Training Log Archive: Squashy

Woke up and throat not as bad.
Didn't bother with a morning or afternoon early warm up run

10MILA - 2nd leg

Willy ran first and did ok. I guess he is disappointed but well inside the top 100 and with Regborn smashing it and effectively making a joke out of the results from first leg this was good enough. Relay running is about no one person trying too hard or trying to be special. I felt confident we was still in with a chance of a good team result.

Waiting at the map change I noticed a lot of good lads coming back down and a some of older/solid orienteers come in high up, comentry also talking a lot about mistakes so I realized this was even more technical than expected. That cheered me up even more.

Set off and orinteered pretty well and felt pretty good. Felt I was spiking my gaffles with one small 30s miss at no3 but feeling really confident. Did my own route to no5 but got to the control with the same group I left no4 so no gain/loss but saved a tough climb.
At no6 Oskar Daniels took the lead and the groups pace lifted, I stayed comfortable and let there lamps light up the terrain and features I had already planed to use and carried on spiking controls though the gaffles.

Doug caught me up at the bottom of the really steep rocky hill to no12, I felt like I was try to climb up step ladders and Doug the half man half goat jump up it. But I wasn't the only one struggling to follow him here, he left a few out of breath finns with me. (Doug smashed this leg and was really impressive, good lad)
The group got a gap on me into this control (12) because I lost some confidence mid leg and wanted to be correct. Then this group (now a big group) was too far right to no13 so I got there with the front few.

To the next control (14) I picked what I felt was a safe and good route so felt confident, I noticed a lot of people eye balling each other here and I thought "Josh beech you have been the safest technical orienteer in this group do what you feel is right" and so far everything I did has kept me in the group even if I was not with them 100% and they seemed to run faster physically than me. So I did my own route again but as I came to the circle I saw the tail end of the group leaving it and never quite got back to this group.

Somewhere over the next controls I swapped to from being quite aggressive to being a bit too passive. The speed seemed to slow down (maybe now I was totally alone?) and remembered hearing "it's really tricky in the end" made me happy to slow down a bit too much.

I remember looking at the rest of the course at one point around here and think "good pretty much heading back now ... but I'm loving this not sure I want it to be over"

I started to find some aggression agian and then bang ... it went black. My lamp stopped working, no panic just turned the reserve on. Turned out the reserve was pretty shite, couldn't make out the floor but could see my compass so just held my compass up until I got to a small cliff and at the bottom was a control, checked the code and it was mine (compass kid strikes again) haha. It felt pretty dicey down to the field then into the finish. The last field before the last control wasn't fun, I could see the ground better in the open but couldn't work out what was rock and what was mud so was strange to put my foot down on something I thought was hard and it was wet mud or the opposite. Haha


The next few hours was great sat up chatting and laughing with the team. Great team spirit. I just couldn't be arsed going to bed because I felt I might missed something funny.
I'm really happy and proud of the boys though the night!! Nearly everyone did there job and nothing special which made it special.
Unfortunately there was some problems in the day that cost us what we hoped for. But it was no ones fault!
We all need to learn. The club/managers/selection team need to learn change and improve. The boys as a team/unit need to learn change and improve. And the individual/runner needs to learn change and improve!!

Jukola will be fun!!!
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Map
http://www.stockholmcitycup.se/doma/show_map.php?u...

Woke up with sore/sharp throat and feeling tired.
Didn't tell anyone.
Want to run 10MILA.

Set off but wasn't feeling it so went to the shop to pick up lunch instead

Urban tribes coaching

With louise by the lake.
Feeling better than earlier

From train to school 20mins + wu with class indoors

Concentrate wasn't great

with cat in shite weather when I got home after a long day sat in oslo airport

Wu + WD with cherry

OK Moss event south of Oslo

Really good terrain! A lot more detail than expected

I made two big mistakes. Need to plan a lot more thoroughly in this terrain, feature are big and map is simplified but still a lot of detail on the map. And I was quite often running and picking stuff up on the ground not on the map

Matt gave me a brick he knew didn't work

Strømmen with matt
Nice!!

Been really tired since jk (unsurprisingly) did a few jogs in york for fun and enjoyment rather that for training. now traveling back to Stockholm

Also had a sore left knee since rånäs, I'm sure it's just tired so a day without a jog can't hurt

Turn round strensal from green hut end

Minimal

JK relay

Not too happy with myself, made a 30s mistake at no4 then the course was basically a run back with only 2-3 controls that made me think like I an orienteer. But it was still quite fun.

Unfortunately disqualified on first leg.

We finished 4th and its worth thinking about because Cherry ran past the control on the bridge (that he mispunched) so didn't actually gain anytime missing a control out.
I feel I could have done better and gave Matt more of a gap in last leg, I lost 35-40secs that I could have easily saved. I make mistakes save as everyone so I don't mean I should have run perfectly, but even if those mistakes wer halfed I think an extra 20secs would have really helped matt on last leg.

But 4th is a good result (if we got it). The race was fun and looking forward to next year!!

JK long

This was a good indication that my shape is ok, this terrain was much too fast for me at the moment but I kept quite a high effort level for most of the course. Definitely felt I was trying to race.

But my orienteering was poor. I really struggled with the map, I felt really uncomfortable on a bad map and wasn't sure what to do, had a chat with Matt after and came to some sort of conclusion that if you want to run well on poor maps you need to practice on poor maps. The was even a point where I thought "how much orienteering can I do with out looking at the map?" Haha.

Jk middle
Ran alright to pretty average, 2nd lad to finish our course and tracked up so the results probably not totally fair?? But my performance is what I'm really looking at.


Jk should have 2 elite classed. Although I would have been in elite 2 at least it would have been fair

Event: JK 2017 - Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering
 

Jog with louise and my long lost bruvva from the premier inn

On the map south of where we was stopping in Crawley

Wasn't sure if I was going to have a day off but then realized I forgot to get some stuff I need for the jk. So ... run to the shop just before I left for England

Urban tribes

Brantbrink
Jogging -- still feeling tired.

Jog with Team Flat
Feeling really tired. When I was thinking positively it was ok but when I was grumpy it was rotten

Rånäs first leg

Good fun. One guy got away in the first gaffle so thought I was leading for most of it. Made a big mistake in a vague are with bad map (lots of people struggling here) felt anoyed and frustrated until I realized I was with all the same teams as before so didn't actually loose positions.
Finish 4th

Feeling tired

No wd

Has anyone ever had a successful grymnatta??

C • That´s.. 1

Club training. Peg relay

Wanted an easy session because I've been tired this week. I saw that no1 had a long bonus loop if you got a peg, there was 5pegs, I was 6th at no1. So has to do all the other bonus loops and knew I was in the lead so was good to run easy but had to focus quite hard with a purpose

Urban tribes coaching

Urban tribes coaching
Still feeling tired

School session
Shadowing Christian

Feeling tired after the weekend

Some small relay near 10MILA embargo

Ran 2nd leg but Linus had a bit of a mare on first leg. Saw a few people but no one to run with.
Took a long wu before the start and was working really hard made one miss of 30-45sec but was 3.5min slower than Rhys and Georg. A bit frustrated by that

It was fun though. We was quite far down and no last leg runner so I was able to push the orienteering and be very aggressive.

Proper easy with Rhys at näset after the drive home.
Feeling better for it

Göteborg camp day 2

Mass start with Pan Åhus
On a old map and was having some trouble in the last third
In the lead for a lot but finish 3rd.