Training Log Archive: Rosstopher

Stigtomtakavlen. A 6 person relay run by what seems to be Peter Öberg's extended family. It was pretty cool to see the Swedish Superstar putting so much work into making the event run smoothly, though the most amusing part was the little shop that sold locally sourced meats and sausages with a little sign saying that these sausages were Peter's favorite!

The relay started on Saturday night when Carl set out on the first night leg for my team, and I crawled into bed at about the same time. We had to get up quite early in the morning, so I only saw the results while eating breakfast the next day. Carl, Pontus, and Simon did all the hard night-time work, and then Mattias Millinger was 4th, taking it easy on a post-injured leg and I was 5th. A last minute cancellation meant that we didn't have a 6th runner lined up, but Inga was interested in doing our last 9k as a second race, and so we could get an official time.

I set out onto the 11k course just moments after the three top teams sent out their 6th leg runners. There were lots of people in the forest, but I didn't have many people running in the same order as me.

I had a very good race for me, with only a few small hesitations. I had a serious mistake on the 22nd, but recovered pretty well and was certainly quite pleased with the effort when I crossed the line. Inga had missed me in the spectator loop, and so she wasn't waiting in the changeover zone when I came through, but Sam went to get her and we tagged off without too much time lost. We beat the mass start, which was quite cool.

Splits

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WOC 2012, here we come!

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Much like Sally Brown struggling with "New Math," tonight OK Linné had another attempt at the new Rockgympa. A full crowd tonight and a more streamlined set of hurdle drills to work on. The drill where you duck low and weave in and out of a line of people seemed to be the most challenging for most of us, really forcing a good hip flexibility. Also the explosive drop jumps are really fun. For these, we stand on a bench, and then in one smooth motion drop off the edge of the bench, landing on our heels as we simultaneously push off from the balls of our feet to jump vertically up and over a limbo stick. We're only doing a few so far, I bet it would be easy to get injured trying to do too many too soon.

I had a little high-knee show down with David tonight in the last session :) I was foolish to challenge him, as he is unstoppably fast on that drill. 40 seconds of our speediest high-knee bouncing makes for a tough session.

Some intense innebandy tonight. People were feeling pigg tonight for sure, and there was a lot of rough housing and joyful playing around in the gym. 4 on 4 became 3 on 3, and then 2 on 3... and Christopher and I ran ourselves ragged trying to keep up :) fun times.