Training Log Archive: Torino

First orienteering meet of the season for me (having done 2 bike-O meets already). I was motivated on this warm, sunny and beautiful day.
The area was in the deepest Emmental over many hills and valleys through a beautiful landscape to get there.
The orienteering went quite fine, chose trails whenever I could. Did "only" 2 mistakes which I was not aware at the time but only at home studying the lap times. Came in 3rd (out of 12) with the 3 of us within 2 minutes and a gap behind us. Was really happy with it. First time in the F65 (:'/) and we beat all the F60s running the same course ;-0).
Because of our warm and sunny spring the briars were already up and a real nuisance for me (I can no longer leap over them but feel like a hippo finding my way through them.

Needed to get out because it was a beautiful, sunny and warm day; went over to Sandra and Marc for a Bar-b-Que at lunch, then helped a bit in their new garden and biked back home late afternoon.

Visited Véronique in La Chaux-de-Fonds who is mending from a broken femur done during cross-country skiing in Northern Finland (surgery there and medical jet home) and picked up her touring bike for 2 more planned bike tours this summer/fall in France. I was too late to bike from her home, so I biked down to the train station and took the train to Les Hauts-Geneveys. Took mostly small forest roads, some paved roads and even some single tracks for the way home. I didn't wear enough and was pretty cold when I got home with frozen fingers from all the downhill breaking.

Felt bad all day with a headache. But as it was a beautiful day, kicked myself out the door. Slow start to Rosie in the same town to deliver a bike-O stand then going on up the vineyards to Sandra, but all was quiet in the house, I guess she had a nap. Did a loop through the woods back home bc I had another meeting with a friend at 4 for an English(for her)/French conversation(for me) lesson.
The headache didn't really go away all day. Bah.

C • Yep, we were asleep. 1