Training Log Archive: Lizzie

Middle Distance training at Kjølesjøen. Had Bjørn tailing me today, so pressure was on not to get him lost ;)

Navigation was scratchy today, a couple of off bearings and fair bit of getting close to the control, hesitating, then realising I was in the right spot but couldn't see the white tape :/
Big time loss on #8 when my direction was off, which I recovered from fine. Problem was that on the map the control was on a stone on flat section, while from where I was standing on the ground it was up on a distinct slope. Couldn't match up map to ground so relocated, just in time for Nils to show me where the tape was anyway.
At least I felt good physically :)

Maps somehow printed without marshes on them, bit of a bummer given 50% of the map is marsh, but can't really blame my navigation on it!

Friday Ellipse with Kine, except she was 30min late, giving some guy ample time to claim the ellipse next to me. Then Magne came and rudely occupied one of the only other pair of decent ellipses. Silly boy.
So, well, in the end it was only 20min of ellipse with Kine, once the guy next to me had departed. Just as well we had coffee on Thursday, otherwise our weekly chat would have been severely curtailed!

Skjog in høiåsmarka. Managed to get out far enough to find some pristine and un-touched snowy trails to leave my footprints in.

Year's last football training, not that I've been at training more than a couple of times in the last couple of months anyway. 1 degree and solid rain, beautiful conditions :) Fine once going, very rusty though. might take my spare pair of boots home to NZ and see if I can get a run around at summer football I think.

Heading to Oslo for work at midday, so out for a run in høiåsmarka. Frosty as but I'm getting the hang of this layering business after 3 years, even the double gloves! Had full feeling and reasonable warmth after 20mins. Legs were twingy after 30mins so pretty glad I skipped out the relay training this morning.

Arrived late as to miss out the running skipping and jumping parts of the session. Thought that was a highly sensible thing to do after yesterday, but predictably copped some flack for it. Apparently others have tougher legs than me.

Skolleborgturen!
Frosty and cold and lots of complaining on my part on the drive out ;) But I knew it would be lovely once we started. And it was. A good group of us this year made up of a couple of the older lads, a few junior guys, and all the women bar Jo and Eva, who were too speedy. About 15 of us all up.
27km of beautiful old (and often disappeared) single trails from Skolleborg right through to Høiås. The majority of the group opted for 20km, but Idun and I continued on the 25km course. Always hard to find the route after the splitting point, but the boys had left us little trails through the frost that we could connect like a dot-dot puzzle.

Very weary on the last hill and a little wrecked in the evening. Longest run since surgery and my body is letting me know it! Good stuff.