Training Log Archive: Lizzie

Mum had about first start today, so at the arena by 9am. Open courses couldn't start til 3.30pm, by which time I was a bit over it to be honest. Motivated myself to warmup, then got to the start to find a mosh pit of people waiting. Spent 25mins or so waiting in line.

Bit of a tame course around DTU. Seemed they'd played join the dots to make our courses, which made a 27 control pick with limited to no route choice between the controls. That said, I didn't really do very well deciding with what route choice there were, which were usually 50-50 calls around buildings. the last 7 or so controls were pretty funny, kind of just playing ping pong from one side of a track to the other as we made our way to the arena. I reckon if we'd used SI air I could have just run along the track and got the controls without trying. almost ;)
Good enough fun. Beaten by 2 girls by about 5s each. Dunno who they are, one from BOK and one from Lynx.

Event: World Masters Orienteering Championships 2018
 

Reached a compromise with myself. Seen as I'm not confident going out to a map alone, but I'm OK running in høiåsmarka, I figured doing some light O around høiås would be a good first step. Then I remembered I still have some rocks to collect from the winter trainings! :D
So a 70% track run, ducking off track to find rocks. Wore shorts and didn't take a compass. Because we all know høiås is super clean underfoot and impossible to make nav errors on... I survived though ;)
8 more rocks to go!

Thought to go and do some technical training today. But the closer it got to leaving time, the more I realised I wasn't comfortable driving out somewhere and going O training alone. The confidence just isn't there again yet.
Have to admit, the realisation took me back a bit. But when I think about it, today was the first time post-op that I've had the chance to go out alone, so the issue hasn't come up.
Anyway, I opted to go for a long run in høiåsmarka instead, as I'm as under-prepared for the WOC long physically as I am technically. Should probably at least attempt to do something about it ;)

Was meant to meet Iliana at 4pm for the first of 'Project Iliana and Lizzie's road to WOC' interval trainings. We were meant to begin this project after NM Sprint...but yeah...
No better today either. I was at the door putting my shoes on, when my neighbour (and landlord) showed up and asked if I could help with assisting his wife down the stairs and to the car. She's at least 85 and not in good health. And their stairs are the narrowest, tightest turning staircase you've ever seen.
Anyway, 10mins later they were in the car and I was off!

...Did not find Iliana. Even with my best no-warm-up tempo effort to get to our meeting point :( Continued the tempo to Venås where we were to run hill reps. but she wasn't there either. Did the classic o-gang bird call to try find her. But either Bulgarian birds sound different, or she wasn't in hearing. Or most likely both.

Obviously this project is jinxed. So I think we'll cheat and say that our head to head race on Sunday was the official first session of the project!

Ran a short hill interval session by myself. 8 reps on an about 3min cycle. First four hills had times of 1.14, 1.15, 1.14, 1.13. Then my watch died. So I'll just go ahead and assume the second four were about the same.

Hot.

Jogs downhill and warmdown.

Got home to find missed calls from Iliana. I must have missed her by about 2mins at our meeting point. I feel shit for leaving her hanging, but on the other hand, I feel my excuse is fairly solid. Not much different I could have done there...

She did not hear my bird call. And Bulgarian birds do not sound like my bird call.

C • Bulgarian birds 2

Gränsjakten Long

Chasing start based off yesterday's results. However Miri didn't start, so I headed off 2nd, 15s behind Line and with Iliana another minute and a bit behind.
Line and I scrapped around at #1, and then faffed 1min on #3, where Iliana slipped by without us seeing her. We were too low (or actually correct height) in the re-entrant and missed the flag, which was tucked up in the top (where it shouldn't have been...). Anyhow, on we continued and I first glimpsed Iliana ahead on the long road to #4. Also dropped Line somewhere here. The rest of the course was playing cat and mouse with Iliana. We kept taking different routes up until the 10th control, but she kept popping out between 5-30m ahead of me. From there I was right on her tail, and took the lead down toward #12...which was on a rock like 5-10m from a track junction...I was surprised then, to see there was a control right in the middle of the track jn, which I was very wary of. And sure enough, not the right #. Our control was right where it should be, tucked behind the rock a few steps away. Obviously the distance rule doesn't count if one control is on a 1:10000 map and the other is on 1:15000??

Anyway, I got my control, and yelled at Iliana to make sure she got the right one. Which was just as well, as I glanced over my shoulder as I shouted, just as she was punching the track jn! Glad the hesitation she took meant we didn't have to sprint off in the finish chute ;)

I saw someone ahead of Iliana going out of #5, so have to admit I assumed there was another girl ahead of us both for the whole rest of the course. But apparently not. So I added a bit more weight to the theory that while I can't win individual races in Norway, I can if I just hop over the border ;)