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Sunday Apr 30, 2006 #
Running 30:00 [2] 3.53 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Warm-up/cool-down
Orienteering race 41:08 [4] *** 6.7 km (6:08 / km)
15c shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Tiomila 2006, OK Linne Team 2, Leg 8.
So this was my first Tiomila. It began with an 8:30am gathering on Saturday morningto catch the bus the club rented for the week-end. The three-hour bus trip was uneventful, and we arrived at the parking lot and made our way to the tent city erected just for the week-end in an old quarry that has been converted a to a stadium for motorsports such as dirt-biking and the like. As we entered from the top of the quarry, we could see hundreds of khaki-coloured military tents, lots of club-owned private tents, and other large wind shelters constructed by the organizers. As many teams had gotten there earlier and already had fires going by their tents, this scene looked like something out of a history book - a mighty army on the eve of battle. As many people know, Tiomila is The Event of the year for many Swedish clubs, and so club members turn out in droves to support the teams, cheer, help out and soak in the atmosphere. When we got to one of the several tents that were already erected for us by some of the Linne families that had come earlier, we found a lunch of pasta with ground beef, served in gigantic cauldrons, already waiting for us. At least a dozen Linne members, old and young, were running around making sure everyone had enough food while already setting up the tent where team 3 runners and early leg runners for the other two teams would spend the night. Mind you, this did not just consist of hammering in some stakes and throwing a canopy on top, but involved a series of overlapping traps on the floor and a carpet of soft pine branches to make the shelter's floor a bit more comfortable.
Soon after lunch, a few of us piled into a van and drove over to a summer cabin located just off the edge of the map that one of the club members (Fredrik Sundin) happened to own and offered as free accommodations for team 1 and 2 runners (Fredrik himself, running for team 3, stayed in the shelter at the event center instead of his own cosy cabin.) At the cabin, we got warm, relaxed a bit and, at 2pm, tuned in to the radio broadcast of the start of the women's Tiomila. Around the middle of leg 2, we drove back to the event center to watch the events unfold live (in the slight drizzle) or follow the moving GPS dots on the map shown on the giant screen overlooking the whole arena. It was great to see Linne's 1st women's team remain in contention throughout and exciting to cheer them on to (i believe) the club's best-ever 6th place finish!
One sad note about the women's relay was that Sandra was unable to run due to the back injury that has bothered her ever since she came to visit me in Uppsala (hmm, i hope there is no connection...)
Immediately after the women's teams were in, we had dinner, again cooked by the Linne supporters, followed by the meetings of the men's teams. I expected the team leaders to talk at great length about strategy, goals, thoughts about the competition, but instead most of the meeting was spent discussing logistics (who needs to wake up when and so on) with the only orienteering-related advice that was offered being "check the control codes", "take the right map", and "don't lose your SI".
As evening approached, most of the later-leg runners for teams 1 and 2 piled into cars (also provided by club supporters) and drove over to Fredrik's cabin for a short session of trying to figure out where the courses went (in retrospect, Erik Jonsson and Mats Troeng pretty much figured out the way the shorter legs would look). After this, came an attempt to sleep. There was about a dozen of us stuffed into the cabin and, though we were safe from the noise and cold of the event center, we still had our nerves to contend with, and falling asleep was a bit difficult for me, at least until it got dark and i moved over from Mata's blow-up mattress to an actual bed.
I woke up well before my 3am alarm, got up, had some breakfast, and joined Rob Hart and Jan in listening to Tiomila radio, hoping to get news of our teams' performance. This was the middle of the Long Night leg, and things weren't going too well for either of our first teams, so we sat around in silence for a while and then packed our stuff and made our way back to the event center just around the 5am sunrise.
From the organizers' predictions and our own best-case scenario thinking, i had prepared myself for a 6-6:30am start time, but realized when we got to the event center that i wouldn't be running until about 8am. It was a bit tough to hang around the event center for so long but still maintain some focus, but at least it was hard to get bored, with constant updates of action from the forest and lots of old friends to bump into and chat with. Additionally, seeing some of our sport's greatest stars (Swisscheese, Andrei Khramov, Jan Troeng) smiling and relaxed before their pressure-packed races somehow helped make me a bit less nervous as well.
Finally, my turn came, and my 7th leg runner, Olof Borell (nicknamed a very original "Boris") ran down the finish chute, having picked up a few places to move us into 117th at the exchange.
I must say that the race itself was the most anti-climactic part of the whole event for me. I went out on my leg totally along and didn't really see any leg 8 runners apart from a couple looking totally lost somewhere in the control circle. My legs felt ok right from the start, but never great - probably a common phenomenon for thousands of under-slept Tiomila runners, but i managed to keep a pace i was happy with throughout the race without losing contact with the map more than once or twice. My goal was to try to be cautious in the circle and "sacrifice seconds to save minutes". I did that reasonably well, probably squandering about 2:30 around the course, in the form of several 20-40 second mistakes. Towards the end of the course i was overtaken by Jan (on leg 9), who was setting a brutal pace and putting good distance between himself and a chasing pack, desperately trying to hang on. It was inspiring watching him fly through the woods at a speed i could never match, and even manage to offer encouragement as he sped by me. All in all, i was 57th on the 8th leg, about 22% behind the best times, which i was reasonably happy with given that i ran alone the whole way. I handed off to Rob Hart in 105th place.
After the finish, it was time to watch and wait, first for Mats Haldin's exciting (yet not unexpected) victory for Halden, then for Mats Troeng to anchor Linne 1 to a solid 24th place finish (below expectations, but still a very good result), and then for Erik Jonsson to run an excellent last leg and put Linne 2 into 85th place, 10th among clubs' second teams, and just one place back of local rival IF Thor's first team.
Lots more waiting and cheering at the finish, the award ceremony, clean-up and packing and then, just like that, Tiomila was over and we piled onto the bus for the trip home, with the talk already turning 48 days ahead, to Jukola.
This first Tiomila was an awesome experience for me, mostly as a festival of orienteering (though with some old-timers grumbling about the influx of foreigners [none of the top 10 anchor leg times was run by a Swede] and about runners changing clubs every year). Additionally, it was great to see Swedish club spirit on display, in particular, in my own club. The volunteers and club supporters who came out and helped with accommodations, food, and hundreds of little things, helped make this an unforgettable week-end for me. Finally, as always, thanks to the attackpoint crowd watching at home - it's cool to know that someone is following your results!
