Training Log Archive: Rosstopher

Running over to the clubhouse with Boris. Sun!

There was a mixed relay for the Uppland juniors, organized by Dorothe and for us slightly older types there was a chance to do a 4 leg one man relay from the clubhouse. 4 times 1.5k each, in the nearby fields, forests, and houses of Norby. Tricky with the fences. I ran fairly well, choosing good routes mostly. Overran one faded flag when my brain zoned out.

Pushed hard on the last loop, when I saw that I was just behind Johan, but not enough to catch him. Glad that I was working hard though, as Sam was pretty close behind me.

After the training, a little cool down with Elin and Elisa, calves were tight from the high intensity stuff.

Shower, soup, and then Theirry gave a presentation to the juniors. I'd never heard the talk in person before, and I was very impressed at how polished and engaging his talk was. He did a good job of capturing the attention of the crowd with exciting videos, funny statements and of course his story is pretty good to begin with.

Results maybe splits to come later, but it's tough when everyone is running the maps in a different order.

A momentbana, which is a course that moves from training focus to training focus so as to give a lot of mini-trainings combined, in the afternoon. A perfect opportunity to take some inspiration from the lecture we just had and apply it to full speed no mistakes out in Nåsten. Nope. I guess I was a little brain dead from the weekend so far and on the very first control I read up as down and thought the cliff was facing the other way.

Attempted to start fresh and really get things under control, but as soon as I got into the corridor section I struggled quite a bit to stay in the lines. The contour only went okay in bits, but badly in other places, and the long legs were okay but not as crisp as I had envisioned.

Glad that it was training and not a race situation :)

Long Training out in Åland, organized by Simon and with lots of people out to enjoy the sun and warmth. Lisa gave me a two hour time limit, so doing the whole course was a bit too ambitious. Cut off the 9-10 loop which was just about perfect for length.

Was running with Johan and Cat in the times where I could stick with them. Near the end, struggled to make sense of the map in a couple of areas, brain getting tired I suppose. Overall, feeling pretty pleased with the training.

Sam came back from Stockholm and wanted to go training, so I joined her for a trail run in Nåsten. A lovely day, and a nice chance to hang out and chat. Met a lot of people on the trail today, including one guy I know from running with Upsala IF that I called by the wrong name, accidentally and then it was too late to correct when I realized my mistake. Tired afterward.

Nice to get a session of Friday Innebandy in, after a few weeks of being sick or busy. Today, only 8 people were there which meant lots of playing time and no rest. Starting to get a better feeling for passing and still we were getting really beat. Really like playing with this group!

Running late, no surprise, so as I was biking to the clubhouse I passed the group heading out to intervals. I asked them where they were headed because I hadn't checked at all what the plan was. But since they told me to meet them at Sten Sture, i was pretty sure it was going to be a hill workout.

Caught up with them on the far side of stadsskogen and continued on to meet the rest of the group at the base of the hill. Did a few drills and then started a set of 6 hill intervals gently climbing up from the river to the monument via gula stigen. Not a lit track and I had not brought my headlamp but it wasn't so dark as to be dangerous.

It felt hard tonight, and I wasn't keeping up with the leaders at all. Still, with our club there is usually someone to run with and tonight my challenge was to fight alongside Cat, Inga and Håkansson. Inga beat me on every single one, but she had to work pretty hard on the last one. Got a bit faster each one, and my legs were feeling better at the end. About 2:15-2:20 on each climb, and a focus on maintaining speed as you crest the hill and continue on the flat and downhill bits. Nice training.

Then, to satisfy my hunch that my way back to KG was fastest, I ran back alone :) Quick trip to the store to pick up stuff for fika tomorrow, then dinner and a trainingsgroup meeting.

Simon put up this Onsdagnatt training on the training bank and it looked fun. ~8k on a map without trails. Navigated well on the first control and then fought my compass a lot. Got off my line on the second control, but recovered and was in contact with the map at the edge of the green, but then counted hilltops wrong and went too far. Continued to fight my compass and the green messing up 3 and 4. 5 relatively straight forward, and 6 was okay, just read the yellow hillside wrong. 7 I fought the compass a lot, and never quite got back to being relocated again. Realized that I needed to head back so that people weren't forced to wait for me. Headed back on a rough bearing, caught a trail that was going my way and cruised back to the car. Timed perfectly. More night time Lunsen is needed to get the required confidence.

Quickroute

Also, this map was scanned in with my new fun toy, an IRIScan Mouse which has a little scanner window underneath a normal mouse looking device that scans and stitches together an image as you go. I like it.

C • Scanner mouse 1

Corridor training with the club tonight. Feeling more lively and ambitious than normal. Took the lead near the beginning and kept it until just before the 13k cuttoff when I missed the small trail into the forest and had to turn around and come back. Pushed hard to catch up with and then keep with the group until about Hogbyhatt, then for a bunch of the rest it was just Inga and Erik A and me running behind the leading group of three. Erik accidentally missed the turn near the end but Inga and I fought on, and tried to keep our speed and maintain a good running form. Super fun, super tired afterward.

It was also mardi gras, which in Sweden means Semlor (it is only appropriate to pluralize this, because one should do their best to eat more than one) and so we could have a special dessert with our soup tonight.

Quickroute

C • Oh my god semlor 4

Rockgympa. Pretty tired beforehand, so I lay on a mat instead of playing innebandy at the start. Liked the new music in the mix today, Johan has been incorporating flash dance song choices :)

Still a bit of a cold, so I wore my glasses, thinking that I didn't need to put my fingers near my eyes to put in my lenses.

Felt a lot better and more awake after rockgympa and so played innebandy afterward. Really fun to play and no one wants to defend against the incredibly sweaty guy :)