Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Some catching up to do - three days of public races - but not tonight. Still not feeling fully recovered post-sprint, i.e. have been feeling mediocre physically all week since my qualifier on Sunday (at least I felt pretty good during that). Maybe should have skipped some WOC tour races or done shorter open courses? Possibly sick? Hopefully it not the latter and two full days and a bit of rest before the sprint on Tuesday will be restorative. Otherwise, I fear I'll be physically flat in the World Cup races at O-ringen and post mediocre (for me - no illusions about not being mediocre at best compared to the rest of the field) results even if I navigate well.

WOC Tour H21E Day 3 - middle distance in enjoyable woods. Didn't do anything too stupid other than exiting my 15th control inattentively and running some extra distance when I therefore ended up at the wrong intersection of roads and trails to start the trail running portion of the longest leg of the course. Lost lots of time to the best split on that, though it would have been a fair bit even without the stupidity - I got outrun by 52 seconds on the big climb leg to the 5th control. Think I'm a bit worn down physically so more food and sleep tonight. Although the times for me and the winner are pretty similar to mine and Oli Johnson's at Batsto, which I regarded as a pretty good race with one bad leg (maybe two minutes lost, IIRC) at the time, so maybe I'm exaggerating my perceived rundownness.

Excited about watching the other Canadians in the middle qualis (and, I expect, final or maybe even finals tomorrow).

WOC Tour H21E Day 2 - very diferent race from yesterday's. Less steep in a more coniferous forest with vague contours and rides created by forestry all over the place. Totally blew up on the seventh control and didn't take proper advantage of my first god chance to relocate, deluded by a belief that I'd only drifted a little bit to the right of my intended path. Just over 8 minutes lost there. Otherwise, I don't think I did anything too bad but I still would have been farther back than seems quite satisfactory. But tomorrow's another race and I'd better get to sleep nowish if I want it to go better.

WOC Tour H21E Day 1 - a decent race in much more enjoyable woods than the map I visited on Friday. Didn't feel like I was pushing quite as hard as i hope I would have been able to manage in an important race but some allowance for having sprinted on Sunday seems justified. Tomorrow's race will be similar, in length if not necessarily entirely in terrain and course setting style. The remaining four after that will be middles. This will be my first European multi-day competition in which I actually race all the days. Looking forward to the rest of it.