All the results are at http://www.10mila.se/2006/online/res.shtml
The map should be up tomorrow.
So this was my first Tiomila. It began with an 8:30am gathering on Saturday morningto catch the bus the club rented for the week-end. The three-hour bus trip was uneventful, and we arrived at the parking lot and made our way to the tent city erected just for the week-end in an old quarry that has been converted a to a stadium for motorsports such as dirt-biking and the like. As we entered from the top of the quarry, we could see hundreds of khaki-coloured military tents, lots of club-owned private tents, and other large wind shelters constructed by the organizers. As many teams had gotten there earlier and already had fires going by their tents, this scene looked like something out of a history book - a mighty army on the eve of battle. As many people know, Tiomila is The Event of the year for many Swedish clubs, and so club members turn out in droves to support the teams, cheer, help out and soak in the atmosphere. When we got to one of the several tents that were already erected for us by some of the Linne families that had come earlier, we found a lunch of pasta with ground beef, served in gigantic cauldrons, already waiting for us. At least a dozen Linne members, old and young, were running around making sure everyone had enough food while already setting up the tent where team 3 runners and early leg runners for the other two teams would spend the night. Mind you, this did not just consist of hammering in some stakes and throwing a canopy on top, but involved a series of overlapping traps on the floor and a carpet of soft pine branches to make the shelter's floor a bit more comfortable.
Soon after lunch, a few of us piled into a van and drove over to a summer cabin located just off the edge of the map that one of the club members (Fredrik Sundin) happened to own and offered as free accommodations for team 1 and 2 runners (Fredrik himself, running for team 3, stayed in the shelter at the event center instead of his own cosy cabin.) At the cabin, we got warm, relaxed a bit and, at 2pm, tuned in to the radio broadcast of the start of the women's Tiomila. Around the middle of leg 2, we drove back to the event center to watch the events unfold live (in the slight drizzle) or follow the moving GPS dots on the map shown on the giant screen overlooking the whole arena. It was great to see Linne's 1st women's team remain in contention throughout and exciting to cheer them on to (i believe) the club's best-ever 6th place finish!
One sad note about the women's relay was that Sandra was unable to run due to the back injury that has bothered her ever since she came to visit me in Uppsala (hmm, i hope there is no connection...)
Immediately after the women's teams were in, we had dinner, again cooked by the Linne supporters, followed by the meetings of the men's teams. I expected the team leaders to talk at great length about strategy, goals, thoughts about the competition, but instead most of the meeting was spent discussing logistics (who needs to wake up when and so on) with the only orienteering-related advice that was offered being "check the control codes", "take the right map", and "don't lose your SI".
As evening approached, most of the later-leg runners for teams 1 and 2 piled into cars (also provided by club supporters) and drove over to Fredrik's cabin for a short session of trying to figure out where the courses went (in retrospect, Erik Jonsson and Mats Troeng pretty much figured out the way the shorter legs would look). After this, came an attempt to sleep. There was about a dozen of us stuffed into the cabin and, though we were safe from the noise and cold of the event center, we still had our nerves to contend with, and falling asleep was a bit difficult for me, at least until it got dark and i moved over from Mata's blow-up mattress to an actual bed.
I woke up well before my 3am alarm, got up, had some breakfast, and joined Rob Hart and Jan in listening to Tiomila radio, hoping to get news of our teams' performance. This was the middle of the Long Night leg, and things weren't going too well for either of our first teams, so we sat around in silence for a while and then packed our stuff and made our way back to the event center just around the 5am sunrise.
From the organizers' predictions and our own best-case scenario thinking, i had prepared myself for a 6-6:30am start time, but realized when we got to the event center that i wouldn't be running until about 8am. It was a bit tough to hang around the event center for so long but still maintain some focus, but at least it was hard to get bored, with constant updates of action from the forest and lots of old friends to bump into and chat with. Additionally, seeing some of our sport's greatest stars (Swisscheese, Andrei Khramov, Jan Troeng) smiling and relaxed before their pressure-packed races somehow helped make me a bit less nervous as well.
Finally, my turn came, and my 7th leg runner, Olof Borell (nicknamed a very original "Boris") ran down the finish chute, having picked up a few places to move us into 117th at the exchange.
I must say that the race itself was the most anti-climactic part of the whole event for me. I went out on my leg totally along and didn't really see any leg 8 runners apart from a couple looking totally lost somewhere in the control circle. My legs felt ok right from the start, but never great - probably a common phenomenon for thousands of under-slept Tiomila runners, but i managed to keep a pace i was happy with throughout the race without losing contact with the map more than once or twice. My goal was to try to be cautious in the circle and "sacrifice seconds to save minutes". I did that reasonably well, probably squandering about 2:30 around the course, in the form of several 20-40 second mistakes. Towards the end of the course i was overtaken by Jan (on leg 9), who was setting a brutal pace and putting good distance between himself and a chasing pack, desperately trying to hang on. It was inspiring watching him fly through the woods at a speed i could never match, and even manage to offer encouragement as he sped by me. All in all, i was 57th on the 8th leg, about 22% behind the best times, which i was reasonably happy with given that i ran alone the whole way. I handed off to Rob Hart in 105th place.
After the finish, it was time to watch and wait, first for Mats Haldin's exciting (yet not unexpected) victory for Halden, then for Mats Troeng to anchor Linne 1 to a solid 24th place finish (below expectations, but still a very good result), and then for Erik Jonsson to run an excellent last leg and put Linne 2 into 85th place, 10th among clubs' second teams, and just one place back of local rival IF Thor's first team.
Lots more waiting and cheering at the finish, the award ceremony, clean-up and packing and then, just like that, Tiomila was over and we piled onto the bus for the trip home, with the talk already turning 48 days ahead, to Jukola.
This first Tiomila was an awesome experience for me, mostly as a festival of orienteering (though with some old-timers grumbling about the influx of foreigners [none of the top 10 anchor leg times was run by a Swede] and about runners changing clubs every year). Additionally, it was great to see Swedish club spirit on display, in particular, in my own club. The volunteers and club supporters who came out and helped with accommodations, food, and hundreds of little things, helped make this an unforgettable week-end for me. Finally, as always, thanks to the attackpoint crowd watching at home - it's cool to know that someone is following your results!
