Training Log Archive: tnipen

Orienteering race 1:47:30 [4] **** 14.12 km (7:37 / km) +332m 6:49 / km
15c shoes: New Balance X 2

Oringen day 5. Chase start. Made a gigantic mistake in the beginning, where I got lost on a medium length leg (2 to 3). Probably more mistakes today, than the rest of the week combined. Almost at the point of giving up, but I found a nice Finnish train to follow and stayed with them for the rest of the race. It saved me today, because I completely lost my head at the beginning. Without the mistake, I could probably run it in around 88mins.

Overall a good Oringen for me. The navigation was pretty good the first 4 days, with no big mistakes. Got quite tired on day 4 and 5.

Note to self for next year: Marsipan was actually a good food to use during the race. Worked quite quickly. Brought 1.5 centimeters of slices of baking marsipan on each of the three long days. Maybe not so good on the last day, when it was realy warm out and the two slices I brought turned into a paste that's still partly stuck in the back pocket of my trimtex pants.

Running warm up/down 25:00 [2] 4.0 km (6:15 / km)
shoes: New Balance X 2

Orienteering race 46:36 [4] *** 8.2 km (5:41 / km) +194m 5:05 / km
17c shoes: New Balance X 2

Oringen day 4. Started at the top of a mountain, and ran down to the finish. almost all of it in the alpine. Fun to run up there, made a 2 min mistake on one control, other than that pretty good. 45th place.

Trail running warm up/down 20:00 [2] 3.0 km (6:40 / km)
shoes: New Balance X 2

Orienteering race 1:22:08 [4] *** 12.17 km (6:45 / km) +390m 5:49 / km
17c shoes: New Balance X 2

Oringen day 3. Long distance. 1/2 of the course up in the alpine. Glad I nailed 7,8,9 because it was so technical. Almost had to jog to stay in touch with the map. Think that saved me a lot of time, because there were many lost people there. 50th place.

Only 8.5% extra run distance, compared to the shortest possible.

Trail running warm up/down 25:00 [2] 4.0 km (6:15 / km)
shoes: New Balance X 2

Orienteering race 40:10 [4] **** 5.8 km (6:56 / km) +143m 6:10 / km
19c shoes: New Balance X 2

Oringen day 2, middle distance. Had a really good race for 2/3 of the race. Then got mentally tired, and made a lot of small mistakes on the last part. The first half of the terrain was really fun. 68th place.

Trail running warm up/down 15:00 [2] 2.5 km (6:00 / km)
shoes: New Balance X 2

Note

Watched the WC sprint. Cool concept to have a good section of the course visible from the finish, so we could see the elites make mistakes.

Orienteering race 1:46:35 [4] **** 15.42 mi (6:55 / mi) +305m 6:31 / mi
24c shoes: Olway speed

Day 1 of Oringen. Nice marsh terrain, probably my favourite day, I really enjoyed this. Had a good race, with only some small mistakes. Unexplainable mistake to 11, maybe 1 min. 30 secs mistake coming into 18. 38th place of ~150.

Running warm up/down 25:00 [2] 4.0 km (6:15 / km)
shoes: Olway speed

Orienteering 1:05:00 [3] *** 9.0 km (7:13 / km)
shoes: John's Nike shoes