Training Log Archive: Jagge

C • You look cruel... 3

FinnSpring H35. I jogged slowly first half, shortcut #7 -> #17

FinnSpring H21 relay, last leg. No other runners available, so I had to run H21 relay. I got last leg, so I would not spoil others race with my slow run. Race was just what was expected, I was able to run first kilometer and the rest was slow jogging and walking. Not fun at all, but there isn't much I can do about it. My health is what it is, I should be happy to be able to run at all :( but after all these years this slow jogging in forest isn't so interesting and challenging.

We ended up 19. about 15-20 min behind VeVe. Well done Swisscheese!


GPS stuff later if I find time.

Event: FinnSpring
 

FinnSpring H35. I jogged slowly first half, shortcut #7 -> #17

Car tyre changing, winter tyres to summer tyres. Late, it's already may, but better do it late than never. And it was snowing yesterday in Lappeenranta, snow hasn't melted yet.

C • Car tires 4

O tech training with Minna. Tight rules how to do it, looking at map was allowed only at pre-defined points (first loop) or at points picked up on the fly (rest of the course). The rest of the time you were not allowed to look at the map (only compass, terrain and map memory).

A good way to get get rid of habbit for reading every tiny detail in low speed O trainings - you can't read every detail in full speed so there is no point doing it s too often in traings either. Also this forces you to plan and read well ahead, also because you are not lowed to look at map you'll look compass instead - ignoring compass is common porblem for some athletes. Also we have tight rules how to use thumb: after each map reading we were supposed to move and put our thumb between the start and end of the segment. So every time we are about the rad the map, we were supposed to already know exactly where we are and and our thumbs were supposed to be already at the right place - easy and fast to read next segment and go on.

This time we were supposed to stop for a brief moment to read map, so we could easily see every stop afterwards in gps track. Here is map and my one second dot route from start to #1:

GPS dot route to #1

map, course & route (I forgot to adjust my route right at #3 - #4, don't let it confuse you)

You can see tiny X marks along the first loop, those were the pre defined map reading locations and those should match with gps route stops (most red parts of the dot route) and do any stops else where.

I ran only the frist myself and dropped some streamers for Minna. Then I waited for a while and followed Minna for a while (gps timing does not match right now, I should upgrade my RG). then skipped one and put som more streamers (and Minna picked streames up, we don't litter).

This training and ideology is something I have done since I was 15 old and it's one of my secrets for keeping (or at least trying to keep) my full speed O tech together even if I can't run fast and and only slow jogging in forest is possible (asthma).

(maybe I should write an article: "Jagge's Orienteering for Dummies - A simple step by step guide for learning fast navigating without mistakes just in 30 days")

;)