Training Log Archive: jess

northern section of the map. ran with fredrik. we basically raced to each control and he gave me like a 30sec handicap. i won a few, but lost most i think. still lots of fun. hard work.

fredrik dropped me at the southern end of the map and i basically ran home. after having no idea on the second control i got really into the map. i am finally starting to understand the terrain now. new orienteering shoes, twisters, they are orange and lovely. i saw some deer today too. not quite as exciting as elk though.

running home

Ran one of the training courses. Fredrik shadowed me and gave me some tips which was good. So hard to run through. On top of the ridge with lots of heather stuff. I need to try to simplify the map more. So much detail to read that it slows me down heaps.

Intervals on the middle training map. Really nice and fastish running north-south but getting across the marshes was shit. Some of it was mapped a bit weirdly. Open and green werent really mapped at all. Really cool terrain though,

Running home. Massively stacked it just after I had finished and was on my way back. Had to go down some huge cliffs and got my leg stuck between rocks. Consequently a huge lump on my shin.

Club training with sävedalens. Just ran slowly round the lighted track.

2x800 intervals. didnt want to do anything too strenuous.

running from Fredriks to the map and back

holy crap. this took me a lot longer than i had planned. awesome map though. I saw two elk!!! that made my day.

tough to run through but still nice. It has been pissing down so I basically swam through the marshes. It reminds me a little bit of st. helens. I could actually read this map a lot better than the stóckholm maps. Got really confused in a very intricate part of the course and got scared in a foggy marsh so ran to a track and went to the next control. But apart from that was just so slow.

Last leg in the open team. One of the shittest runs ever. Was going okay until number 5, had to cross a marsh and just totally didnt follow my compass right and went way to far to the left. Everything matched up okay fór a while, then when it didnt i had no idea where I was. Looking at the splits i lost 10min!!! Otherwise I would have had an okay time. Our team was doing really well before that as well. Blow.