All the results are at http://www.10mila.se/2006/online/res.shtml
The map should be up tomorrow.
C • ... 9
Note
Some thoughts on Linne's Tiomila results.
Linne 1. The team didn't really have set goals, but top 10 was discussed, and certainly being among the leaders seemed like an option. Certainly, to do that, each runner would have to have run to his potential. This didn't happen - the team got 8 good runs out of 10 legs and finished a very solid, but not spectacular, 24th. Even still, it's interesting to see how the team compared, leg-by-leg, to both the winning team (Halden 1) and the 10th team (Baekkelaget 1).
Here is a leg-by-leg breakdown of places:
Leg Linne1 Halden1 Baekkelaget1
1 15 9 30
2 38 27 41
3 62 22 6
4 68 9 7
5 40 3 2
6 28 12 15
7 25 1 14
8 26 16 44
9 4 13 24
10 16 8 18
So, Halden's score against Linne1 is 9-1, while Baekkelaget's is 5-5. So, with this very unscientific survey, it looks like thoughts of top ten finish for Linne1 are not unreasonable (with 10 good runs), while a victory is solidly out of reach for the time being...
Linne 1. The team didn't really have set goals, but top 10 was discussed, and certainly being among the leaders seemed like an option. Certainly, to do that, each runner would have to have run to his potential. This didn't happen - the team got 8 good runs out of 10 legs and finished a very solid, but not spectacular, 24th. Even still, it's interesting to see how the team compared, leg-by-leg, to both the winning team (Halden 1) and the 10th team (Baekkelaget 1).
Here is a leg-by-leg breakdown of places:
Leg Linne1 Halden1 Baekkelaget1
1 15 9 30
2 38 27 41
3 62 22 6
4 68 9 7
5 40 3 2
6 28 12 15
7 25 1 14
8 26 16 44
9 4 13 24
10 16 8 18
So, Halden's score against Linne1 is 9-1, while Baekkelaget's is 5-5. So, with this very unscientific survey, it looks like thoughts of top ten finish for Linne1 are not unreasonable (with 10 good runs), while a victory is solidly out of reach for the time being...
Friday Apr 28, 2006 #
Running 27:40 [2] 3.07 mi (9:01 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
Easy morning jog with Sandra.
Running 6:00 [1]
Strides.
The afternoon training consisted of relaxing in a hot tub and trying (unsuccessfully) to challenge theShadow's Fyrishov water slide record of 6.98 seconds. This was followed by fantastic carboloading courtesy of Hammer, Etoile, and AdventureGirl!
The afternoon training consisted of relaxing in a hot tub and trying (unsuccessfully) to challenge theShadow's Fyrishov water slide record of 6.98 seconds. This was followed by fantastic carboloading courtesy of Hammer, Etoile, and AdventureGirl!
Thursday Apr 27, 2006 #
Running 19:30 [2] 2.29 mi (8:31 / mi)
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Jogging to the start and back.
Orienteering 53:00 [2] 5.3 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Training on Nasten with Sandra, Brent, and Hammer. Ran an old middle-distance course. I ran pretty slowly, trying to keep contact throughout and did a pretty decent job, not making any big mistakes. Very wet in the woods, though, and I did a nice face-plant into a swamp right at the start.
Orienteering 1:06:49 [3] 8.0 km (8:21 / km)
shoes: 2005 Falcons
O-training at Fiby with Linne boys and the Canucks, leaving poor Sandra at home. Pretty tough woods at times, lots of crap underfoot, but still decent technical orienteering. Was pretty tired by the end, though. I think this was my last O-session before Tiomila.
Wednesday Apr 26, 2006 #
Running 31:05 [2] 4.1 mi (7:35 / mi)
shoes: Nike Pegasus '05
Nice morning run - a shuffle around the neighborhood, as Spike would say. Another beautiful morning - it's so hard to believe that this was all snow-covered even just a week ago.
For the last couple of days, I've tried wearing an extra layer of clothes to try to get used to the heat expected at the US team trials. Man, it's nasty.
For the last couple of days, I've tried wearing an extra layer of clothes to try to get used to the heat expected at the US team trials. Man, it's nasty.
Running 15:00 [2] 1.76 mi (8:31 / mi)
shoes: 2005 Falcons
Jogging to the start + cool-down
Orienteering 45:07 [4] *** 6.0 km (7:31 / km)
15c shoes: 2005 Falcons
Wednesday night training race. On Sandra's first night in Uppsala, we ran on the most awful part of Lunsen - mostly green and swampy with tons of clear-cut areas. Yuck.
I made a few small mistakes early, but they added up to 3-4 minutes. Then raced ok in the end. Henrik Lofas ran 38, Ulf 42, Bjorn 47.
I made a few small mistakes early, but they added up to 3-4 minutes. Then raced ok in the end. Henrik Lofas ran 38, Ulf 42, Bjorn 47.
Tuesday Apr 25, 2006 #
Running 43:02 [2] 5.54 mi (7:46 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
Easy run - the trail loop in Stadsskogen, with the map. Nice spring day.
T.rex training 20:00 [1]
Flexibility exercises after the run. There, Kat, here is a third color in my training for you.
Running 45:00 [2] 5.29 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: Nike Pegasus '05
Warming up, cooling down, trying to keep moving between intervals.
Running 18:00 [5] 3.27 mi (5:30 / mi)
shoes: Nike Pegasus '05
"Form toppning" intervals - meant to be run very fast with a lot of rest. Each set consisted of 90sec on, 60sec off, 45sec on, 2min off. We did eight sets. This was hard, but fun!
Hammer was there, and looked strong.
The intervals were followed by the club's Tiomila meeting, where we discussed logistics and stuff. One of the guys in club has a cabin right next to the map, so we get to stay there, which is cool. My 8th leg will start around 6am, so i have to convince my body it wants to run then... This will be an interesting task for the next few days.
Hammer was there, and looked strong.
The intervals were followed by the club's Tiomila meeting, where we discussed logistics and stuff. One of the guys in club has a cabin right next to the map, so we get to stay there, which is cool. My 8th leg will start around 6am, so i have to convince my body it wants to run then... This will be an interesting task for the next few days.
