Training Log Archive: silje

Swiss Long Champs in Gurnigel. Very nice terrain and fun course, really enjoyed the race, but it was though. Made a very bad route to the 13th control (4min loss to best split), and did some smaller mistakes in the control circles, but the rest was good. Didn't have the best legs, after 4 days in a Conference in Milano, so didn't expect to be in the fight for the top positions which the big gap up to Simone Niggli also showed. But I was suprised to be so close to the rest of the girls. 7th position more than 16 min behind.

The race was organized from my swiss club OL Norska, and I helped organizing from 08:00 in the morning to 17:30 in the evening (minus the time I needed for my race). Very well organized, and good courses. Was nice to have time to help!

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Conference in Milano from 25.-29. august. A lot of standing around and full program, had little energy to train as well, and kept it little.

2x2 min just to run some meters a bit faster

National orienteering race in Switzerland. A bit tired in general, and didn't manage to push. Ok focus the first 7 controls though, but after that I am taking it easy. The runability was extremly bad in some areas, especially in the last part of the course, and here I lost a lot of time, because I didn't want to risk anything and had to turn and find another way several times.

Running with Dominique over Gurten

Abend OL

1 x 4 min + 2 x 2 min with 2 min rest + 4 x 1 min with 1 min rest + 8 x 30"/30" + 16 x 15"/15". Series breaks of 2 min

Long run

Long run with Bettina

Abend OL

3 x 8 min hill intervals with 2 min rest

Agility and sprint training with Bee

with Bee over Gurten

Travelling back to Switzerland

8 x 3 min with 1 min rest (hills)

5 hrs hiking in the scottish Highland with my parents.

running with my dad. Did some jumps as well

with my dad from Fort Augustus

Morning run together with Hausken, Emil and Torgeir

WOC sprint final. 8th place 1:10 min behind Maja Alm which won with 40 sec margin. 20 sec from medal, 14 sec from top 6.

Knew what to do and looked forward to get started. Excited to see if they had put up fences or not. The plan was to give my self time to read each leg before I start it, and keep the focus on the leg where I was. A good plan, and I opened as planned very controlled to get into the map before running away from the start triangle. My race was mistake free and very good, but I do two routechoice mistakes (3rd and 12th control) which costed me 20 sec to the best split which mostly was Maja Alm who ran faster than me, so maybe I lost somewhere between 10-15 sec on those to legs put together. My race, if looking at the splits, started out good but not having very fast split times, and then from the 6th control and until the finnish I have very many good splits. At the arena passage I got passed by Maja Alm who started a minute behind me, but she was clearly faster and I did not really manage to follow her. But I pushed as hard as I could without doing mistakes, and lost 10 sec to her on the last loop. I think I planed my race good, being able to keep my speed or even increase it compared to the others the 2nd half of the course.

Satisfied with a new personal best individual WOC result, and the distance up to the medals is not big, which is very motivating!

I was a bit disappointed that the course setter had not used any extra fences, keeping the terrain as it was - making the sprint much easier than it could have been - running fast got even more important than solving technical problems best, than if the terrain would have been unknowed....

Easy running in the morning - then cheering for the norwegian sprint relay team which took an impressive 2nd place.