Training Log Archive: Giac

Fartlek with the track team (10x30sec/30sec, you can see some nice spikes in the pace on the Garmin data). Felt sick as usual, so coach got mad at me and told me that rest is part of training and that i should not run until Tuesday next week and think of properly recovering. Also my doctor told me to rest for a week, as did my parents...so maybe I will listen and just do it. Seems like a lot of wasted time, but it's probs wise. Biggest problem: what do people in the world do if they cannot go running after work???? : )

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Workout:

2x200
2x300
2x400
2x300
2x200

Workout just to move my legs a bit at the track, and to run with company. Both the doctor and my coach told me to rest, so I probably will take tomorrow off and this week generally easy.

I did go to Portugal this past week-end.

Despite the cold weather (considerably colder than France) and the clouds, the venues both days were incredible.
Huge boulders (where did they come from??) covered large areas of an otherwise mostly runnable forest in the Middle Distance, super-runnable Sprint with a map exchange area that felt a lot like a WOC race, a Long course that tested orienteers in all areas of the sport, combining the challenges of a very physically demanding terrain to multiple long-leg route choices and always very technical navigation inside the circles.

I would have loved to run well, and actually I'm still happy I went to see and partake in such amazing races, but rationally it would have probably been better and wiser if I had rested at home. I was still sick during the week-end , and now back in France I feel even more sick again and cannot stop coughing in my office. I'm a little worried and am going to see a doctor tomorrow.

My races were an absolute struggle, and made me kind of sad about how poor my physical conditions are right now. Only two weeks ago I was running 3k repeats under 3:40min/k and I couldn't move under 4:30 on a sprint, started light-jogging after 20min on the middle, and absolutely stopped and walked for 1:30h in the Long course to get back to the finish area. The long was actually probably dangerous to run for me, and looking back I will not run again a long course in these conditions. It's not that fun to walk and cough for a long time only to finish a race I had promised myself I would finish.

On the plane back, though, despite my health issues, which I will try to deal with now, I still had that same happy feeling that this sport gives me every time I race and explore new places. It's absolutely majestic to see SN-L and TG absolutely dominate these terrains, and also admire hundreds of other talented athletes come out of the forest showing very impressive runs and results. I already spent several hours dreaming of all the o-trips I will be able to do in the next few months, and also of all the ones I could do if only I could take unlimited amounts of days off work.

Hope to get better soon, maybe with a magic medicine, since Lipica Open is only two weeks away.

MCO Long Distance (WRE) - Portugal