Training Log Archive: dolph

Running to the start. Arrived almost too late, could just enter the start box when I arrived at the pre-start.

3. day of KAPA, WRE. Was not motivated at all, felt tired and o-shoe almost broke apart. However, startet slowly and had a look on the course, most of the controls in 2. level greens... without me!
Quite the race on the way to the 2. control, jogged back and took some of the last controls. Winning time was 95min by Martins Sirmais, whole course was 13.5km.

2. day KAPA. "The swamp day". Forest was green again, with the difference that most legs went over marshes. Pushed quite hard in the beginning, but lost 4min on the long leg due to sth in my eye, afterwards an other guy caught me, lost him on the 3 rd last and made there an stupid 2min mistake.
Winning time was an incredible 52min, a 6min lead to the second place, held by Ambrazas. I guess not even Mats Haldin or Jani Lakanen could have ran this course in 52min.

warm-up for sprint.

Sprint in Madona/LV. Didn't count to the overall KAPA result. Sprint was in the evening after the 2. stage. Legs were tired of course. Ran with my NB shoes. Fast until 5th control, then a 1.5min mistake... ran too fast. Afterwards 2x 10-15sec mistakes. Disappointing, once again... .

1. stage KAPA, Latvia. H21E. Felt so weak from the beginning, ran most legs around cause I was afraid of greens and swamps. No bigger mistake but 5x 1 - 1:30min. My ideal time would have been around 75min, winning time was 62min... (Ambrazas). I have no idea how one can run such a time??!!
We played chess for 2h before the start in the sun, maybe this dehydrated us too much. Patrick complained about the same feelings.