Training Log Archive: ndobbs

côtes d'orsay
from 430
two easy loops, then ran the uphills in
1:40; 1:38; 1:36; 1:37

happy enough, stomach/heart/lungs working really hard upon reaching the top.
with one week until the irish champs not feeling too bad. should be fitter of course... long easy hill session sunday, then a few easy/fast runs next week...

laundry, then out past chateu de méridon, choisel, to near senlisse, back!

nice long slow

Third day of the SW,
chasing start. Carsten won again in 10140, 4 mins ahead of J-MP, despite losing a minute and a half on the third control (fastest split, me!)

he runs way too fast too consistently

i actually made a real mistake on the second last control. Otherwise it wouldn't have been interesting...

Caught the guy 30 seconds ahead of me just past the start flag (he was wondering where it was, i presume). ran pretty hard most of the way. happy with the training here and the races, even if nothing was particularly technical

Day 2
Carcans Maubuisson (SW of)

This was tough. No reason to slow down to look at the map until maybe the 11th control, and again the thirteenth, and those two only because i made small mistakes... again physical until the end. nearly died from running too fast several times... starting to find out what elite orienteering is about perhaps :) finally beaten marcus :) but still 11 minutes behind Carsten (4minutes off 2nd)... Carsten got almost alll the fastest splits, 20 seconds lost total...