Training Log Archive: 007

Wow, so sore all over and in some strange places...
Travel back 'home' to continute life in Switzerland post WOC. My main goal now is to find a job ASAP!!

C • job 5

WOC Relay race
Headed out on last leg a fair way down on any other runners but just infront of the Spanish girl. Started hard and ran reasonably well with just a few small time losses. Ran totally alone apart from passing one girl after the first few controls, so it didn't really feel like a relay..

Beer orienteering race on the sprint model map. 2nd to Elin by one mouthful, took a spectacular stack too on my last loop!

easy run and swim in the lake after

Run on tracks in Long training forest. Felt really really tired. Did some faster surges to try to get going a bit. By the end I felt a bit better.

WOC Middle final
Determined not to make any big mistakes like in all my previous WOC middle finals, and also in the qual yesterday. So I ran a very diciplined race not rushing anything and taking a few extra seconds leaving every control to make sure I had good direction and plan.
Just one unfortunate error at #13 where I navigated directly to the control site (a small cliff) but stupidly looked down from the top of the cliff and didnt see the control. A careful relocation lead me back to the same cliff and control a minute or so later..
In hindsight I may have been over cautious at the cost of speed and oomph but I was happy to have a controlled run. even if the placing is not that good. Now I just have to get better at doing that faster!
Physically I seemed to really struggle with the rough terrain especially when combined with hills, and sometimes pushed around more than i would have liked.
31st, 10:21 behind Minna Kauppi.
Best result in a WOC final but only just (33rd in my first WOC middle in 2008).

C • Great work 2

15 warm up
5warm down (very sore bruised feet from rocky ground)

WOC Middle distance qualification
Started well but lost the plot at #6 losing 4.5mins on a incredible stupid/simple error and slow relocation (kept relocating off the wrong track junction). From then I was really angry and ran the rest well and really hard (except one more small error). Didn't think i would qualify but very happy too as the middle is by far my favourite!
Happy to have good splits for most of the course and physically felt good. Whatever bad feeling I had running yesterday seemed gone.

10mins warm up
25mins warm down

v ez morning jog

WOC Long Qualification race
Started well but lost time on #4 and #6 where each time lost direction mid leg and had to relocate, lost 1-1.5mins on each. I was focussing too much on planning ahead to approach the controls and not enough on where I was runing. The controls themselves were easy to find, often I saw the control minder before finding the control. Also took a bad RC to #9 losing another minute going much too wide on tracks (this sort of RC was better in training but the forest here was faster).
Physically felt really tired in the second half, mainly in the legs having real trouble making them go fast which was a horrible feeling
Very disappointed not to qualify as I really wanted to run the long this year, but the terrain was so fast with no room for error.

10mins warm up, some run throughs which felt like hard work.
depressing warm down

evening jog and swim as warm down after race was not much

Event: WOC 2012 - Lausanne SWITZERLAND
 

easy run followed by swim, felt ok except left knee a bit ITB sore

long model- ran moderate pace, mostly ran RC out to tracks, a bit faster
enjoyed this area much more with the updated model map, vegetation readable

long warm down on roads