Training Log Archive: nic.

Both warm up and warm down were spent pretty confused about which track I was on and wishing I had a map.

5x 4/1. The first 4mins was nearly all uphill and the second was nearly all down, classic Switzerland I'm slowly realising. Felt relatively ok, although my ribs/back/chest struggle so much on downhills! Glutes and hip flexors felt it most. Pretty alright tracks around Chur.

Took the women's B final course for a run with the plan to push myself real hard up the hills. Had a bit of trouble getting to the start triangle because I had to sneak around the public start withhout looking at my map and then confused myself trying to anticipate where they would've started from. Things didn't really improve once I started the course though, didn't pay enough attention to my map on the way to 2 and lost loads of time. Improved a little from 4 onwards but I just wasn't orienteering well, struggled a bit making sense of things. Happy enough with how my 'hills' session was though I guess, threw in a few extras afterwards to avoid the finish chute.

Took Warrens map and did the M55 course on the JWOC middle qual area. So so so fun. I was a huge wimp on the slippery downhills and no better on the steep ups but my Nav wasn't too bad. Just need to be a bit more attacking I think

20mins jog from Tarasp to the edge of Scuol where there was a little loop I could do some intervals on. Then 5 mins of drills.
Warm down was 5ish mins on the flat but my legs didn't have enough in them to climb all the way back up to the accommodation so I just jogged the more gentle bits

6x 2/1 and 6x 1/1. Found a track which was better than the soaked oval but it was made of bark chips so it was super soft and there was quite a bit of a hill in there as well. Probably made the session better for me, very tired legs after! Happy to get it done before the rain too

Jogging to the start for an enter on the day sprint course after a super exciting day as a spectator!!!!! Absolutely died in the sprint, had been in the sun all day and it was steaming hot in the buildings with a heap of hills. Kinda lost motivation and didn't really concentrate on the nav at all, oops. Finished and sat in a fountain before making my way back to the accomodation which was again super hot and hilly. Got there though! Not feeling 100% today, just a bit sniffly. Rest day tomorrow and hopefully I can get a good sleep tonight.