C • 6am 5
Monday Apr 24, 2006 #
Orienteering 1:29:31 [3] ***** 9.95 km (9:00 / km)
shoes: 2005 Falcons
Training run with Hammer. Since this was his first training in Uppsala, I had to show him the best we've got, and so we went to Lunsen. I hadn't run there since it was covered in snow (and dark), so today was so much fun!!! The marshes were even not too cold today. Man, this place is what orienteering is all about - fast, extremely technical, and beautiful.
Good to have Hammer in town!!
Good to have Hammer in town!!
Sunday Apr 23, 2006 #
Orienteering 1:20:00 [2]
Setting out SI units in the morning, then collecting controls and disassembling control stands in the afternoon. Running around the woods with a map and compass in one hand and an axe in the other made me feel like some sort of native american warrior. Except that they probably didn't have bags full of SI units on their bags...
Absolutely gorgeous day, lots of people turned up for our meet, which is cool. I spent most of the day manning the drinks station at the spectator control, but am still really tired now for some reason.
Hammer is in town and has a car. Might have to cancel tomorrow's planned day off and go train instead. It feels like I've done nothing but orienteer all week long, but it only adds up to 7 hours. I guess that's what racing season will do.
Absolutely gorgeous day, lots of people turned up for our meet, which is cool. I spent most of the day manning the drinks station at the spectator control, but am still really tired now for some reason.
Hammer is in town and has a car. Might have to cancel tomorrow's planned day off and go train instead. It feels like I've done nothing but orienteer all week long, but it only adds up to 7 hours. I guess that's what racing season will do.
Saturday Apr 22, 2006 #
Running 25:00 [2] 2.94 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Long warm-up and short cool-down.
Orienteering race 38:35 [4] *** 5.23 km (7:23 / km)
15c shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
IF Thor's middle distance race, part of the Uppsala Meet week-end. An absolutely gorgeous day, perfect weather for orienteering - perhaps +13C and totally sunny. Before the start, a number of different people from the club came up to me and said they were impressed with my run at the Tiomila Test on wednesday. I had no idea people even paid attention to these things. Pretty cool. So, of course, with these high expectations I had to turn in a totally mediocre run. The course was what Rob Hart referred to as "the toughest type of orienteering for non-Swedes to compete with Swedes in": technical and runnable, but not too technical, so you can pretty much run in a straight line most of the time. Looking at the splits, i didn't make any big mistakes, but was plagued by a ton of small ones, and each of them counted - i wasn't running much slower than the top guys in my class, but they were just much less sloppy. It didn't help that on each of the first three controls i was within five meters of the flag and didn't notice it. Oh well, still not a bad race, just not what i had hoped for. Results at http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/sv/default.a...
C • Tio Mila 11
Note
I spent the evening at Erik Melin's house programming SIs for tomorrow Linne meet. First time i'd ever done it - it's actually kinda fun and definitely a good thing to know how to do.
Friday Apr 21, 2006 #
Note
All my JK maps and the Tiomila Test map from Wednesday are now up on http://www.lightmercury.com/maps_boris/
Running 48:35 [2] 6.27 mi (7:45 / mi)
shoes: Nike Pegasus '05
Took it easy today because i was feeling a bit banged up and tired from all the racing of the last week and ran the trail loop in Stadsskogen. My first run of the season in Sweden in shorts! Nice day, nice woods, nice easy pace.
Note
Haha, i just read on the site of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that the letter "W" has now officially been accepted as part of the Swedish alphabet so they could put "webb" ("web" in English) in the dictionary. Pretty funny.
Thursday Apr 20, 2006 #
Orienteering 1:17:40 [3] 8.63 km (9:00 / km)
shoes: 2005 Falcons
It's hard to believe that after yesterday's +12C, I woke up to see it snowing this morning. A miserable day all around, with temperatures no higher than +2. When will this end??
In the evening we got to pre-run the courses for this week-end's Linne classic race (1300 registered, including Hammer). I did H20L, though not the whole course as it was getting dark. Kept a nice cruising pace and navigated well. Had a bit of a problem reading contours and stuff in clear-cut areas, and also finding quick, hesitation-free paths to trails, when you don't need to think much, just run and keep a bearing.
In the evening we got to pre-run the courses for this week-end's Linne classic race (1300 registered, including Hammer). I did H20L, though not the whole course as it was getting dark. Kept a nice cruising pace and navigated well. Had a bit of a problem reading contours and stuff in clear-cut areas, and also finding quick, hesitation-free paths to trails, when you don't need to think much, just run and keep a bearing.
Wednesday Apr 19, 2006 #
Running 20:00 [2] 2.35 mi (8:31 / mi)
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Warm-up + cool-down
Orienteering race 56:12 [4] *** 8.43 km (6:40 / km)
15c shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
OK Linne Tiomila Test Race
On a beautiful, sunny day we drove down to Sigtuna to run on the map that was day 1 of O-Ringen 2001.
This was probably the best I have ever run in Sweden. Despite coming from England the night before, i felt great physically right from the start and pushed hard. It was just so much fun to run through Swedish woods without snow!! The first few controls were pretty easy, and I just needed to be careful and slow down at my attack points, which was fine. When I spiked the first tricky control, #4, I got pretty confident and knew this would be a good day. Bobbled 5 and 6 by about 20 seconds each, but I didn't panic and relocated quickly each time. Coming into 9, I saw Joffe who started 2 minutes before me and tried chasing him down on the long trail run to 10, but he was too fast. It started getting darker towards the end of the course, and it was a bit hard to see the details on the map, so I slowed down a bit to maintain concentration. Made my biggest mistake on 12 - about 40 seconds lost, but finished cleanly, good for 5th place in the club's Tiomila test (though half the people ran it at night). Still, quite pleased.
Splits here: http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/sv/default.a...
On a beautiful, sunny day we drove down to Sigtuna to run on the map that was day 1 of O-Ringen 2001.
This was probably the best I have ever run in Sweden. Despite coming from England the night before, i felt great physically right from the start and pushed hard. It was just so much fun to run through Swedish woods without snow!! The first few controls were pretty easy, and I just needed to be careful and slow down at my attack points, which was fine. When I spiked the first tricky control, #4, I got pretty confident and knew this would be a good day. Bobbled 5 and 6 by about 20 seconds each, but I didn't panic and relocated quickly each time. Coming into 9, I saw Joffe who started 2 minutes before me and tried chasing him down on the long trail run to 10, but he was too fast. It started getting darker towards the end of the course, and it was a bit hard to see the details on the map, so I slowed down a bit to maintain concentration. Made my biggest mistake on 12 - about 40 seconds lost, but finished cleanly, good for 5th place in the club's Tiomila test (though half the people ran it at night). Still, quite pleased.
