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Training Log Archive: Joshosh

In the 7 days ending Jan 4, 2015:

activity	#	time	miles		km		+m
Orienteering ◪	7	3:23:26	19.77	(10:17)	31.82	(6:24)	285	171 /	173c	98%
XC Skiing - Classic	1	1:25:00	4.07	(20:53)	6.55	(12:59)	40
ice skating	1	1:00:00
Running (Road)	2	13:43	1.36	(10:07)	2.18	(6:17)
Running (Trails)	1	3:32	0.34	(10:25)	0.55	(6:28)
Total	9	6:05:41	25.54		41.1		325	171 /	173c	98%

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Sunday Jan 4, 2015 #

2 PM

Orienteering ◪ 23:59 [2] *** 2.76 km (8:41 / km) +10m 8:32 / km
spiked:20/20c shoes: inov-8 Talon 212 (June 2014)

Out to jakokosken museokanava today. Lots of snow on the roads to get there and also passed kuusoja, the first Finnish forest I trained in before WOC2013.

Course would have been awesome fun in summer.......in January at -10 and up to my knees in snow.......not so much. But the snow was frozen on top so it seemed ok to run on.......until you tried to run and then you just sank with every step. Cool little area though with old boats everywhere. There were supposed to be permanent controls out but either they weren't there or they were, like everything, covered in snow.

Very heavy to run in, hard to keep the leg lift high.........especially with small legs.

Coming back we went to kontolahti to see the arena for the 2015 world biathlon championships in a few months. Looked pretty awesome with the ski trails and shooting ranges. Was -12 at this stage, kind of nippy.

Saturday Jan 3, 2015 #

2 PM

XC Skiing - Classic 1:25:00 [1] 6.55 km (12:59 / km) +40m 12:36 / km

First time trying this out, im not a natural.....shock horror.....but got the hang of it a bit better as the time went on. You really feel all of the little hills when doing this. Great fun but definitely better at traditional style as supposed to the freestyle stuff

5 PM

Orienteering ◪ 29:23 [3] *** 4.69 km (6:16 / km) +45m 5:59 / km
ahr:156 spiked:22/23c shoes: inov-8 Talon 212 (June 2014)

Running on Noljakka map which was tied in with a trip to the supermarket to get ski wax. Just -2 today, nearly feels warm to run in compared to the training in orimatilla.

Another really nice area, although at night it's hard to tell what it really is like. Lots of snow too after about 12hrs straight of snow fall but the temperatures got above 0 today so its starting to freeze pretty hard, and, ice is not soft to land on, i have done the field research!!

Friday Jan 2, 2015 #

4 PM

Orienteering ◪ 31:16 [2] *** 5.06 km (6:11 / km) +35m 5:58 / km
ahr:151 spiked:31/32c shoes: inov-8 Talon 212 (June 2014)

Planned a middle distance night-o course around the linnunlahti/hasanniemi map.

Mixture of open parkland with lots of thickets, scattered trees section, fast white forest and some really slow and dense green forest with shallow pits, form line depressions and very low visibility.

Missed control 5 by maybe 10m or so but couldn't see the boulder because of all the fresh snow fall. Rabbit popped out to say hi here too!

River was frozen over and looks like it will keep snowing till tomorrow at about lunch time!! Depending on temperature that could mean skiing/falling on snow.

Thursday Jan 1, 2015 #

3 PM

Orienteering ◪ 33:13 [3] *** 5.94 km (5:36 / km) +25m 5:29 / km
ahr:159 spiked:40/40c shoes: inov-8 Talon 212 (June 2014)

3:30pm means time for night-o!!

Ran on the tiedepisto/linnunlahti map which covered a nice variation again in terrain. Temperature is +3 today so its really icy. Picking up some useful info for running in these kind of conditions to limit my falls at the Bergen Sprint Camp

Fireworks last night were really cool and we built a lumiukko at keskiyö which was cool even if he did look majorly psychotic!!

Ice skating is on the cards for the evening......or......more likely me being like Bambi!

5 PM

ice skating 1:00:00 [1]

Olympics could be on the cards..............well at least I was better than the guy on rte a few years ago.

Wednesday Dec 31, 2014 #

2 PM

Running (Road) warm up/down 6:33 [2] 1.04 km (6:18 / km)
shoes: inov-8 Talon 212 (June 2014)

tropical weather....... 1 degree!! pretty icy under foot

Orienteering ◪ 28:39 [2] *** 4.38 km (6:32 / km) +70m 6:03 / km
spiked:31/31c shoes: inov-8 Talon 212 (June 2014)

planned a course around the Niinivarra map. nice mix of park, urban, ski trails and green forest.

icy everywhere so took it handy, also snow was pretty deep in places...........or i just have short legs!

first run here with the sun too!!

Karelian pies on the menu before 2*fireworks displays and maybe some snowman (lumiukko) building :-)

Running (Road) warm up/down 3:36 [2] 0.57 km (6:19 / km)
shoes: inov-8 Talon 212 (June 2014)

Tuesday Dec 30, 2014 #

8 PM

Running (Trails) 3:32 [2] 0.55 km (6:28 / km)

in the snow to the start of the SM sprintti 2013 in joensuu

Orienteering ◪ 25:12 [2] *** 4.42 km (5:42 / km)
ahr:153 spiked:18/18c shoes: inov-8 Talon 212 (June 2014)

snowing heavy enough and lots on the ground. needed headtorch to see the map and especially in the forest part.

took it easy enough and was layered up well.

only -3 today for training

Running (Road) 3:34 [2] 0.57 km (6:15 / km)
shoes: inov-8 Talon 212 (June 2014)

back to riina's apartment around the hockey rinks

Monday Dec 29, 2014 #

5 PM

Orienteering ◪ 31:44 [2] **** 4.57 km (6:57 / km) +100m 6:16 / km
spiked:9/9c shoes: inov-8 Talon 212 (June 2014)

Reindeer (Poro) for dinner and dark around 3!!

Night-o on Sudenkuoppa (roughly means wolf den) for my first winter training in Finland. x-country ski trails and could hear guys practicing on the biathlon ranges. Lots of snow on the ground and also falling from the sky. Nice map and permanent controls in the forest all year round!!!

Oh and it was -18degrees for this workout, coldest I've ever run in for sure and maybe the coldest I've ever been in. Was wrapped up well though. Buff over my face did freeze around my mouth and nose!

Sauna time when I got back too followed by mustikkakukko! could get used to this!

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