Training Log Archive: Joost

Travelling back to Belgium

Event: Tiomila 2009
 

Training before tiomila on the official trainingsmap together with Desmond (Thomas ran on his own).
We ran mainly on the roads (because of Desmond his ankle) but also checked the forest, to be better prepared for tiomila.

Warm up before running 2nd leg for OKS on Tiomila

2nd leg for OKS on Tiomila. After Thomas his great race (arriving 28th on the first leg!), he gave the map to me. As they ran much faster than the expected time (7 minutes) and the speaker was talking about the pre-warning when they had already arrived Thomas had to wait around 5-10 seconds on me as I was too late for the change-over. This costed me already around 8 places as it was a big group (my mistake). I ran a good race without making a big mistake, two times I arrived at the wrong control but immediately knew where I was so lost maybe 1 minute because of that. The last five controls I was running almost alone and this costed me a lot of time (around 3 minutes I think) as I was exhausted and had to navigate myself. No mistakes however but just not the speed any more and not the best route choices. Compared to Thomas I had the longer forking. I arrived as number 65 so I lost a lot of places but as I was passed by two trains of stronger runners this was no surprise. I am however satisfied with my race as I did a good race without real mistakes and because I trained as much as I could this winter for this first goal. I had the 94th legtime --> good. Our team ended as 92nd which we are really happy with as we aimed for top 100 --> mission accomplished!!

C • good work! 2

Easy running with Kim in the 'Provinciaal domein' (parc). At the end of the training I did four accelerations of around 100m.

Easy running with Kim in the 'provinciaal domein' and also on the finnish track in the parc of Kessel-Lo.

Competition in Trolhättan (Vikingträffen). It was a middle distance race. Again the terrain was really nice and tough! The marshes were really heavy and physically I felt tired in those marshes after four days of running orienteering races. However, I ran a good race without any mistakes of more than 25 seconds. I think I lost around 1'20" in total so if I wouldn't have been too tired a really good result would have been possible. Nevertheless I was really satisfied with my race: good technique, control all the way, also in attacking the controls and no advantage of other runners. I ended 24th on 74 runners. Good general rehearsal for Tiomila where I will run 2nd leg in first team of OKS together with Thomas VDK (1st leg) and Desmond Franssen (7th leg).

C • Belgare 1 6

Warm up and down before and after the race.