Splits here: http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/sv/default.a...
Tuesday Apr 18, 2006 #
Running 52:08 [2] 6.32 mi (8:15 / mi)
shoes: Nike Pegasus '05
Nice, easy run with Kat along the river in Oxford on a beautiful sunny days with stops to stretch, look at cows, geese, swans and so on. A very pleasant spring day!
Monday Apr 17, 2006 #
Running 10:00 [2] 1.18 mi (8:28 / mi)
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Warm-up and cool-down
Orienteering race 38:15 [5] *** 7.19 km (5:19 / km)
18c shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
JK Relay at Bramham Park
Team SLOW#2:
Boris(7km)-Kat(5km)-Chris Wroe(5km)-Hammer(7km), competing in the men's open class.
I ran the first leg as training for leading off CSU's Jukola team this June. As expected, the pace was very fast right from the start, tearing straight through the brambles that were all over this map. I was clean through the first two controls and found myself with GG and a couple of others going to 3 and finding ourselves in what looked like a piece of unmapped forest. After about 1:40 of trying to relocate, we stumbled onto the control and began pursuit of the main pack. I lost some time (20 seconds each) on 6, 7 and 9, but was still pushing hard and could see a bunch of guys ahead of me the whole time. After 13 and 14, the spectator controls, I saw that there was only about 1km left, and I picked up the pace, gaining on and passing about five or six guys right before the last control and holding them off through the long finish chute. I was very happy to finish with a pack (18th out of 32, 5:12 off the lead) and hand off to Kat, except..... Kat wasn't there. Apparently, the 2nd leg runners had to already have their maps before being tagged, and she had to run back and get hers. About a minute and a half later, she was there, and I finally tagged her and went to cool down and cheer.
Both Kat and Chris Wroe had very good runs, considering they were racing against the best elite males in Britain, and Hammer (who arrived while the 3rd leg was already out) brought us up to 24th overall with a solid last-leg run.
All in all, this was a great weekend of orienteering, and the kind of race format US A Meets could consider adopting - Sprint-Middle-Classic-Relay. It definitely makes the trip worth it if you get to run 4 times in 4 days. The weather was also good, as was the hospitality provided by the many SLOW members who housed us, drove us, fed us, and gave us relay teams. A big thanks to them! It was also great to see some old friends and familiar faces, from Graeme Ackland and Andy Dale to Niall Bourke, Ben Roberts and Dids. Finally, i got to meet in person a few APers, including bubo and angryhaggis!
Team SLOW#2:
Boris(7km)-Kat(5km)-Chris Wroe(5km)-Hammer(7km), competing in the men's open class.
I ran the first leg as training for leading off CSU's Jukola team this June. As expected, the pace was very fast right from the start, tearing straight through the brambles that were all over this map. I was clean through the first two controls and found myself with GG and a couple of others going to 3 and finding ourselves in what looked like a piece of unmapped forest. After about 1:40 of trying to relocate, we stumbled onto the control and began pursuit of the main pack. I lost some time (20 seconds each) on 6, 7 and 9, but was still pushing hard and could see a bunch of guys ahead of me the whole time. After 13 and 14, the spectator controls, I saw that there was only about 1km left, and I picked up the pace, gaining on and passing about five or six guys right before the last control and holding them off through the long finish chute. I was very happy to finish with a pack (18th out of 32, 5:12 off the lead) and hand off to Kat, except..... Kat wasn't there. Apparently, the 2nd leg runners had to already have their maps before being tagged, and she had to run back and get hers. About a minute and a half later, she was there, and I finally tagged her and went to cool down and cheer.
Both Kat and Chris Wroe had very good runs, considering they were racing against the best elite males in Britain, and Hammer (who arrived while the 3rd leg was already out) brought us up to 24th overall with a solid last-leg run.
All in all, this was a great weekend of orienteering, and the kind of race format US A Meets could consider adopting - Sprint-Middle-Classic-Relay. It definitely makes the trip worth it if you get to run 4 times in 4 days. The weather was also good, as was the hospitality provided by the many SLOW members who housed us, drove us, fed us, and gave us relay teams. A big thanks to them! It was also great to see some old friends and familiar faces, from Graeme Ackland and Andy Dale to Niall Bourke, Ben Roberts and Dids. Finally, i got to meet in person a few APers, including bubo and angryhaggis!
Sunday Apr 16, 2006 #
Running 25:00 [2] 2.94 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Warm-up and cool-down
Orienteering race 1:52:17 [4] *** 14.5 km (7:45 / km) +375m 6:51 / km
30c shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
JK Classic WRE at Keldy
It had been a long time since I had run a good classic race, mostly due to poor endurance and lack of real base training the last couple of years, so I didn't have very high expectations for myself for this long, grueling race. The start order for the classic was the reverse of the middle race's results, so I was starting 12th, with the few people I had beaten in front of me. At the very least, I set as a goal to be in the lead when I finished, with a dream goal of actually opening the finish in H21E, which seemed pretty far-fetched with the 3-minute start interval.
The terrain was pretty rough and green, with a dense ride and trail network, but the catch that most of the rides turned into marshes and were hard to run on. Basically, the course was a physical fight for the first 9km or so and then, when you were totally worn out and dead, you got to the fast, technical last several km. Cruel, but fun.
I felt strong right from the start, much better than the day before and, after a bobble on 1 (a short control right from the start into a maze of ditches), was careful and clean on 2, 3, and 4 and was happy to catch and pass my 3-minute guy. After a long uphill slog 5, I spotted and passed my 6-minute guy going to 7 and stayed with him through the technical bit of 7,8,9. Coming into 10 (one of several controls on a small ditch in the middle of the green), I saw the 9-minute guy, and he stayed with me for a long time. Was still pushing hard and feeling good through the other long legs in the green but slowed down and hesitated a bit on the short legs in the "white" woods from 13-17, passing the 15-minute guy and the 21-minute guy. Then came the fast, technical area, and my stomach started hurting like crazy. I had to stop for a minute or so going to 20, letting the 9-minute guy catch up again, and lost concentration, losing another 2 minutes on #20, which was a stone pile on a plain hillside. After bobbling 21 a bit, I slowed down, forced myself to focuse and ran pretty well the rest of the way, though was extremely tired and barely jogging on the last few hills - a common story reported by most of this race's survivors. And, indeed, cheered by Kat on the run-in, I was happy to learn that I was the first H21E to finish. Then it was time to watch my result slip down the leaderboard as faster and faster people came in. I ended up 22nd, very satisfied with my race, and in 29th overall for the weekend, fulfilling the goal of top 30 and beating a few people I had never before thought possible for me to beat.
