Training Log Archive: Lizzie

The Oslo crowd came down the coast for a training day away from the Oslo snow. So of course it snowed heavily overnight. Haha. But then, jokes on me, the one who hasn't grown up running in snow. Ha. I'm hopeless at estimating, but I'd say 20ish cm of fresh loose snow in the terrain?

2x short distances. Mass start with a good group of girls. Felt how heavy my legs were as soon as we hit the terrain and I lost the group of Kine, Silje, Mariann halfway to the first control. Solo effort from there on, and no helpful trails through the fresh snow. Came into the 3rd to last just behind Kine and silje, but dont think that meant anything with the gaffling. Then I had an extra control, so well back at the finish.

Was last of the group back on #1, so minimal rest before #2. Stuck on the back/in the tracks of the mini train almost to #1 this time. Has Siri behind at #3 but she snow plowed away to #4.

All in all happy with the session. Wasn't physically on form but pushed as I could, and navigationally I was on point, aside from a glip on the last control on the first loop.

Hopefully T-dawg is satisfied with my snow report? Can also report it was fluffy and cold, and decent snowball forming conditions.

C • Adequate 1

Didn't fancy running in the sleet/snow so headed to the gym. Kept myself entertained by watching the car-park inspector driving around. He actually gave the car parked right outside a ticket. So that was exciting. Disappointingly I finished my session before the culprit came back, so didn't get to see their reaction.

Preeetty boring.

Running from home as on høiåsvakt this week. Dodged the worst of the rain, but was wet enough with all the left over snow-slush. Not as bad as up at høiås though. That, and the massive downpour of rain, meant we had about 20 people at høiås the whole evening...

C • Details... 2

WU and some drills

Club intervals at the track 2x1500, 2x1000, 2x800m

Really struggled for pacing tonight. Was kind of swapping the lead each interval with Kjetil, with Jim doing his usual and gliding effortlessly past on the last lap of each interval. When I was ahead though, the first lap was always too fast but when Kjetil was ahead it felt just a teensy bit too slow. I dunno. Of course, the best pacing was when I forgot the others and my watch and just ran. Simple eh?
Having said that, the effort seemed high but the times a bit slow tonight. Guessing it's the weekend still in the legs. Or the fact that I was regretting my afternoon coffee already after the first interval...

Rests. Walk-jog-stumble-gasp

WD

Agreed with Bodil to do an old training from December on Thuletjern this morning. Snow arrived overnight but I sucked it up and headed out anyway.
No Bodil by the time I started, but figured she must be delayed with dropping the boys off, so headed off.
Absolutely beautiful to be alone in the silent snowy forest! The session was short intervals but I just ran it as a middle. Very slowly. Partly due to the snow, part due to the weekend and part due to starting in the technical slope, with no tapes. Wasn't much more than a walk-jog for much of it. I thought things would speed up once out of the slope, but it was wet, cold and tough going through the snow laden undergrowth. Cut the course at #13 after a couple of controls where my lower legs were painfully cold and my concentration was slipping. Happy to get out and enjoy the forest though.

Bodil arrived as I was getting changed. Turned out a car had rear-ended her (or rather, the car behind her and then her) in the dodgy as driving conditions, delaying her 1.5hrs and leaving her car without a rear panel :(

Today I had to lead club strength. Good god, it was terrifying. Definitely don't have time to sing along to the soundtrack when you're busy trying to remember what the next exercise is!
I'm sure everyone appreciated doing the exercises a little slower and with slightly longer breaks though ;)

Skipped football training. Smart.

Sverigepremiaren Stafett
2nd leg with Kine on 1st and Hedda on 3rd.
Headed out in 12th spot after Kine got caught out by the organisers putting out 111 and 110 in the opposite places from where they should have been. Unfortunately 110 was a gaffled control in the women's relay, so roughly 1/3 of the teams got screwed over on 1st leg...the controls were set right by the time 2nd and 3rd legs got to it.

Anyway. I got sent out with Jarla on my tail and a few teams in the minute or two infront. Jarla stayed 3 steps behind me for the first 3 controls before coming past on the track to 4. We took a different route in to 4 and on to 5, but then I went past her on the gaffled #6, never to be seen again ;) Much like yesterday I felt a really nice flow going in the sand-dunes. The topography made sense and I felt for the most part I was picking the right lines through the terrain. Was to-ing and fro-ing a bit with Vendula Horcickova, until she had a short split at the far end of the course. Caught up again on the long leg back up toward the coast, only to lose 20s on the next split and a compounding 20-30 by not spotting the best route through the baches (sorry, summer houses) on the next leg.
A fast final loop near the arena, where IFK got back past on another short split (grrr), and into the hand-over in 5th place, 1.30 back from 2nd.
Hedda had a great run on last leg to bring us back in 7th.

Very very surprised that the relay hasn't been invalidated due to the mixed up controls though. The only reason I can think of is if nobody actually put in an official protest? And the only reason I can think of for nobody doing that is that everyone thought it was so obvious that it didn't need a protest? I dunno.
All in all, Lidingo were deserved winners, the 3 of us had good runs (Kine up until that control anyway), and the weekend was great fun.
But. I'm disappointed that having a result list seems more important than having a fair race. Kind of expect it, and will deal with it, in small-race NZ or Aus, but not the opening event of the Swedish season.

Course on livelox: https://www.livelox.com/Viewer/Sverigepremiaren-st...