Training Log Archive: Cat T

on the way to begin new job in Uppsala. has been a brilliant training camp, the best i remember in a long time. i wish i could have given it more! a bit crap being sick earlier in the week but the mountains were amazing and made up for feeling so off. now i will do some recovering and faster trainings before NORT, as well as taking some time to get used to my new job and home. lots of thinking about planning to do, but i will hold off that till after NORT.

C • new job 2

Feeling pretty shocking this morning, straight after breakfast and feeling all the hills in my legs from yesterday. couldn't really push to anything fast and head falling apart a bit at the end. pleased with how i was using the easier bits to look ahead earlier on in the course though, remembering not to switch off completely.

up to Lichtsee. thought i was dressed quite minimally in shorts and sports bra but found an old man bathing in the lake :-O last morning in Austria, Italy this evening...

On some amazing mountains in Italy, trying not to get dropped by the boys group or to cause self serious injury. out for longer but some boulderfields and scrambling. reached highest altitude of life so far, about 2400m :-)

inlcudes some jogging. always going to be a tough day today, not having got much nutrition in last day or two. okay for about 2km o'ing but then so so tired, dehydrated in the last hour too. granny gear all the way in the afternoon!

long distance training, mixed success. hit some controls well but not good on others, not holding my concentration or direction well. better routes later in the day after getting more used to 1:15,000 after all the detailed maps earlier, but really i wasnt running like a top level orienteer, exactly what is giving me all my nearly-good-but-screwed-it-up races :-/

in Italy. feeling generally better but food and drink going straight through me. so just some walking and jogging and drinking lots of water. one way of stopping getting so fat from too much Austrian food :-)

bleurgh, was planning another tiny jog this aft but after some time out surveying with the group i came straight home and slept instead. dont know whether its the same virus or something bad i ate but have been getting stomach pains and generally feeling a bit under the weather. hope another night's sleep will make some difference!

easy morning jog on the flat. saw a man in lederhosen herding some alpine cows :-)

various easy pace orienteering trainings on super technical rocky terrain. feeling a bit crap but better than yesterday, now feeling much better this evening. not so much energy though, really pleased with most of the morning but got tired and brain falling apart at the end.

throat a bit red and sore, will be fine for some easy orienteering later but no 7am mountains today :-(

... also no other training, feeling crap this aft! plenty of analysis from weekend and eating vitamins though