Training Log Archive: gg

Warming up

Eliteserie mass start long distance. 7th place, 2 minutes behind 1st and 2nd, but in a pack of 3rd to 20th (ish). Long and tough, was running at front for some, hanging just behind for some, and chasing for some when I missed. Ended up chasing as my pack missed at the end, and we had to catch up the big pack again. Finished strongly though.

Attempting to jog a little after. Sore quads

Nothing :)

Event: Elitserien/Silva Junior Cup Vimmerby
 

Warming up and jogging after

Eliteserie sprint Astrid Lingrens World. Cool area, nice race, shocking map. I lost 20 seconds on one control when I decided not to run though a clearly passable arch way marked as uncrossable on the map, and decided instead to run through a 'white' area, which turned out to be a green swamp jungle. The race was retrospectively removed from the Eliteseries as so many people protested. Was in 3rd place with 1 control to go, and made a 15 second error to finish 7th dammit. Oh well, had good speed and legs felt 'ok' after tuesday - could still feel it a bit but didnt really slow me down.

Gentle run from the club house

Carreras dos Relevos relay from the club house. Easy speed low key orienteering. Legs felt tired at first, then pretty good

Running to club house and back.

Just a little jog around Boson in prep for this evening

Cycling to the race via the bike shop for a new inner tube and the supermarket for a coke and a kanelbullar, and then back from the race in the pissing rain via Holmbergs place.

Long warm up around the stadium and out in Lil-Jansskogen

Very easy jogging with Holmberg. Legs quite tired understandably

10,000m on the track at Stockholm Stadion (Olympic stadium from 1912). Great venue for a race, even if it was pissing it down. Had a previous pb of 32.15 from a windy day on the road and I really wanted to destroy that. Decided to aim for 31.15 with lap times around 75 seconds and then see what happened. Started off at the back of the lead pack of 6 which quickly got away from everybody else. We were generally running around 74-75 second laps which felt pretty comfortable. After about 4km a couple of guys dropped off, and then another at 5. Another fell back about 7km with the pace still pretty stable. I then was able to run behind the lead guy in an easy 2nd place for a few laps. With 4 laps to go he started to pick the pace up, and I stayed with him till 800m to go. He started to open a little gap, and was maybe 5m ahead with 400 to go. Then in the next 300m he destroyed me opening around 30m gap. I had a strong finish though and just sneaked under the 31minutes which I am ecstatic about. My official time was 30.58,8, and the winner ran 30.52.
Chuffed with that :)
I was really worried about my calf before the race, and as expected it is tight now, but during the race it felt fantastic.

Lap times -

76.1
74.8
74.3
74.5
74.9
74.9
74.3
75.3
74.7
76.2
74.9
75.2
74.4
74.3
75.6
74.0
74.5
74.0
75.2
76.6}hit this split about 2 seconds late so next one is 2 seconds fast ish
72.7}
73.6
72.7
70.4
71.3

First 5km 15.36, second 15.22
Last km of 2.57

Edit:

Results are up here, and my time there is 30.59,08
Results

C • grats 3

C • now that is some seriously ... 2

3 hours ar the wall with Jonn Are. It's amazing what 3 sessions at the wall can do. No longer struggling with pathetic short climbs (relatively). Conquered my first 5c, and was pretty comfortable on back to back 5a and 5bs. Most cool was the uphill monkey bars. 2 weeks ago I couldn't do any - now I can do the first 5 :)

C • indoor or outdoor? 2