Hammer impressed again, with another excellent run - good for 16th on the day, I think.
I will try to put up my maps later today, but Graham Gristwood (who won each of the days) has all of them, along with very interesting commentary, up on http://www.grahamgristwood.co.uk
It had been a long time since I had run a good classic race, mostly due to poor endurance and lack of real base training the last couple of years, so I didn't have very high expectations for myself for this long, grueling race. The start order for the classic was the reverse of the middle race's results, so I was starting 12th, with the few people I had beaten in front of me. At the very least, I set as a goal to be in the lead when I finished, with a dream goal of actually opening the finish in H21E, which seemed pretty far-fetched with the 3-minute start interval.
The terrain was pretty rough and green, with a dense ride and trail network, but the catch that most of the rides turned into marshes and were hard to run on. Basically, the course was a physical fight for the first 9km or so and then, when you were totally worn out and dead, you got to the fast, technical last several km. Cruel, but fun.
I felt strong right from the start, much better than the day before and, after a bobble on 1 (a short control right from the start into a maze of ditches), was careful and clean on 2, 3, and 4 and was happy to catch and pass my 3-minute guy. After a long uphill slog 5, I spotted and passed my 6-minute guy going to 7 and stayed with him through the technical bit of 7,8,9. Coming into 10 (one of several controls on a small ditch in the middle of the green), I saw the 9-minute guy, and he stayed with me for a long time. Was still pushing hard and feeling good through the other long legs in the green but slowed down and hesitated a bit on the short legs in the "white" woods from 13-17, passing the 15-minute guy and the 21-minute guy. Then came the fast, technical area, and my stomach started hurting like crazy. I had to stop for a minute or so going to 20, letting the 9-minute guy catch up again, and lost concentration, losing another 2 minutes on #20, which was a stone pile on a plain hillside. After bobbling 21 a bit, I slowed down, forced myself to focuse and ran pretty well the rest of the way, though was extremely tired and barely jogging on the last few hills - a common story reported by most of this race's survivors. And, indeed, cheered by Kat on the run-in, I was happy to learn that I was the first H21E to finish. Then it was time to watch my result slip down the leaderboard as faster and faster people came in. I ended up 22nd, very satisfied with my race, and in 29th overall for the weekend, fulfilling the goal of top 30 and beating a few people I had never before thought possible for me to beat.
Hammer impressed again, with another excellent run - good for 16th on the day, I think.
I will try to put up my maps later today, but Graham Gristwood (who won each of the days) has all of them, along with very interesting commentary, up on http://www.grahamgristwood.co.uk
Saturday Apr 15, 2006 #
Running 20:00 [2] 2.35 mi (8:31 / mi)
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Warm-up and cool-down with Kat.
Orienteering race 44:49 [4] ***** 5.5 km (8:09 / km) +160m 7:07 / km
16c shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
JK Middle Distance WRE at Ilkley Moor.
The terrain consisted of a long hillside, part of which was pretty plain, with just a bit of rock detail, and the other part featuring tons of intricate rock and contour detail. Practically the whole map is yellow, with patches of white that really stood out. The ground was covered by bracken and rocks, and the running could be pretty tough at times. A late start time definitely helped, but the elephant tracks were everywhere, and it took some discipline (which I lacked) to avoid following a nice track leading to the wrong controls.
Right from the start, I didn't feel very strong physically and had to force myself to run hard. I was having a decent race through the first five controls, but was spending too much time focusing on running hard and not enough time concentrating on the navigation. I could get away with that through the simpler part of the course, but paid dearly once we got into the detailed areas. I drifted off my line going to 6 and found myself a good five contours below, having to climb up and losing two minutes or so. Was then very tentative on 7,8,9, and then blew 10, the spectator control, right in front of the crowds. I stopped right below it, but didn't see it and ended up making a big loop and relocating, losing another 1:30. From there my race came apart completely, as I attacked 11 without a plan, losing a minute, seemed to recover for 12, and was confused in the poorly mapped area around 13 (and watched Graham Gristwood run around in circles with me). In addition to these big errors, there was just a sense of general sloppiness about the race for me, and I just never got into it. Ended up a very disappointing 50th out of 62 (40% behind Graham's winning time!!!), not a good start towards my goal of top 30 for the weekend.
Kat had a tough time on her course as well, making it an all-around disappointing day for us. On the bright side, Hammer had an awesome run, and would have been top-15 if not for losing time on the same badly-mapped #13 as me.
The terrain consisted of a long hillside, part of which was pretty plain, with just a bit of rock detail, and the other part featuring tons of intricate rock and contour detail. Practically the whole map is yellow, with patches of white that really stood out. The ground was covered by bracken and rocks, and the running could be pretty tough at times. A late start time definitely helped, but the elephant tracks were everywhere, and it took some discipline (which I lacked) to avoid following a nice track leading to the wrong controls.
Right from the start, I didn't feel very strong physically and had to force myself to run hard. I was having a decent race through the first five controls, but was spending too much time focusing on running hard and not enough time concentrating on the navigation. I could get away with that through the simpler part of the course, but paid dearly once we got into the detailed areas. I drifted off my line going to 6 and found myself a good five contours below, having to climb up and losing two minutes or so. Was then very tentative on 7,8,9, and then blew 10, the spectator control, right in front of the crowds. I stopped right below it, but didn't see it and ended up making a big loop and relocating, losing another 1:30. From there my race came apart completely, as I attacked 11 without a plan, losing a minute, seemed to recover for 12, and was confused in the poorly mapped area around 13 (and watched Graham Gristwood run around in circles with me). In addition to these big errors, there was just a sense of general sloppiness about the race for me, and I just never got into it. Ended up a very disappointing 50th out of 62 (40% behind Graham's winning time!!!), not a good start towards my goal of top 30 for the weekend.
