Training Log Archive: grilla

Moved to Nowa Kaletka today - a luxurious holiday resort we're led to believe!!!
Did a short course & really enjoyed it. Only real mistake was in the village area where I got chased by a dog. Am hoping there is not too much village streets in the races as I might fall to pieces there.
Did some extra riding afterwards but cut that short as I was sick of mud puddles.

guesstimated distance. This started out shockingly as I was racing & not concentrating at the start. After taking 15 min to get the first control did reasonably, but not perfect - a lot of room for improvement. A bit more difficult riding than yesterday, in wet conditions.

A little better but still not taking time to settle into the map at the start. Getting leg tired so cut the course short.

Control collecting. got the starting area down pat this time...

at Wilimy. Managed to get a map from the local hotel without too much trouble. Forgot my map board so had to pretend to be rogaining & ride with the map on a string around my neck. Good map memory practice. I started well, but after a while probably got a bit too confident with the map memory & made a few mistakes. Was also not feeling well. Then planned and started a route from 6 to 7 but was only at 5. Eventually decided that enough was enough & made my way back from there. Rode really hard for this section.

A beautiful forest & fun riding but it would be even better to run through.

C • Sounds great... 2

In Bialowieza again. This time I went out on the bitumen with the aim of getting more distance on rougher tracks. This failed as the tracks I was trying to take were really just logging retrieval tracks and kept petering out. They were also very muddy & it was obviously the favourite haunt of the local wild boars or bison so this freaked me out a bit, went back onto the forest trails but came across a car that stopped & turned around just after he passed me - another freak out. No dramas though, I think he was just checking logs or some other forestryish thing.

In Poland! Rode around the Bialowieza forest - mainly on roads but some gravel trails, some forest trails and some tracks. Hamstrings getting sore from so few hills & sitting in the one position. Quite warm and very beautiful forest. Stopped for a few photos now & then.