Training Log Archive: Rosstopher

I knew that we would be spending the whole day driving so I wanted to get some training in early before work. So I headed over to run backbanan and after getting a little lost I made it to the start. I wore my X-talons- which are falling apart - and set out at a hard pace but pretty conservatively too, because I wanted to have enough left to push the 2nd half. I came through the middle in 13:20 and felt great the whole way. I finally did the whole thing without getting lost!

Maybe next time I can beat Boris's fastest.

Janne's backbana in Uppsala - Splits

Running over to the clubhouse, stopping at my favorite tree to load up on apples. When you are taking apples from someone else's tree it is called pallaning ( I might be spelling that wrong) but apparently it's borderline okay if the branch hangs over the fence.

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Quite a long jog from the parking to the start triangle.

A really fun training on Hagby, starting out with Erik, Sam, and Kristina, and then promptly getting confused by the scale and vegetation and thus running well past the first control. Ah well, I turned around and got back into the swing of things, but an embarrassing way to start. On two I was on the right feature, but needed to check my descriptions in order to figure out which side of the hill the control was hung on. Overran 4, but 5-8 were quite clean. I wasn't running too fast because I was anxious about rolling over on my left ankle after the two times I rolled it on Sunday. I found Boris and Kristina at the end of the first loop, and then we set out for 9. I swung way too far right, and then got confused about where I should be expecting to find the reentrant, crossing the area too many times in the process. Boris was waiting at 10, to convince me that it was too dark to safely orienteer and so Kristina, Boris and I jogged back to the cars, stopping by control 15, which was a challenging crepuscular control.

So, I had a half-hatched plan to go run the testbanan and actually learn where it goes, but then I stayed too long at work. The work day schedule was a bit funny so the gels I poured in the morning were still waiting for me when I got back from the animal facility at 4pm... I didn't want to waste them so I loaded and ran the gels while I practiced some Swedish on Quizlet (which, incidentally, is a really neat site). So I took the photos, and then printed them out, but the printouts were oddly missing some of the lanes on my gel. I had to go, and wait for the computer to be free again to discover that the default setting on from the gel computer is to crop all the photos to fit the page better... Not so good when I have already cropped each photo.

Anyway, I got home and collected a Boris and we went out for a nice jog around the neighborhood, saw some beasts, and came home in time for an excellent dinner with friends!

And speaking of quizlet, here is one that Boris made for me. Orienteering !

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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.

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