Training Log Archive: Jagge

Warm up and checking some places afterwards...

Ran a H21 course candidate. I little bit too tough course for our district, I must change it a bit.

Memory training from Monday:
http://www.routegadget.net/gpsoblog/cgi-bin/reitti...

Tried to look at the map only once per leg, had to look three times(!) on my way to #1, I guess I was a bit rusty on this at the beginning, but the rest were succesfull - boomed #4 for two minutes but didn't look at the map, just followed a guy with a cell phone ;-) Long legs #5 and #8 were fun. I didn't look at the map after #8.

Now if I think of it, it wasn't bad training at all. To be able to run long legs like this, you can't forget what are yu doing and where are you going/turning next, what you expect to see before you leave path etc. You are forced to think very same things you should be thinking all the time when you are racing. But in "normal" O trainings with slow pace you have the map and plenty of time to read it, so you can safely forget everything - you just look at the map if you dont know where you are and where you are going. Not good habbit to get (sloppy navigating - not looking at map if lost....)

10 x 300m 60-61 sec, 60 sec rest

Tried to tun just below aerobic threshold. Average HR was 156, threshold is about 162. Distance from Forerunner, HR from Polar,

only two days after last road test run. Too soon, legs were heavy and I felt tired. Max HR 189, nice to get HR that high. laps:
1:20
1:23
1:23
1:26
1:29
1:31
1:31
0:44 (200m)

Finnish long champs - I didn't run.
http://okorient.fi/harveli/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?act=...

"Iltarastit" - popular monday training event by Helsingin Suunnistajat. I don't run these events often, courses are too easy. These are meant for average sunday orienteers, not for a die hard like me.

I had hard run yesterday and today it was easy day. Because there is no point jogg slowly this easy course, I had to fgure out something. This time I decided to try memory training, I tried to run each leg with looking at map only once or twice. There was some quite log legs and it was fun, so I ended up running several legs without looking at map, for example I didn't lok at map after thris last control at all. 7 km, 10 controls and I looked at map 11 times. Fun, and quite opposite what Spike has been writing lately. Looking at map, not every 5th second, but ever 5th minute.

I did one mistake, I missed my last attackpoint (big stone in green) and had to search quite some time until I found the control. But I didn't need look at the map ;-) There was other guys searching the control with me, one of them was talking to cell phone all the time until he finally said "I had to hang up now, I really need to find this control". There is a good concentration training for those who like to practice keeping focused - run O course and simultaneulsy talk someone on phone about something else, like gardening.

RG later.

C • Cell phone 4

Routegadget Index has 1500 events today.

1500th event is Løten Ol, Eldilten:
http://lotenol.no/cgi_bin/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=7&