Training Log Archive: schnitzer

Night MTB around the New Forest, wiped out a couple of times, neither my fault. The first resulted in one of my friends lending me one of his lights so I could actually see where I was going, the second another friend crashed into the side of me. Came back very muddy.

Jog around Canford Heath with Elisabeth.

Hiking on the Snowdon range with Elisabeth. Very windy today.

Saw some fantastic mushrooms but they were the kind I couldn't really pick in front of a judge.

Elisabeth and I got up early and drove up to North Wales.

Hiking on the Glyderau range today.

Running ill wasn't so bad, not a very bad cold at all. It did make me a bit worse though. Not running the final and only reserve in the relay.

Been feeling a bit dodgy last few days, and it got to the point today driving to the SM middle that I realised I have a cold.

Some road, some Nacka trails and Elisabeth showed me her secret training which turned out to be drills. Found one or two of them quite difficult and I could definitely feel that they had worked some areas that hadn't been trained much.

Redeemed myself today with just one significant error but saying that it wasn't a small mistake - lost 3 minutes. Felt pretty good today.

SM long qualifier. Terrible run - threw away loads of time and came properly last.

It's about time I ran on the 1:5000 map of the North part of Paradiset. Absolutely fantastic terrain, fantastic map and just simply fantastic orienteering. The best in fact.

Really well planned course - something I don't expect at these Wed lunchtime old boys events.

Was navigating well and running a very similar pace to Tanja Ryabkina and her club mate until I lost 9 minutes on one control.

Really nice forest today - was used for WOC in 95 apparently. In a similar part of town to the night champs, not quite as runnable but still very. Quite difficult sections of small hill tops where you had to stay in contact throughout the leg... which I didn't on a couple. Lost around 5mins and that would have been enough to be the fastest last leg time out of all 4 Ravinen H120 teams which would have been really nice.

Felt physically fine, able to push hard and still read the map so it seems that weird period is behind me now. Must have been fighting off an illness or something. Otherwise I still have a problem with my left achilles but it's not stopping me from training or competing. However, a little stretching to stop it from developing any further would probs be a good idea but I can't be arsed.

Collecting controls in after last night's district night champs. Nice terrain, ultra runnable. Felt good up until I was carrying 8 metal stakes.

Flaten loop. Ran this bit fairly hard then...

...took this bit a lot easier - no point wearing myself out for tomorrow, I am last leg for Ravinen 4 in the H120 class of the district relay champs so very, very important that I am fresh, hmm.