Training Log Archive: Rosstopher

Quick transition between work and home, and then jogging with Sam over to the clubhouse for Tuesday intervals.

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Warmup with about half the group, as there were two rival sets of intervals tonight. One set was doing woods intervals and the other group was doing trail intervals. Even split in half, our group had 23 people. The warmup was followed by a few drills, which seem to be the same everywhere, some ankle exercises, some high knees, butt kicks, pawing, and then one really new one that looked and felt like a Monty Python visit to the ministry of silly walks. I'm starting to meet and know people now, and the semester just started so there are other new people too. Including an Australian that is just orienteering with the club as cross training for kite boarding.

The workout was 6 x 2 mins (1 min rest) then 6 x 1 min (1 min rest) and finally 6 x 0.5 min (0.5 min rest) and the course was just loops around the Norbyskogan trails. A nice mix of up and down and flat, and also quite a lot of little kids doing their own training. The lead pack was Jan, Rasmus, and two or three guys I don't yet know, and for the first couple of intervals I was near the end of the pack, but then most of the guys slowed way down and I was running closer to the front. We actually stopped after each interval, with maybe a little jogging in a circle, before setting out on the next one. On our fifth 30 second piece we decided to stop at the top of the hill instead of at 30 seconds, which was the right attitude I think :)

When we were all done, we turned around and ran backward looking for the ladies, and then cooled down running as one big group again. I chatted with Simon, who is visiting from Denmark, and is studying organic farming methods and how to get phosphates back into the soil in an organic way.

Back to Blodstensvägen ( I'm getting pretty good at switching the keyboard to swedish letters) jogging with Sam and Lisa. Excellent day.