Training Log Archive: silje

Long run with Oda to Ulmizberg

2-man relay. Ran in team with Tone. I ran the first leg, and decided to follow my plan to the first control eventhough the others went differently. My route choice was not the best, but not so bad as it turned out to be since there was threes lying everywhere, blocking my possibility to move forward. Fighting through it at lost more than 2 minuts, on something that was bad map and not bad orienteering from my side. Went on and hoped that the others had the same problems, which was the case for some of them. But to the 3rd control it was forking, and my control was lying on a cliff. First I found the other forking, but didn't mind. Then I first made a parallel mistake misunderstanding where this forking control was, but then I understood, and tried again. Searching the areas around my control without finding it, and with the feeling that something was not correct. So I again thought I had misunderstood the other forking control. Running downwards back to find a track and met Tone, who confirmed that I was where I thought I was. Tried again, but without finding it, and ran all the way back to a big track, following it and tried to take the control from an other side. Also here I felt the map wasn't to easy to understand, but saw the flag. Really frustrating to loose 10min (?) on a control point where the map is not good. Such a control point would never have been used in a competition, but still it distroyed my chances in the training race and also the fun of it. There have been a lot of bad maps in this area this season, and making a lot of huge mistakes is just not fun, and really not motivating. It makes you loose selfconfidence. To day I did run technically good exept of this control, so I can forget about this mistake, that is good!

Last training in France for this time

Middle Distance training on the newest neighbour map to the WOC terrain. Difficult, and slow, ran ok, but made two mistakes where I didn't choose a safe and good route choice, and hesitated.

Sprint intervals in Annecy. This training was supposed to be on friday afternoon, but was moved, so since I ran the long distance yesterday quite hard, I had to take it a bit easy on these intervals. Felt like I got a much better flow in the orienteering and running. Less hesitating and more control.

Walked the 2nd training, which was one part with only counter lines and one part with only vegitation and paths. Funny training eventhough I walked

Long distance training, ran hard without pushing. Missed the first control with 1.30min, and the third with 3 min, the rest was quite good, only minor mistakes, but at the last loop I "hit the wall" and lost quite sometime on no energy and no consentration. Was beaten with 9 minuts of Tone who won, which is ok since I didn't push.

Went to Chambery with the sprinters, and took a look at the WOC-sprint-city.

Sprint in Annecy, very long sprint. Ran really bad in the beginning. After finding the first control I ran 90 degrees wrong, and didn't realize to fast. To the 3rd I didn't find the entrance and out of the 3rd I read to the wrong control. From there on I made few or no mistakes.

Sprint final, ran much better, but was beaten with 50 sec of Elise and Betty, lost 20 sec on my route choice and speed to the 2nd control, and again 30 sec to the 7th control. Satiesfied with my finnsih, making no mistakes in the control picking in the old city part.

First training in France. Felt like I knew what to do and how tto handle the terrain, but it was still demaning and it was important to stay focused the whole time