Training Log Archive: pi

Day 5, the curse of Bohemia continues, skipped the third last control today. Have never been able to finish. 2007: too sick to run last day. 2009: did not participate. 2011: only ran last two days. 2013: skipped a control on day 3. 2015: knee hurt too much to run last day. Chase start and caught the guy who was one minute ahead after a third of the course. Ran together for most of it, but he missed 14 and I got ahead until 17 when I missed. Then on the way to 18 we were too far left, sort of towards 19, and we were just standing there trying to figure it out. At this point I was only looking at 19 on the map and just went there without realizing. Really thought I finished in 4th place and was quite surprised when I downloaded. Very nice course with a mix of long route choice and detailed rocks.

C • curse of Bohemia 1

Day 4, another control-picking in extreme sandstone, but this one in a spot with super nice terrain. Finally had a good race. Only control loss was 15 sec when I couldn't spot the flag in a deep depression. Running was perhaps slightly better. 3rd place, 1:14 behind.

Day 3, more of a classic route-choice course like the first stage. Started well in the first part of the course, but then took a bad route on the long leg to 6. Got stuck in a never-ending ravine bottom that was very wet, should have gone a bit further around on the road, perhaps 90 seconds lost. Then pretty good again until 10, which was on top of cliff in dark green. Very hard to understand the map in that spot and I passed a few meters from it without seeing the flag. Not the best control location perhaps... lost a over 3 min and then kind of lost the fight for the rest. 6th place, 15 min behind... oj oj oj.

Day 2, control-picking in crazy sandstone ravines. Very detailed and 300 m climb in 4 km. Hard to judge which route to take. Lost almost a minute to 6 when I went over a ridge instead of around. One other confusion on the way to 11 which cost 30 sec. Otherwise really good navigation, but a lot of walking again. 4th place, 3:30 behind.

Day 1, Bohemia 5-day. Fairly easy navigation today, but steep climbs as always. Only one mistake where I lost 90 sec on a long leg, getting sucked around the shape of the hill instead of cutting down to the road intersection I needed. Running though was really really weak. Have not been feeling great the last 5 days, sleeping poorly and feeling vaguely sick. Lots of walking it was... 9 minutes behind in 5th place (of 40).