Training Log Archive: ndobbs

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C • It really is a bad advertisement 1

Went to bed around 10pm two nights in a row. The result... sore throat, not too bad so far, but still...

to work

There were about a hundred of us from HS helping out at the district sprint champs last night, for a bit over five hundred competitors. I put out two controls and then sat on a wooden swinging bench for the evening watching them. And doing maths, and chatting with Veli. And took the two controls back to the CC afterwards.

To Kustankartano and from there Viikkiin.

AM sprintti H21 (from yesterday) course

Met up with Tommaso to run this after work. Nice course. I wasn't too sharp, nor running super-fast. Heavy shoes and heavy body.

Gates around controls 12,13 were closed, opening and closing them after took a bunch of time and broke what rhythm I had. Fun anyhow, but how am I going to run fast in a week?!

The big debate over at http://www.suunnistus.net/fi/chat appears to be about why the course-setter tried to kill us.

At least in his notes he said big stones, big cliffs, dangerous, big stones mapped as small stones, giant boulders mapped as large ones, dangerous slopes, dangerous cliffs... with some other words in between.

Maybe I just chose good micro-routes, but I came out alive.

The principal complaint was control 65, our number 10, directly above a bunch of cliffs, and the reasonable routes to 11 all entailed getting down...

I suspect the green stuff in the lake yesterday was algal bloom, which may explain my neck rash today.

proper orienteering day, for those who haven't found it by other means -- http://vimeo.com/105388084

the historical PraPP video is also fun.

SM pitkä
B2 finaali

Routegadget!

WRE, but it turns out only A and B1 finals get points, sucks for almost half the internationals (me, Tommaso and Will). Oh well.

I ran pretty well, but not fast enough, had energy at the end (not that I wasn't tired after). Had a headache pre-start from yesterday's racing, but that disappeared on the way to 1.

It was a little foggy to start with, just enough to hide the sun. There were cobwebs everywhere, gazillions of them, in places the woods turned almost white. Pretty out. And coming up from three to four as the sun burnt through was magical.

Anto caught me 2 minutes en route to 6, I'd caught a guy from Ulvila at 1 already, and kept meeting up with him... three of us went to 7, 8 with a wobble (my biggest control circle mistake - 25s), then we took different routes for the long leg to 9. Anto was the fastest of us, nominally. I took the straightest line, playing to my strengths... coming into the control, Ulvila guy arrives as I punch... I stay higher the shortish leg to 10, and spot Anto halfway heading to 9, what?! Good down out of 10 to the trail, but then I stay on the trail instead of cutting where I ought, lose 30s here. Stop for water to think about the second half of 11 again, Ulvila passes, as do two others. I decide to go road as well, pass Ulvila, get control, think I see him as I leave, he coming from below. Push to 12, hit it well, scoot around the slippery bare or mossy rock, manage not to fall, to 13 then down the hill to 14 (same leg as yesterday) and finish, happy.

As always, should be doing it faster and with fewer hesitations.

http://www.mysport.fi/mysport/my-o/index.php?optio...
91.5% success, 79% routine speed. 5 mins errors, which I don't believe, I just ran a couple of legs too well :) Eg, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, no mistakes in the circle... 6 I lost some time en route, bu I wouldn't have said a full minute... 5 I did waste 15s at 4 deciding my route.

C • WRE 2