Training Log Archive: OJIn the 7 days ending Feb 10, 2008:
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Sunday Feb 10, 2008 #
Running 45:00 [2] 8.0 km (5:38 / km)
Spent the last night drinking, eating and seeing in Rob's 30th. The left early for the flight home. Jogged round the Rivelin loop with Rob in the afternoon, feeling pretty spaced out. Great camp, thanks guys!
Saturday Feb 9, 2008 #
Orienteering 25:00 [5] **** 6.0 km (4:10 / km)
spiked:14/15c
Some more fast forest just down the road from our campsite. Ran it as hard as possible and avoided mistakes until I blew out near the end. Nice terrain but unpredictable prominent trees.
Running 40:00 [3] 9.0 km (4:27 / km)
Ran back from the training with Rob and Mike along a mostly straight, slightly uphill road in the sun. Got a good dizzy feeling going by the end.
Orienteering 1:05:00 [3] **** 10.0 km (6:30 / km)
spiked:16/16c
Finished the week (and myself) off with a course from the campsite on pretty rough and bushy terrain. Ran with Rob and Nails, taking different lines and communicating mostly in French. It was going pretty well until Nails tonked his toe on a stump and had to hobble back.
Friday Feb 8, 2008 #
Orienteering 1:15:00 [3] **** 13.0 km (5:46 / km)
spiked:26/29c
Reluctantly left the villa in Portugal and headed towards Seville and the less superior accommodation of a camping cabin. Ran a long course in very open sand dune forest with Mike, alternating legs and keeping a good pace up. Felt tired and needed the company to keep focused.
Running 30:00 [3] 7.0 km (4:17 / km)
Set off for a shortish run along the road to the start, but got picked up by a worried Shane after a while. Perhaps it was a bit further than I had anticipated...ran back with Mike and Rob.
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 #
Orienteering 1:55:00 [3] 20.0 km (5:45 / km)
spiked:41/44c
Headed West for some coastal terrain with scrubby bushes, ruined walls and amazing sea cliffs and blow holes. Ran a long and most of a middle consecutively with a brief pit-stop. Tried to concentrate on strategy and planning ahead - the map was really good and you had to be careful to pick out the small paths and gaps in otherwise impenetrable hawthorn. Pretty tired towards the end and cut short, which allowed Rob and Mike to claim a handful of extra controls. Damn it.
Orienteering 50:00 [4] 9.0 km (5:33 / km)
spiked:16/22c
Headed into Albufeira for coffee and a sprint course. Ran trains, with the added complication that the map had changed quite a bit and was never very good in the first place. Some paths were blocked, some of the promenade had been washed into the sea and some thin black lines turned out to be 50m drops. Running as a group made it a lot of fun nonetheless.
Swimming 5 [1]
With Mike's lead pretty much unassailable I reduced back to 1 swift length.
Wednesday Feb 6, 2008 #
Orienteering 1:35:00 [3] **** 14.0 km (6:47 / km)
spiked:42/47c
Drove over to Spain for a session near Huelva. The forest looked amazing from the road, but was tougher and rougher up close. Ran three loops from the car, first being shadowed by Shane, then shadowing him, then soloing. The hills felt tough today.
Orienteering 20:00 [4] *** 4.0 km (5:00 / km)
spiked:18/20c
Another map with scale issues. Ran a sprint in some beautiful, lightning fast forest. We made a start list and everything to make it more focused. I was rubbish and made some big mistakes. Mike ran a good time and Nails may or may not have done, but had no watch to time it.
Swimming 10:00 [1]
I thought I would raise the stakes in the swimming and just about survived for 35 lengths. Mike watched me floundering then embarrassed me by ramping it up to 60. It took me about an hour to warm up and stop shivering.
Tuesday Feb 5, 2008 #
Running 15:00 [1] 3.0 km (5:00 / km)
Morning jogging from the villa.
Orienteering race 42:49 [4] **** 8.0 km (5:21 / km)
spiked:21/23c
POM day 4 and a race that was full of surprises. The biggest one being that our 5.2km course was actually 7.6km and the scale was 1:15 and not 1:10. The terrain was pretty strange as well, almost entirely covered in bushes despite a map that was mainly white. Vague sand dune terrain and very tricky in places, I made a couple of bigger mistakes but it was enough for an overall win, helped by the fact that some of the Norwegians didn't race today. With a late start I knew all about the scale and map issues, but I felt sorry for Mike and Nails who were early starters and had a hard time working out what was going on.
Swimming 45 [1]
5 lengths today. But put to shame by Mike who raised the bar with 30.
Orienteering 45:00 [2] *** 7.0 km (6:26 / km)
Jogging around Castro Marim with Shane. Our route started into some of the most open white forest I have ever seen before dropping into a maze of clay pans. Shane jumped a wide ditch to land knee deep in sucky clay with his new road trainers buried deep in the mud, so we sacked off the rest of it and went to explore the castle.
Running warm up/down 20:00 [2]
For the O meet around the xc trails at the amazing sports facility in Santo Antonio.
Monday Feb 4, 2008 #
Orienteering race 1:08:49 [4] **** 15.0 km (4:35 / km)
spiked:25/26c
POM day 3, same area again and back into the scratchy thorns. I set off with the aim to race at 90% without mistakes. Almost managed it but got into a bit of a race with Wojciech Kowalski over the last few controls. Really good course with more adventurous planning than the day before.
Running warm up/down 25:00 [2] 5.0 km (5:00 / km)
Longish warm up jog and a shorter warm down with Rob.
Running 15:00 [1] 3.0 km (5:00 / km)
Easy jogging from the villa with Mike and Nails.
Swimming 35 [1]
Smashed out 4 lengths.