Training Log Archive: salal

Bike toodle up a nearby hill in Breisach with Thomas and Olav

Long run to the start

Running andrea's course, nice and short... but felt tired and not focused. Slightly late to the start, had to go up the late shute... thought I still started on the right minute, but they made me punch some late box thingy. Did have problems finding the first control, lots of tracks and vague. Another control I got off on my compass and wandered before hitting the trail.

Warm up map

Was not sure how I would feel, but once I started running I felt generally good. Still a bit of a tired feeling going uphill but able to push through. Felt I navigated well in general, finding the controls well in the forest with not much hesitation (using linear features to help me get through crappy vegetation areas).
- Not sure about my route to 4, there might have been one to the right that had less climb.
- Also, fumbled a bit on the last loop, including getting way to the south of 23... misread the trails/rides.

Got passed by the girl behind me between 5-6 (saw her at 5, and the girl I had caught glommed onto her... but I took a slightly different route). Then saw Sam (and the other two girls) first coming out of 6 when I was going in. I must admit I was happy to see her, as I had no real gauge of how the race was going and was getting a bit demoralized from being passed by the girl who started behind me... so it gave me a bit of a boost. Then started to see her ahead a few controls later and passed her from 10-11, and we ran close to each other for a bit after that.

Short warm down with sam

Long final model, feeling pretty tired and walked for the first bit (counting the part I was running). Slept a lot, Andrea kept commenting that every time she saw me I was asleep... ;)

On warm up map

Far far too slow and cautious... scared from all my screw ups yesterday, and trying to have flow but not pushing it enough for in a woc final. Also, need to figure out how to be less nervous and sleep more... as I was pretty tired by the third day of competition, and I still kept waking up wayyy early and all nervous.

On warm up map

Not the best race, I screwed up about half the controls... things just did not click today. Surprised to be in the final.

On warm up map

Long qualification - good race, managed to use trails and cuts off trails pretty well.

warm down

Event: WOC 2012 - Lausanne SWITZERLAND
 

Middle quali model

Some walking around the long quali model, and some faster running around with Magnus following me.

Running around on the field after with some strides