Training Log Archive: ndobbs

gash above my eye sufficiently healed to do a few press-ups with my heasd exploding... means I can probably bend over now too. Sneezing still hurts :)

forest around the apart and across the road - Stadskogen map. Well, also the Norby one - started from the Linne Clubhouse... 1:7.5 map, 1m contours, so a little bit strange. Made mistakes. Probably because I can't orienteer rather than because I was tired or due to the map or anyhting. Style of mapping (or maybe just the terrain) was very different to Nåsten on the other side of the fields... apparently it could be WOC sprint relevant... could be a tough/interesting race

still tired, stretched before after a 6 or 7 minute warm up run to the clubhouse. body needs r&r

to and from Nåsten forest, the map the apart is on.

damn bloody tired - all the training is catching up with me...

27 minutes hanging tape - one in the wrong place, on an unmapped boulder - i knew this but didn't find the correct one... despite relocatin accurately and trying again... didn't compensate enough for my original error.
then 28 minutes running the loop Alastair hung (collecting tape).

Then we did a loop, un-taped, in opposite directions. Died physically and mentally in a complicated, grossly simplified area - a lone boulder on the map was 3*3*3 with loads of stuff around it...

needed food and sleep and rest and recuperation. running back afterwards was really hard.

To and from Clubhouse, plus warmup/warmdown after the Test Båna

OK Linne Test Båna.
Didn't know the route so couldn't go at top pace, especially for the flat bit on the far side. Also, tried running away on the back "straight" but had to stop to ask directions :)

Can do 24 probably, 24:40 would get me on the Linne top-20 :)

to and from interesting bit of map (i.e. to the forest)
left around 11:50 - morning training, test run was evening, 6ish

Training with Andrew, Alistair and Tomas - the last is from OK Linne, the guy Andrew's renting the apartment from.

He set a course, we did half individually - two mistakes, not major... - and half together, leading alternately.

Good stuff.

Late lunch together with Jan Troeng (is name-dropping allowed here?)

Running with Alistair Brunton to Lunsen, and back in pouring rain... flooded roads... sodden... not going too fast...

orienteering Norra Lunsen map, SE from Uppsala. Northern end of the Uppsale meet map - week before Tiomila

so good terrain. Some of the time - maybe 20 minutes was spent going to and from "start". didn't count the gaps - we took breaks every four controls to meet up...

Myself, Andrew and Alistair.

reading the map reasonably well

headed off to do the 6k test bana... third of the way around came to a slippy rock face, decided it was dangerous and decided to slow down... fatal... or at least cracked my head off the rock and bled quite a bit, so decided to curtail the run. wound was deep but not serious... got it glued back together...

skipped the evening training - combination of rain, bandage and a bit of pain, together with wanting to run lots tomrorow, provide justification!!

Training with Andrew Brunton.

15 minutes run (on map) each way to and from the start triangle. Hung two loops and ran two loops. Kept it really slow to stay in contact. Only one mistake at the end. But when I say slow I mean really slow. Very technical area in places... actually everwhere, but varied. It is possible to orienteer quickly here, but I need way way way more training.

Smooth is tough. Living here for a couple of months would do no end of good!! Pity it's only a few days.

Eskilstuna weekend 3

missed out on chasing start bty 8 seconds... arsed up this race right royally. Winner ran 59. Should probably have come in around 85 if error-free...

seemed more technical than the other days, but perhaps just less concentrated. There was a zone of mid green orienteering. Happy with some bits... screaming about others...

will have to slow down, read the map more smoothly, then pick up the pace again.