Orienteering race 1:42:00 10.0 km (10:12 / km) (injured)
Jukola, 2nd leg. Usual crappy Jukola run.
First half went OK, just some knee poin in the very beginning but it went away after couple of minutes. I guess I did not warm up well enough. Then got tired and hamstrings and calf began to cramp. My going wasnt strong but I was proceeding somehow untill to the 4th last I missed all tracks and walked/joggen in long grass with lots of debris and while climbing to the hill where control was I hit a rock with my knee, the same knee I have had problems with lately. Then lost focus and limbed arounf a while on that hilltop without spotting the control and apparently without much sense. I must have been very close to the control but never saw it, easy to miss the flag in a rock hole if you don't know exactly where you are. After some minutes I climbed down from the hill and climbed up again from other direction and spiked it. I lost several minutes there. Knee pain went away and I could jog fine to the exhange. I guess I had used all my luck and something like this must happen to make statistics reasonable. And it all happened in Jukola, as usual.
I went home stright after my run, took a shower and went to sleep. Next morhing I could not walk with my knee, I barely could stand with it.
Fine course and terrain, it just wasn't my day. Went out 130 and I was well below 100 before the mistake and exhanged about 130. I should have been about ten mintes faster with a average & normal run. Well, it happens.
I ran wihtout gps, unfortunately. I decided to tun with O top with long sleeves and I don't have gps pocket in that shirt.
Running race 9:58 [5] 3.0 km (3:19 / km) ahr:179 max:189
3000m time trial on track.
km splits:
3:16
6:37
9:58
Ok run, but first 300 meters of the last lap were too slow. I started sprinting only 100m before the finish and I had all too much strength and O2 left at finish line.
First sub 10 min 3k for a long time. I guess previous time was in a cooper test run at Saarjärvi about six years ago.