Training Log Archive: Ralph

Tired legs in the morning for the first time is a long long long time, a good feeling. Ran hard on the course and felt good. Made 1 big mistake and 2 small mistakes.

Big mistake where I did not take enough care from my attackpoint into the control -25, 30s. 3 small mistakes - 1 reading to the wrong control which in the end turned out to be a really good attackpoint but probably cost me some time, 1 where I wasn't exactly clear waht the feature should look like and ended up slightly high - 5s, and 1 on the first control where again the feature and the general area did not look like how I expected. More care needed here to get into the map and do the basics right.

Winsplits says I lost some time on some other controls but I don't agree with it, I did exactly what I wanted to do, maybe I just was not running quite as direct as I should have been.

Foot felt ok - I can feel there is something not quite right but it is not giving me any pain at the moment. I was even confident enough to manage a warm down. Quite tired physically - hopefully I can get this back in time for Smålandskavlen

Shadowing (Chasing) the juniors around Rissne. Quite a technical estate for Sweden, lots of black green areas over grass.

Out from Hellasgården with Doug onto Nacka. Running a couple of controls from Naturpasset 2010 so no controls out. Decided to run together and take different routes, not running especially fast but enough speed to make the map reading challenging. Compass direction let me down a bit and I found it difficult to read the contours in places.

On the bike in Grondal. Hot

Shadowing. Trying to practice what I preach of course. Good to be able to "try" and map read without having to decide on a route to run

Melkes Minne open course. No pain in foot. Aches in other places.

I GOT IN THE FOREST WITH A MAP AND FOUND SOME CONTROLS.

Pre-work