Training Log Archive: Shep

Middle distance in the same area as yesterday. Still feeling ordinary. Started fairly steadily and ran well for the first few controls, but then the bingo master called a number noone had, number 4. Ran around trying to find a small cairn (the only one on the map) in an area of young pines full of rock cairns and boulders with about 2m visibility, and people running around everywhere searching. i even heard stories of people standing still and holding their breath to listen for the beep of the SI unit. i only lost about 2mins but lost all my motivation. the map for the rest of the course was dodgy too - not sure if i didnt notice yesterday cause it was 1:15000 or we just didnt go into the dodgy areas... finished up 4mins behind emil lauri. now i gotta get healthy and back into the training.

woke up this morning feeling crap again, and almost decided not to go out to Ulricehamn. but figured i'd go and see how i felt when we arrived - the elitserien was on at the same time so there'd be something to watch anyway... of course i couldnt go all the way out there and not run so i ran ;) just cruised around really, felt ok but definitely not 100%, and had a really good race technically (besides 1 bad route choice) until the 16th, with only about 1.5km to go. probably the easiest control on the course and so i reckon i relaxed a bit, and made a 2.5min mistake. so f*cken annoying, goddammit.

we went to some cheapo shopping town after and i heard some girls talking english so looked around and one of them was anna jenkins. small world. not really though, she lives in jonköping.

cruising around Eriksberg with Axenbög checking out the sprint course he's planning for one of the rounds of the spring sprint series. testing a few route choices with some sections of harder running. feeling ok but still far from 100%. nice hespresso and cinnamon scroll by the water at some cafe afterwards.

at Mariestad. Well i still felt pretty ordinary but i aint Swedish so i ran anyway. Probably shouldnt have, and i wouldnt have missed anything. one of the worst courses i've run - easy, no route choice! just a running race, and my lungs didnt want to run fast. i made a tiny mistake on the 1st control, prob only lost 4 seconds, otherwise i was going as fast as i could. still didnt make the final, missed out by 4 seconds - i was 52 seconds behind Wingstedt who won my heat (and the final). pretty happy to sit ouot the final hactually as i really wasnt feeling up to it. drank coffee and ate negerbollar instead.

C • mwaaaa 2

got a cold... typical.

C • Tiomila cold 5

cruisy run with Wernersson at Skatås, even had Johan-Gregor with us on the bike for a while. warm afternoon, crazy streak of nice weather in the Göt. Feeling pretty tired and not sure if i'm getting a cold or not. I'm just gonna assume not.