Training Log Archive: 007

Swelling on leg much better and didn't cause me problems, so was able to run the Swiss long champs :) The tricky Jura terrain was a welcome change from the local 'mittellandwald', though it wasn't quite as tricky as I expected, with many easy to follow small paths.
Happy to have a 'clean' run, with good fine orienteering and spiked every control without stopping. However the longer legs were a bit frustrating - I kept losing direction and contact, often being inefficient ending up in slower patches of forest or not meeting tracks soon enough. Planning too vaguely, and needed to a bit more proactive with my rough nav, not so reactive.
Physically pushed hard though sometimes felt got slowed too much by the terrain (think I need to do some aggressive terrain running) and need to learn to run as hard alone as with others. In the last 15mins started feeling tired and a bit hungry..
Overall happy with myself and 'only' being 14mins behind Simone (20%) in a long. 17th seems disappointing but the reality is that there are many strong swiss girls who train very hard and I should be happy to see that they are within reach, only a few minutes from top 10. Also wouldn't say my preparation deserved a much better result.

Results
http://www.o-l.ch/cgi-bin/results?type=rang&year=2...

Map
http://www.swiss-orienteering.ch/binperl/reitti.cg...

Event: 8. Nationaler OL A / LOM
 

tried a little run in the morning but the 'Tomatli' on the side of my thigh was stopping my muscles from functioning. not feeling hopeful about running either races this weekend.
By evening after swimming, ice, ibuprofen it was feeling better and could engage the muscles.

I have a big 'Tomatli' on my leg, it hurts when i put weight on it because the ITB and whatever muscles here are all blue and hard. I hope i can run for the swiss long champs on the weekend :/

steeeep uphill warm up to start. Fell over banging the side of my thigh on a rock.

3x downhill intervals on steep slope with huge rocks, very cool :)
Leg swelled up with a big lump on the side and very sore to walk.

TSV Group run, tempo getting progressively harder but never not super hard.
Few little achey twinges in knee but not persistant
Love Autumn evenings :)

Morning run in Buechberg