Training Log Archive: falcon

Re-ran the club champs middle and sprint courses in Sorlandsparken while Holger and Sandy did some control picking. Re-acquainted myself with Sorlands terrain. 10min/km is not bad here. Good courses and lots of micro-routes to find the fastest way. I can't say that I did exceptionally well at this today. Legs still heavy from the weekend.

Jukola: 5th leg for KOK2. Started out in 58th and dropped one place although I finished 2 secs behind 58th and handed the map over before...
Overall, tried to have a safe run after the mistakes being made through the night. In the end, ran too cautiously and had a lot of hesitations. I missed a couple of routes by trying to avoid the marshes. I had thought the rain and the thousands of runners before me would have churned them into a hopeless mess, however they (apparently) weren't too bad. Some legs went well though and I have to be satisfied for my first effort this season in scandinavian terrain.

Event: Jukola 2008
 

Jogged through the Jukola model event area with Rasmus, Bobach and Daniel. Nice area in general although the green slash areas weren't so nice. Definitely a working forest.

Jukola training on training map Hyytiala with Pascal, Baptiste, Daniel and Holger - easy jog. Legs felt heavy after faster training yesterday. Made a couple of mistakes on direction but generally did okay. Felt rusty and 'behind' on the orienteering on some of the more technical legs. Also when my focus wandered. Need more map time...

KOK training on Raakkykangas. Two O-tervals with mass starts and a two-man relay. Made a mistake on the first control of the first O-terval, then again on a boulder in green (got off on direction, didn't follow pack to this common control), otherwise did pretty well. Felt fairly strong despite it being 2am in my home time zone. Second interval started with relocation followed by 1.5k forked course. 2-man relay, paired with Baptiste. Daniel and Nicholas won in the end though, we finished third or fourth of the five teams.

Warm-up, jogs between intervals and to start of next exercise, etc.

Easy jog in the evening on neighboring map to our accommodation: northern part of Hyytiala with Pascal and Damien. Bushy in places, super fast in others. Some subtle contours and lots of opportunity to get re-introduced to the Finnish grey mapping. Apparently this is a research forest for the University of Helsinki.

Travel day. Spent a looong day getting from Vancouver to Kristiansand. Started with the overnight flight from Vancouver, arriving in Heathrow. Short connection there to Oslo. Then 5 hour layover while waiting for flight to Kristiansand. Tempted to take train into Oslo to kill time but ended up napping and reading in a comfy chair that I found. By the time I got the bus from the airport, it was midnight. Found out that Eirik had twisted his ankle and Vegard had stepped on some glass and so KOK2 was short a warm body. Sooo, back to the airport tomorrow morning for 7:30am flight to Tampere...