Training Log Archive: Hirppa

K-18 suunnistus

K18-suunnistus VI, Lahti / Hollola.
I had prepared myself to win this day. First shocking news were that this year, for the first time, the competition was done with a pair. In my case Jones V.
We did OK in the first map quiz and got to the forest in first place with two other pairs. First it was contour map in Tapanila. After that a mirror maps (which wasn't told) in Riihelä / Pirttiharju. I was the guy to go to the first cp and at first ran to the right direction, then back to the starting point and to the wrong direction, teamed up with Anatoli and he figured out it's a mirror. Off to the starting point again and to the right direction.
After that some street orienteering on a map from the map quiz. Swamproad, Mermaidpath, Juhani's street, Coociestreet, Forestboy's street and the last one at Backlandroad. We left same time from the mirror maps than two other teams but made an excellent choice to the second cp and the others were minutes behind. At this point I started to really push a bit harder and Jouni was all the time maybe 20m behind. I thought he was kidding when he shouted "I'm pretty sure the others won't catch us cause of our 4min / km pace". But afterwards from the gps I can see we really went that fast on the flats.
The last map. We thought there would be pretty much a straight line to the finish but oh boy we were wrong. Still a course to go which could've been a competition on its own. The 1st cp OK despite the hydration at this map's start started to kick in pretty hard. Next one we couldn't find though we were sure we're on the right hill (no one else saw it either). 3-4 perfect. To the 5th we left a one path early (wasn't on the map) from the powerline and were in big trouble after that. We located ourselves back to the map from the correct path and the foot of Kivikallio, went to the right direction but never saw the red strip (no one else either). We got so cold wondering that we decided to head towards the last cp. At this point we both started to get really tired. No real (water based) hydration for hours and 23km of running behind. We managed still to keep pretty good pace and finished first.
It's just that this year this competition didn't solve anything. It was just a warm up. Later that night we had a sprint in the dark with only matches as a light. We came second and thus we're the organisers for the next year K-18-suunnistus in Mäntsälä.

Route

C • Oisko 2

LS-37 season ending party at Hollolan Hirvi so no time for training.
Photos from the party.
Including a short "photo-video" of the season whiched I showed at the party.

Tomorrow the season's ending orienteering - the most important competition of the season - K18-suunnistus. Ima 'bout to win!

C • Olipa hieno ja tunnelmallin... 3

At Energiahalli.
I had shut down my computer and ready to leave to Energiahalli when a co-worker of mine realised our pdm-system will be updated tomorrow and thus gave me work for ½h. I've never designed anything so fast nor I have driven so fast to Energiahalli. Got to test my new indoor shoes for about half an hour.

Event: Yökuppi 13 Lahti Tapanila
 

Le Grande Finale 2010.

LIVE is on at 18:00 (17:00 CET). Mass start. Like it should be.
AP-Yökuppi thread
BT-online results
Home turf so my dot should go pretty much the optimum routes. It's a matter of legs this time.

Yökuppi 13, Tapanila, Lahti.
Maybe I should've kept my mouth shut in the above text. Optimum routes my ass... Legs though were in a good form so it could've been a good race. Especially in the beginning (on a 6min running leg lost 20s to Johan and Mikko). They would've probably worked better in the end as well but the constant mistaking led to depressed brains as well thighs.

I started the Yökuppi season with podium place in mind and it came out a disappointing 7th. Due to few injuries I could'nt get the full 10 competitions' points, but nevertheless a bad season for me.

One more to go. The season finale and the most important and prestigious competition of 'em all.

Since it's possible for Terkelsen, it's gotta be possible for me also: rest for saturday.

Monday run from Bullis with Sulttaani and Hämis.