Training Log Archive: Lizzie

Festning tour <3

Eklimoen loop with Marianne

Middle #5 from the winter controls at Høiås. Lovely evening out. Bit of a love-hate relationship with Høiås, the terrain is just so damn tough, especially this time of year. But darn it's a nice place to run, and so good to have on the doorstep. Will miss.

vs Sarpsborg 08 at Sarpsborg stadium

Lovely stadium, can't believe we get to play 3rd div in it (in front of a huuuuge crowd of maybe 40).
Warned coach prematch about my ankle, but coped OK on the nice artifical turf. Lasted fine until just before halftime when I could feel it tiring and weakening. So agreed with the coach to come off after 60, which was about right.

Match wise we were well outplayed. Dunno how many of the S08 1st team girls were on the pitch, but we never had a chance to win. Held our own for the most part, despite two undeserved penalties against us, but only had a handful of proper attacking chances.

Jog around the silver mines before packing up and heading back to urban life.

Up Store Ble after a windy night camping down near the carpark. Found a reasonably sheltered (and very beautiful) spot for the tent, but the wind got stronger through the night, not weaker as forecast.
Headed straight up into the wind, icey cold on top but found some rocks to stop behind to admire the surroundings. Unfortunately not the day for a top tour, so cut the loop and came down the next valley to the more sheltered lower slopes. Still plenty of nice scenery and even managed to jog the last 5km.

Exploring the silver mines above Kongsberg. (Or above the mines rather, not in)

NM Relay, HSK1 1st leg
Lucky to squeeze into the first team after Ida got sick and Bodil turned down 1st team. Still, was keen for the job in my last foreseeable NM race.
Long first leg and found myself a little back in the queue. Super heavy terrain and every time I stepped out of line to try and push ahead, I'd find myelf losing rather than gaining places. Dawned on me 3/4 of the way into the leg that there was no splitting to #1 either, so the 70% in front who weren't reading their maps were going to get away with it. Grrr.
Splitting to #2, but I slightly overshot mine, dropping 30s, the back in line for #3&4. Sigrid came past here and I took the chance thinking together we had better chance at running our way up the line. Unfortunately, #5 was the only control with significant splitting, and I had the long far left control. So instead of moving up, I found myself way offline and downhill, losing 60s to correct :(
From there it was a physical battle through he heavy terrain and marshes to the finish line. Came in 2mins down on Andrine, but 22nd(!) place. Eve pulled us up to 11, and Kine up to 5th, but very disappointed that I didn't put us in a better position from the getgo. On the other hand, its more than I could have hoped to manage 4days ago!