involved some heavy work with those huge pots and quantities we were preparing. What intensity would peeling and cutting 11 onions be??) .
Did an easy jog up to where they had their training session and did a loop from there with the O-map alternating between slow Oing and checking out the map, helping some of the youths and a little faster Oing, but never really pushing it. Fun map to orienteer with.

Teaching my normal fitness yoga lesson with lots of back mobilisation exercises.

NW class with beautiful fall weather, hot temps: did the gnome-sheeptrail.

Went to do the Bremer 7k+ loop, expected to be slower as had back pain, but it went better the longer I ran. Ok time considering the fact that I am just starting out again.

My 3 Tuesday classes: did core conditioning with the Gymball and some leg and upper body strength exercises; I felt it the following day!

Teaching of my 2 Monday classes; did the Nordic Walking as a fitness class as it was raining cats and dogs (big rock- and mudslides in our region, several roads and traintracks got washed away; the Aare in Bern was close to flooding, it had raised 2 meters within the last few days, unbelievable).