Training Archive: driesvdk

Orienteering race 3:18:00 [3] 32 km (6:11 / km)
shoes: icebug

Saturday night we somehow had to celabrate our victory so like all Hamok-runners did we drank some Chimay... rouge - blanche et bleu.
9AM we started our race.
about 1km of warmup.

22km would become about 30km in real distance. First 2 controls we didn't take the best route choices but after that we were pretty focussed and didn't really miss any controls. The speed wasn't as high as the day before, one of the reasons was that we had this big advantage but in general the legs weren't as good as the day before.

After 3h07 of running we finished and were very happy that we had finished this though and very long race!

Winning this race was pretty emotional for me too because the last time I won it was together with my Father in '96, this was about 6 months before he passed away. I'm sure he would be very proud of his sons. Would like to dedicate this victory to him.

Now some rest and for sure I will enjoy the 1,5L bottle of Chimay "Grande Réserve"

C • Earned 8

Orienteering race 2:40:00 [3] 26 km (6:09 / km)
shoes: icebug

For some weeks I had been looking forward to this race: The Karrim'Hoc. I would run together with my brother Thomas and we were well prepared.

We were amongst the favorites, but had to fear some nice teams like Vis-running mate, Mellebeek-Timmers, Oeyen-Deferm and the brothers Vangasse and Goubau.

We arrived at the start just in time together with Oeyen-Deferm and Mellebeek-Timmers after 1.5km and a good 10' of warm up.
We decided to take our time to draw the complete route on our coloured map instead of starting immediately with the black-white copy with route on. 2nd day we noticed that it took about 5 minutes to do that. Than we missed 2nd control by 3-4 minutes and 4th control by another 2 minutes. So after 4 controls we probably were about 10' behind the leaders. Had to work our way back to the lead.
Control 5 they informed us that we were in 7th position. Could catch up 3 teams in the loop C B A and at the 9th control they informed us that we were 4th, about 4-5 minutes behind the lead.
11th control... suddenly we saw 3 teams: Vangasse-brothers, Goubau-brothers and Oeyen-Deferm. Didn't took long to get rid of them because we felt really fresh after 1h30' race... In the last hour we made the difference with the other teams. During the race we were thinking about Vis and running mate, but apparently they did not start. It's a pitty because we were prepared to compete against this strong team.

We were very surprised that our advantage to the 2nd team was 19 minutes. This meant that we could start with this advantage in the chase start of the 2nd day.

spinning 45:00 [2]

rather intense spinning session.

Note

rest day... and some news from Finland!

I have been in contact with the Finnish Club "Lappeen Riento" for several weeks and now we discussed possible training camps.

I will probably do following training programm:

April:

1.4.-5.4. Training camp, including one competition
15.-18.4. Tiomila qualification races

30.4 -2.5 Tiomila, Finspång, Sweden

May:

13.-16.5. Training camp, Kerava, southern Finland, including one competition.

June:

17.-20.5. Jukola

I really look forward to do all this together with The finnish guys from "Lappeen Riento". They are a motivated group and I think we can lift eachother to a higher level.

Note

Another note today...

I went to "running planet" to check-out my running style and according to that buy new running shoes.
Interesting to see myself running...

Eventually bought new pair of "New Balance MR 850 ST"
Was told that these last about 1300km.

running 1:26:00 [2] 17 km (5:04 / km)
shoes: salomon

testtraining for Karrim Hoc.
Prepared my back pack like necessary for the race (pretty happy with the weight) and went for a longish run.
- loop at rivierenhof
- wolvenberg
- brilschanspark
- nachtegalenpark and back home.

4 * 200m at the end.
pretty good feeling, at the end a bit painful muscles but not that bad

C • ;-) 1

XC-skiing 15:00 [2]
ahr:140 shoes: NIKE AIR STRUCTURE TRIAX10+

XC-skiing 15:00 [4]
ahr:170 shoes: NIKE AIR STRUCTURE TRIAX10+

went to the gym in the morning again,
10 minutes on the rowing machine and 30' on XC-skiing machine.
I liked this XC-skating machine!

rowing 10:00 [2]
shoes: NIKE AIR STRUCTURE TRIAX10+

running 50:00 [2] 9.5 km (5:16 / km)
ahr:135 shoes: NIKE AIR STRUCTURE TRIAX10+

arriving late at home.
Still found time to do a workout.
The weather conditions were perfect actually. 5 degrees - no rain.

Cross trainer 30:00 [2]
ahr:145 shoes: NIKE AIR STRUCTURE TRIAX10+

arrived in Chesterfield very late.
Was in a hotel with a nice gym and pool.
could only do 30' because it was closing.
jumped in the pool for 5 minutes too