Training Log Archive: ndobbs

Event: Jämsä-Jukola 2013
 

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twice up the ski-jump-bump, or maybe the bump beyond. Seems to be a few seconds under a 4 minute loop when not being lazy. And 890m. Next time I do it I should get the altitude data... but map says it's about 40m climb.

Edit, oh, so it's really only 30m, and the map says it's only 25m :)

C • altitude 1

töihin ja töista, apparently ;)

Riina must be cool: Nevertheless I decide to go on for a while and see how it goes. "HAVE A NICE DAY" the control shouts sarcastically when I ran off. Fuck you too.

Woooooo

Jukola training. Mass start with a bunch of HS guys. Got dropped on the way to the first, but saw some lights leaving 2... took a bit of time to get my route choice sorted and start motoring to 3... stopping occasionally to clamber through fallen trees... 4, I lost confidence in the circle, thought I might have gone a cliff too far, so lost 30-40s, silly... 5, 6, 7 pretty damn good... a bit of a weave the first half of 8 plus 20s coming into the control, 9 I lost 30s in the circle after nailing it nearly but not quite, just a touch to the right. 10 I should have been a bit straighter.

I can orienteer! This was sooooooo much fun. And despite the lots of training my body was happy to run. Took a long time to stop smiling afterwards.


The downside... mäkäräinen... evil, blood-sucking... as if mosquitoes and horseflies weren't enough.

The course was 5.7, best guys dusk-ran it in 40some, Eikka did 35 or some such in daylight.

C • confused 5

työhön

C • töihin 1

work to Lammassaari and Kuusiluoto and to alepa to home. Cool running across the, umm, sea.

Saw three sheep and a bunch of cobweb trees, except the cobwebs were full of caterpillar-type things. Oh, and some rare cows. Eastern Finland cattle, from a distance. And a pikkulepinkäinen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird-cherry_Ermine

Suunto Games,
Extract from D21E course. Plus the run to the start.

Nice to run on offset-printed 1:15 for a change. It'll make 1:10 seem so easy :)

Some bits of the woods were nicer than others, but good fun, body felt ok too, ran up a couple of hills without caring which was a pleasant surprise.

In the area which had been cut, so semi-open with lots of branches on the ground, the marsh could be seen from far away, carpeted as it was with white flowers.

Out for an hour or two giving blood, destroying control stands, unscrewing, nope, untorxing control units, etc. Walked for much of it, so not logging much.

Should have sprayed myself again before heading out. Or all the controls should have been up on bare rock hilltops with fresh breezes.