Kat had a tough time on her course as well, making it an all-around disappointing day for us. On the bright side, Hammer had an awesome run, and would have been top-15 if not for losing time on the same badly-mapped #13 as me.
Friday Apr 14, 2006 #
Event: JK 2006
Orienteering race 17:09 [5] * 3.24 km (5:18 / km)
16c shoes: 2005 Falcons
JK Sprint
After a couple of lovely days of sightseeing and relaxing with Kat in London, we arrived in Leeds with Paul Nixon of the South London club and Chris Wroe of OUOC, just in time to run the sprint course before the elite showcase began. With no warm-up, i started a bit slow, but picked up the pace pretty quickly. The terrain was pretty straightforward, and one of the major challenges was the myriad Trail-O controls with no punches on them surrounding the correct sprint controls. I ran a good race for the most part, but made a couple of stupid mistakes in a hedge maze towards the end, losing 40 seconds or so. I think I could have run a good bit faster with a proper warm-up, but I was still pretty happy with my time, good for 16th out of 200+ on the normal sprint, though quite a bit behind the elite runners, whose course was just a bit longer, but who also ran under actual race conditions, which I think makes a sizeable difference.
Kat was 2nd on the women's course, beating some of the elite times, as well!!!! All results are on http://www.jk2006.org.uk/
After a couple of lovely days of sightseeing and relaxing with Kat in London, we arrived in Leeds with Paul Nixon of the South London club and Chris Wroe of OUOC, just in time to run the sprint course before the elite showcase began. With no warm-up, i started a bit slow, but picked up the pace pretty quickly. The terrain was pretty straightforward, and one of the major challenges was the myriad Trail-O controls with no punches on them surrounding the correct sprint controls. I ran a good race for the most part, but made a couple of stupid mistakes in a hedge maze towards the end, losing 40 seconds or so. I think I could have run a good bit faster with a proper warm-up, but I was still pretty happy with my time, good for 16th out of 200+ on the normal sprint, though quite a bit behind the elite runners, whose course was just a bit longer, but who also ran under actual race conditions, which I think makes a sizeable difference.
Kat was 2nd on the women's course, beating some of the elite times, as well!!!! All results are on http://www.jk2006.org.uk/
Orienteering 53:17 [2] 5.33 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: 2005 Falcons
Cool-down plus jogging around the JK model event with Kat. Rather uninteresting terrain, with lots of brambles and thorny areas.
Monday Apr 10, 2006 #
Note
On the ride back from the meet yesterday, Sofie showed Kat and me the invitation for a meet in Koping in September. Check out the lower left-hand corner:
http://www.goldenweekend.se/GW2006/inbjud.htm
http://www.goldenweekend.se/GW2006/inbjud.htm
Running 57:03 [2] 6.34 mi (9:00 / mi)
shoes: 2005 Falcons
Jogging with Kat to and from Nasten, mostly on trails.
Orienteering 18:00 [2] 1.8 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: 2005 Falcons
Jogging from the control back to the "start".
Orienteering 12:37 [4] 1.5 km (8:25 / km)
shoes: 2005 Falcons
Decided to go out to Nasten, pick a random leg, and run it hard a couple of times, see how much faster I can run it the second time. Had hoped to do it three times, but it started getting dark by the end, so only had time for two.
Here is the leg (the highlighted one, going from marsh to cliff):
http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy/nasten_leg.JP...
(I apologize if the bandwidth gets exceeded again - will upgrade that stuff when i am back from England next week)
First time was 6:52, second 5:47. A huge difference! It was a tough leg, but still, i am spending tons of time slowing down and reading the map. Ran it better the second time, too - more straight-line. The woods are pretty nasty now - still some snow, but the marshes have melted, and the water is deep and ice-cold...
Off to England tomorrow with Kat - a couple of days' sightseeing in London, followed by the JK.
Here is the leg (the highlighted one, going from marsh to cliff):
http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy/nasten_leg.JP...
(I apologize if the bandwidth gets exceeded again - will upgrade that stuff when i am back from England next week)
First time was 6:52, second 5:47. A huge difference! It was a tough leg, but still, i am spending tons of time slowing down and reading the map. Ran it better the second time, too - more straight-line. The woods are pretty nasty now - still some snow, but the marshes have melted, and the water is deep and ice-cold...
Off to England tomorrow with Kat - a couple of days' sightseeing in London, followed by the JK.
Sunday Apr 9, 2006 #
Running 15:00 [2] 1.76 mi (8:31 / mi)
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Warm-up, cool-down
Orienteering race 1:33:18 [4] ***** 11.7 km (7:58 / km)
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Stockenfejden race, Strangnas. H21L. First real race of the season, so I didn't realy know what to expect. It was a great day - maybe +7C and sunny, with some snow still in the forest, but also patches of nice, runnable woods. Started very well and spiked the first 2. On the way to 3, was shocked to see Carsten Jorgensen, who started two minutes before me. Got 3 with him and led him in to 4. On the long leg to 5, he took off, running faster than I could through tough clear-cut areas, and I thought i wouldn't see him again. As I came to my attackpoint for 5, though, there he is again, standing still, huffing and puffing, looking intently at his map. Still with him at 5 and 6 and then he began to disappear up ahead. I made a parallel error on 8, losing 2 minutes or so and then slowed down for the next couple of legs to get my rhythm back. After a few more legs, came to the crazy butterfly loops, three of them in a very technical area, which meant passing through the same control 4 times. I think i lost some time here, as I was rather slow on the short, technical legs, making sure i maintained map contact. I avoided big mistakes, but did manage to mess up the pivot control 3 of the 4 times i came to it. The last few legs were a bit easier, and i pushed pretty hard, happy to have something left in the tank after a tough course. The winner was Ulf Troeng, in 75 minutes. I was 25th, about middle of the pack, but overall very happy with my spring debut.
Course, part 1:
http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy/strangnas1.jp...
Course, part 2:
http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy/strangnas2.jp...
(Haven't upgraded from geocities yet...)
Course, part 1:
http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy/strangnas1.jp...
Course, part 2:
http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy/strangnas2.jp...
(Haven't upgraded from geocities yet...)
