Training Log Archive: ndobbs

Could have gone for a jog today but didn't. conference in the morning, boat trip in the afternoon, then cooking dinner for five... and eating :)

nothing like stewed rhubarb and whipped cream

C • Sounds good. 1

Past serious sickness, now at the serious tiredness stage. Got out of bed around lunchtime, felt reasonably good until I started walking in town, then exhausted. After I saw Boris to his bus I lay down on a bench for half an hour. Recovered sufficiently to show a lost Asian-American to her train to Kiruna, from where she was going to launch some balloons that were going to go to Canada measuring some particles on the way...

Then wended my weary way to the conference dinner (after only attending two talks in two days...) where I had a lovely meal and listened to lots of stories about my supervisor, since it was his sixtieth we were celebrating. Nice evening, good company and good food. Pity I wasn't drinking the wine.

definitely got sore throat today.
Missing: Jukola test today, Stockholm City Cup tomorrow, will I be ready for Jukola test 2 on Saturday?

How could I not have got it? Proper rest day on Wednesday with lots and lots of sleep? Not running on Sunday (at this stage it mayy have been too late). This work/run/sleep balance thing is a b**ch to get right.

C • Get well soon! 3

probably won't be running tomorrow... unless I can kill off the throat before it gets bad...

Back from my long, long weekend. Run-down. Just caught up on the main news story for the last few days:

A litany of horror.

Tour de Medelpad
Day 4

Retrospectively, I should perhaps not have run this. Verging on sore-throat territory.

Tried to run this reasonably well, despite being tired from the previous days' exertions. Obasen is swamped with requests today, so no winslipts, no runoway... yet...

1 - veered a bit right from the start, losing maybe 20s, then the control was up near the top of a fairly vague slope. Got to within 50m before I started hesitating, maybe another 10-20s lost.

2- good
3- rockier than it looked on the map. Swung a bit right to keep moving, then ended up having to cross a chasm, didn't want to jump because the grip on the other side wasn't assured and it was steep, so rather than retreat and go around, down and up, I made use of a fallen tree... survived... hesitant into the control - 10s

4-started way left... go back more or less on line, but then made my first proper mistake, bad visualisation, expected the reentrant to be higher and tighter, stupid. 1 minute total?

5 bad bad bad 1-2mins

6 good
7 ok
8 good
9 not good enough, downhill on a bland slope, hit a small hill (en route), right idea, but slow deciding I was where I was. 30s
10 sub-optimal route. too much green. nearly made a big mistake coming in.
11 good - apparently 3rd fastest split.
12 good, 5-10s choosing route
13 this was just stupid. I thought it was on the near side of a small col... but the col wasn't mapped, both contour and form-line were going the same direction... aggh 1min
14 guh

A good weekend of orienteering, good maps, terrain and courses. Should stand me in good stead, once I recover.