Training Log Archive: Shminty

Bit longer than anticipated! With Will, Kris, Charlotte, Sasha, Ralph and Peter. From the long arena in Tesserete up Denti Della Vecchia. Cool forested/rocky ridge, especially in the mist but did limit the views a bit. Saw a Brocken spectre.

From the hotel, around and up the hill in the lake south of Caslano. Great views from the top to Lugano.

Monte Tamaro

Mountain day. Ran up from the col at 1390m. Bit of snow on the northern side. Then across to a summit to the south and back round the mountain on a cool path through a really steep beech woodland.

Great views in all directions.

Cruise round some of the spectator race after the middle final. For some reason they took us into some shitty bit of the area at the start which they hadn't used for the main race.

Got attacked on the run in.

EOC Middle Qualifier
20th +4.45

37s off qualifying

I think it was a fair performance. No expectations going into it as I was only running as no one else would take the spot if I didn't.

Was an early start and as soon as I finished thought I would need to be a minute quicker to qualify and so it turned out. Probably lost 3-4mins. Most frustrating was on #1 as it was a fairly straightforward control but I just misjudged which re-entrant I was on which cost ~45s. The other one that springs to mind was 11 where I took a bad route and lost a minute. Got fortunate on a couple of tricky controls as well with other runners going in / coming out.

Managed to attack most of the course physically even with my road running legs. A bit nervous after I rolled my ankle flying down one hill but by then had at least past the worse rocky sections.

Better than my last EOC middle qualy where I was some way off qualifying. Though still doesn't tempt me to (try and) run more forest internationals.

Cademario
A late call up to the middle qualy tomorrow. Thought I better go and have a look in a Ticino forest!