Training Log Archive: Old Daniel

Watched Vennla -really good and interesting occasion. On feet a lot and knee worse

Orienteering training at Tannilanvaara, again knee not to bad, navigation ok but slow. Decided not to train again

Travel to Eastern Finland, opportunity to train but did not take it hoping rest the best startegy

We flew to Finland and stayed at Tommi's house and then went to a local evening event. Although knee had been painful during journey it eased up and was ok during race -was not ok afterwards. It seemed that fortunately running in the soft forest is not loading the knee too badly -but big dilemma in terms of whether I should run in a team race. I certainly would not have run if I had been in the UK

Informal event was really very high standard and clearly had good local support. Quite a contrast with out Saturday events etc.

8 x 2mins with 90 secs on the Downs. Nothing exceptional during session but inside of left knee was excrutiating later on. I had felt this before but not anything like this extent. No chance of going to BOK run

Purdown and Frome Valley run - effort to do pre-Jokola physical training complete in the last month 'ticking over' now.

Warm up

BOK urban race around Harbourside east and Temple Quarter. Flater and intrinsically easier that yesterday but course gave plenty of variety and challenge. I made a complete dogs breakfast with either mistakes or legs where I had top ten spits (19 out of 28) -13th of 99 winner 35.47
no 1 -looked at control did not see it went away and came back -(30 secs)
no 2 big banana (-20 secs)
no 6 started to go to other underpass and needed to come back (-30 sec)
no 7 went passed (-20 secs)
no 14 took route n of line, ran fast, but went wrong at roundabout into fire station - took a while to resolve, not optimum! (-120 secs)
no 18 -thought I could not get through -diverted and actually you could (-15 secs)
no 27 -chose complex and slow route (-15 secs)
I really could have done much better with more control -respecting difficulty