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Saturday Jul 14, 2012 #
9 AM
Orienteering warm up/down 25:00 [3]
shoes: inov8 X-talon 2012
went for the x-talons thanks to the rain overnight. Didn't fancy slipping all over the show...plus Helena went for x-talons, and she knows what the game is.
Orienteering race 14:04 [5]
shoes: inov8 X-talon 2012
Uh. Not sure where that came from?!
Such a cool area, but such basic courses! After all the hype about multilevels and how they were going to map it, barely mattered! Lots of left or right 50/50 route choices where once the choice was made it was just hell for leather running.
Didn't want to leave anything for chance, so gave it everything. And now I can say that I won a race at World Champs :)
Such a cool area, but such basic courses! After all the hype about multilevels and how they were going to map it, barely mattered! Lots of left or right 50/50 route choices where once the choice was made it was just hell for leather running.
Didn't want to leave anything for chance, so gave it everything. And now I can say that I won a race at World Champs :)
4 PM
Orienteering warm up/down 25:00 [3]
shoes: Saucony Fastwitch 4
short warmup in quaruntine, then a nice jog along the waterfront to the start. Very pretty :) And felt a bit like running along wellington waterfront...but swiss ;)
Orienteering race 17:00 [5]
shoes: Saucony Fastwitch 4
Holy Crap, most physical sprint ever!
Happy with my race until the spectator. Then the course really hit the hills... Didn't see the stairs in the uncrossable wall on the long leg, so took the longer, slower upper route. Which just killed my legs. From there it was survival mode, small errors crept in from oxygen debt and I was so relieved to hit the downhill towards the end!
No idea where I was in the standings when I came in as everyone was ignoring the little kiwi in all the excitement about some swiss woman winning on home soil...
10minutes later I found out I was top ten. That was nice. Bit of an understatement there...
As an aside, was pretty surreal and quite cool to be starting right at the back of the field with the big names :)
Legs screwed. After one day. Not good!
Happy with my race until the spectator. Then the course really hit the hills... Didn't see the stairs in the uncrossable wall on the long leg, so took the longer, slower upper route. Which just killed my legs. From there it was survival mode, small errors crept in from oxygen debt and I was so relieved to hit the downhill towards the end!
No idea where I was in the standings when I came in as everyone was ignoring the little kiwi in all the excitement about some swiss woman winning on home soil...
10minutes later I found out I was top ten. That was nice. Bit of an understatement there...
As an aside, was pretty surreal and quite cool to be starting right at the back of the field with the big names :)
Legs screwed. After one day. Not good!
Friday Jul 13, 2012 #
2 PM
Orienteering 30:00 [2]
cruise around sprint model with greta. Completely unrelated to either WOC sprint. Thanks organisers. Atleast now I know how to sprint around football pitches...
Thursday Jul 12, 2012 #
Orienteering 31:00 [3]
Long Model.
Probably the nicest forest yet which is a relief. Was actually the long final model, as the qual model was just on Fermens...ugh
But don't worry. All thoughts are on the quals from here. No point worrying until the finals until you've qualified!
Probably the nicest forest yet which is a relief. Was actually the long final model, as the qual model was just on Fermens...ugh
But don't worry. All thoughts are on the quals from here. No point worrying until the finals until you've qualified!
Wednesday Jul 11, 2012 #
3 PM
Orienteering 23:00 [3]
shoes: VJ Bold 2011
Middle qual model.
Lots of felled crap...brain wasn't engaged. Rest time i think
Lots of felled crap...brain wasn't engaged. Rest time i think
Orienteering warm up/down 10:00 [3]
shoes: VJ Bold 2011
to/from start and finish. Had to stop and get the tiniest little thorn out which was sticking into my big toe pit. (arm pit, knee pit, toe pit - why not?). So small but so painful!
Tuesday Jul 10, 2012 #
10 AM
Orienteering 40:00 [3]
shoes: VJ Bold 2011
Middle final training on La Pile.
Made a mess of the first control...first big mistake here. 6.5mins, oops. Rest was good though. Some big crevasses hiding in the moss though, bit worrying! They're just lizzie width too... :s
Made a mess of the first control...first big mistake here. 6.5mins, oops. Rest was good though. Some big crevasses hiding in the moss though, bit worrying! They're just lizzie width too... :s
Orienteering 6:00 [3]
shoes: VJ Bold 2011
Redid no. 1 and 2 after. Still hesitant and a bit off on no.1 But 2.20 is a lot better than 6.30!
Orienteering warm up/down 15:00 [3]
2 PM
Orienteering 15:40 [3]
shoes: VJ Bold 2011
Middle Qual training. Just did a short 1.5-2km course with the go-pro camera on. Enough tracks in there that nav was easy enough.
Monday Jul 9, 2012 #
10 AM
Orienteering 1:06:00 [3]
shoes: VJ Bold 2011
long final training. Half-paced it round the first few controls of the trial race. Then cut 5-16, taking time to suss out the steep gullies. Did a few controls on teh other side then turned around for home. White forest is fine, light green okish, stripes and yellow not worth the effort. Bail out to a track option seems a pretty good idea most of the time
4 PM
Orienteering 1:01:00 [3]
shoes: VJ Bold 2011
headed out to Fermens with Dieter. Rest of the team had already been there, or didn't want to. Was warned abuot how crap the area was, but given it was the only training area for the long qual, still wanted to see it.
General thoughts - white and light green OK. Rest of it, stay out of! Get out to a track asap but even that can be hard. And every time I got tired or frustrated at the terrain and stopped...bugs and mozzies would feast on me!
nah it wasn't all that terrible, just have to harden up and deal with it.
Super sweet soccer pitch at the finish, such a nice turf! might have to see if Apples FC has a women's team...
General thoughts - white and light green OK. Rest of it, stay out of! Get out to a track asap but even that can be hard. And every time I got tired or frustrated at the terrain and stopped...bugs and mozzies would feast on me!
nah it wasn't all that terrible, just have to harden up and deal with it.
Super sweet soccer pitch at the finish, such a nice turf! might have to see if Apples FC has a women's team...
Sunday Jul 8, 2012 #
11 AM
Orienteering 8:30 [3]
shoes: VJ Bold 2011
warmup sussing out some of the white and green forest
Orienteering 35:00 [3]
shoes: VJ Bold 2011
Middle distance course on a map bordering the middle qual area. Stuff on the detailed flatter bit at the top was fine. Controls on the steep hill side with few features will be hard though! Need to slow right down and have a plan, despite having little to go off. Made a couple of mistakes on these controls, but there were extra tracks and felled bits all over the show...
Legs ok, managed to go over on R ankle, may require some taping, much as I hate the stuff.
Legs ok, managed to go over on R ankle, may require some taping, much as I hate the stuff.
1 PM
Orienteering 14:04 [5]
shoes: Saucony Fastwitch 4
Sprint training around Nyon. Just a straight course. Felt good to get some speed going again, and right leg felt ok despite the concrete running. Nav was fine, fountain at the end was finer :)
Orienteering warm up/down 10:00 [3]
fairly token