Saturday Apr 8, 2006 #
Running 41:48 [2] 4.92 mi (8:30 / mi)
shoes: 2005 Falcons
Running to/from Stenhagen with Kat (and with Jan on the way back).
Orienteering 1:08:10 [3] 7.3 km (9:20 / km)
shoes: 2005 Falcons
Running a course on Stenhagen with Jan Troeng (Kat did a shorter version). Tough woods, not the best map, but good training. The snow cover is noticeably thinner than it was last week, so there is some hope that spring is on the way. Felt quite confident in my orienteering and had no trouble maintaining contact most of the way, though was still very impressed by how smoothly Jan runs through green on clear-cut areas, while still keeping map contact. Gotta work on that!
Friday Apr 7, 2006 #
Swimming 30:00 [1]
Swimming with Kat and friends at Centralbadet. Kat tried to teach me freestyle, semi-successfully.
Orienteering 1:04:38 [2] 6.46 km (10:00 / km)
shoes: 2005 Falcons
Jogging around the course from last Sunday's training race in Stadsskogen with Kat, in reverse order. She was doing the navigating, and i was being annoying. First run of the year without gloves and a hat, though that might have been a bit optimistic. Nice and relaxed, with the lovely setting sun to look at for the last part of the run.
Thursday Apr 6, 2006 #
Note
Hmm, the "hourly data transfer limit" on my crappy old geocities site gets exceeded seemingly every time someone goes to look at a map on there, and the site gets temporarily shut down. In other words, i need some free webspace, just for putting up maps and occasional pictures and stuff... Since AP is a community of nerds (myself included), can someone provide a good tip on free/cheap webspace? Thanks!
Running 38:14 [2] 4.63 mi (8:15 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
An easy morning shuffle around Stadsskogen. Nice and sunny (still 0C like always, though), making the snow on the trails soft and hard to run on. Kind of had that feeling where you are working pretty hard but not moving forward at all. Still, nice to get outside and stretch the legs a bit.
Note
The interval workout scheduled by OK Linne for this evening is 70on/20off, done between 12 and 24 times. It seems a bit strange - i don't see the point of so little recovery time. Can anyone explain the point of such a workout?
Running 50:00 [2] 5.56 mi (9:00 / mi)
shoes: Nike Pegasus '05
Running to the clubhouse, then warm-up for intervals, then rest between intervals, then back home.
Running 21:00 [5] 6.0 km (3:30 / km)
shoes: Nike Pegasus '05
70-20 intervals on roads with Linne. A very nice day - about +5C, sunny, no snow on the roads - you could almost believe it was spring unless you had run in a foot of snow the day before...
Forced myself to not start out too fast, and it worked, as I kept a pretty consistent speed through all 18 of these. Jan, Joffe, and a few others did 24, but i was content with 18, as the last two felt very hard (and were uphill), so it felt like just about the right number to run. Nice, hard workout.
Forced myself to not start out too fast, and it worked, as I kept a pretty consistent speed through all 18 of these. Jan, Joffe, and a few others did 24, but i was content with 18, as the last two felt very hard (and were uphill), so it felt like just about the right number to run. Nice, hard workout.
Wednesday Apr 5, 2006 #
Running 7:00 [2] 0.82 mi (8:32 / mi)
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Warm-up for Wednesday night training.
Orienteering race 1:10:58 [4] 7.9 km (8:59 / km)
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Wednesday night training race at Borje-Jumkil. Ran the long course during the day, and looks like it was a good choice, as 7 out of the 16 who ran it at night DNF'd. Tough woods, tough course, about 30cm of slushy soft snow on the ground. Was pretty much alone the whole way and tried to keep a solid effort pushing through the snow, which wasn't easy, as i couldn't get any rhythm running and kept being off-balance/on the verge of falling almost every other step. On the bright side, this was one of my better technical days in a while, especially given that i was making my own tracks in the snow. Went off the line going to 11, but relocated, losing about 1:30 or so. Then another stupid 1 minute mistake on 13, as I got distracted by another runner. Was pleased with my time, despite the slow TPK. Henrik Lofas ran it during the day in 62, Jan Troeng had the best time at night with 64:30.
My course is at http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy/borje-jumkil....
And my course with routes is at http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy/borje-jumkil-...
Really should start putting up more of my maps...
My course is at http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy/borje-jumkil....
And my course with routes is at http://www.geocities.com/bgranovskiy/borje-jumkil-...
Really should start putting up more of my maps...
Tuesday Apr 4, 2006 #
Orienteering 1:52:55 [2] 11.5 km (9:49 / km)
shoes: 2005 Falcons
Club training at Nasten. There was a course consisting of a bunch of long legs, which got you to a control surrounded by a few other controls, and you could take those other controls in any order. It was fun, but pretty much like regular orienteering. Of course, there was the usual foot of snow in the woods, plus the marshes were no longer frozen, combining for a nice cold run.
Monday Apr 3, 2006 #
Running 1:00:00 [2] 7.5 mi (8:00 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Trail Shoes
Dragged myself out for a "morning" run at 1pm. Everything was very slushy, so feet got wet instantly. Pretty much just ran around: through Stadsskogen, down Norbyvagen, on the Linne trail through Norbyskogen, then along Hagadalen, and all over the icy trails around Eriksberg before coming back down to Ekeby.
T.rex training 1:00:00 [2]
Gympa with Kat.
Sunday Apr 2, 2006 #
Running 55:42 [2] 6.19 mi (9:00 / mi)
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Warm-up with Kat, cool-down with Rob, jogging to pick up some controls, to Tomas' place in Blodan and then home.
Orienteering 39:09 [5] 6.43 km (6:05 / km) +73m 5:46 / km
shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
Training race in Stadsskogen. The website, as an April's Fools joke, announced a course length of 16.3km, and I used that as an excuse to eat more breakfast than I should have, so I started out nice and full, trying to run hard in what is now back up to almost a foot of snow. Still, pushed hard for the first half of the course, made a 30 second mistake on 11, and then struggled through the rest with a stomach cramp. The orienteering wasn't too hard because it's Stadsskogen and because of all the tracks in the snow, but you still had to concentrate and run hard. Totaled about 1:40 in mistakes. Ended up 4 minutes behind the winner, a minutes behind Rob, and a minute and a half behind 15-year-old Albin. That kid is amazing - Mats got him by just half a minute.