Training Log Archive: Shep

Jog (at 3.30am) from accommodation up to Jukola Center. Coffee, red bull, power bar + gel, then warmed up again for last leg of Jukola...

Last leg for Göteborg Majorna OK. Tough terrain, fairly physical, lots of green and some hills. Real technical on the hill tops, small knolls and marshes and bare rock. Unfortunately some of the guys had some ordinary races so I went out in 44th. Ran pretty well, started out with Jamie Stevenson and Mats Troeng. Didnt see Mats but ran with Jamie for a while till we had a long leg on a road and i couldnt keep up. Ran a few legs with some chatty Finnish guy (who even offered me a gel at one stage) until we had different splits. Coming out of the 5th last control with barely 1km to go i was in 34th place and i saw Jamie, Mats and Kramov (who i'd passed in some tricky green) coming into the dog-leg (course was full of cross-overs too). could i hang on with 2 world champions hunting me down? No. The 2nd last control was up on a rocky hill and trying to outrun two of the fastest guys in the world down to the last control was not something i would put any $$ on... i made a small (maybe 2mins) mistake in the same green area the other guys missed so i reckon i needed to be clean through there to stay ahead of them into the finish. Maybe at WOC...

C • WOC 4

Event: Jukola
 

Ran a course on a Jukola training map. Ran some legs hard, mostly just cruising though. Nice forest, and a real nice (warm) day.

Easy running around a course on Lunsen with Rob and Hammer. Nice day, nice forest, sweet sweet coffee after...

Jogging around Djurgarden.

Steady run in Stockholm City Cup final in Djurgården. Feeling quite good, not pushing just trying to get the feel for orienteering again. 2mins behind Novikov which i was happy with given how slowly i was running. Good fun. Felt real sick after the train trip from Gothenburg, a kanelbulle and coffee fixed me up good but not 100%.

Easy run from Uppsala station to Robs. Rob rode the whole way with the brakes on so he should be putting it in his AP log. The beer i had after the race stayed down which was good i suppose.

C • were you naked 2

Running up to map and back.

Easy running around a course on Mölndal Safjället. Typical Gothenburg terrain - i wanted a cruisy run but the forest needs you to be aggressive and tough which i wasnt... Legs are still a bit heavy from the trip over here, i wonder how they'd feel after a business class trip?

C • fresh as a daisy, feels like I... 1

Easy run on trails at Skatas with GMOK clowns. Watched them pump out some intervals while I stretched and pretended i'd flown all the way from some mystical paradise some 16000kms away. Jukola team meeting afterwards didnt have beer which pissed me off.