Training Log Archive: Bash

Tourist day in Oslo, with expert guiding and advice from Cristina and Melissa.



First we went to Frogner Park, the most popular tourist attraction in Norway. It's the equivalent of Central Park for Oslo and contains over 200 statues by Gustav Vigeland. The work began in the 1920s and finished in the 1940s.



A couple of Facebook friends seemed a little shocked so here's a description from Wikipedia: "Most of the statues depict people engaging in various typically human pursuits, such as running, wrestling, dancing, hugging, holding hands and so on. However, Vigeland occasionally included some statues that are more abstract.."

The figures are all naked but mostly they aren't doing, um, naked things. This is a family park with kids crawling all over the more accessible statues.

We enjoyed assigning orienteering-related captions to a few of them. Feel free to play along at home!

"The control description said it would be in the *upper* part of the re-entrant. And the vegetation was thicker than you mapped it. I must have lost 3 minutes there."



"Woot! I punched the finish control first! Hope that F75 racer will be OK."



"Where the he## am I?"



"Congrats on your first win!



"I told you to stop following me!"



"I'm tired of the Adventure Running Kids winning all the O Cup races!"



We spent the afternoon at the fascinating Fram Museum, which contains the amazing old wooden ship "Fram" that Roald Amundsen sailed when he was the first to reach the South Pole, just ahead of the Scott expedition. So cool - we could walk all around the outside and inside of this historic vessel. The museum also covered the Fram's other expeditions and displayed another of Amundsen's ships "Gjoa" that spent two winters in Canada's Gjoa Haven. There were artifacts, photos and information from other early polar explorers and expeditions too. My kind of place!



As difficult as it was to sail to the poles, Amundsen's kayak trip sounded even more nervewracking.



View of Oslo Fjord behind the museum.



Maybe it's just as well that Cristina and Melissa have *not* chosen Norwegian restaurants for dinner so far. We've had terrific pizza and dim sum. 'Bent and I did have some mackerel on bread for breakfast though, with fantastic, strong coffee.



Off to Lillehammer at 6:30 a.m.

After collecting some great ideas for hotel room workouts, I noticed this sign in the lobby.



Yeah, sure, I've seen hotel gyms before. So we went down to check and... wow. This photo shows only half the gym. So 'Bent and I worked out before dinner. We leave Oslo in the morning so those other workouts will still come in handy.

Dinner and intro to Oslo with Cristina and Melissa - yay!

Drinking cappuccino in Frankfurt and trying to wake up. We were in a row where the seats don't go back much (yawn). That's OK. Sleep has never been my strong point!

Short run in the sunshine to get warmed up after a long day of last minute tasks and cleaning for the house sitter.

Slowrunner workout.

Do you have a favourite hotel or "prison" workout?

Really sad news. Robson Gmoser, one of the best-known, most experienced and most popular mountain guides in Western Canada, was killed in an avalanche Tuesday afternoon near Sorcerer Lodge, a remote ski cabin near Golden, B.C. He was 45.

Robson was our ski guide at Assiniboine Lodge one time - a super nice guy and as knowledgeable about avalanches as anyone. The avalanche risk was "moderate" and there hadn't been an avalanche in the area for weeks. Be careful out there, Revy, Carbon, Carbon's Offset, Myka, Slice, Ang, VO2Max and Urthbuoy!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/popul...

Ten years ago today on March 12, 2005, I started my Attackpoint training blog. I've logged all my training and racing since then. As expected, this data has been useful for planning and analysis, checking recovery time from past injuries, reviewing GPS tracks and all the things you would expect from a training log.

But beyond that, Attackpoint has introduced me to friends around the world and close to home, strengthened our relationships as we share our day-to-day lives with one another, and given me access to a wealth of information, experience and even teammates.

Back in 2005, Attackpoint had already been around for 5 years and was mostly used by orienteers, most of whom knew each other in the real world. Adventure racers were scarce. Since then, the AP community has expanded to include athletes in many sports in different countries and has become a great place to meet and exchange ideas with other adventure racers. For a number of AR World Series races, the AP discussion thread has become the best place to follow the event. APers around the world watch GPS tracks and post information and analysis while APers in other time zones sleep. Those have been some of my favourite (and most obsessive) times on AP. :)

Over time, this has become my blog, not a log. I started posting photos here in 2009 when we did the Rock & Ice Ultra in Yellowknife. It's been fun to create race reports here, mostly documenting memories for myself but it is sometimes fun to "write" my AP log in my head while I'm training, knowing there is a group of like-minded people who will laugh with me - or at me, depending on what went wrong that day!

I appreciate that people here aren't afraid to tell me if they think I'm on the wrong path. I value your wisdom. I also value your friendship; I now share much more here than just my training. Thank you.

It's amazing how many times I've been approached by someone who recognizes me from AP. It's also been cool to share hugs with some APers the first time I met them in real life since I felt like I already knew them so well.

So what was that first training session I logged 10 years ago? It was an ARC winter adventure race at Hardwood Hills - ski / bike / snowshoe with navigation. Hammer, Tarno and Rydlo? won the team event. I just missed winning the solo overall in a field of 26 solos, mostly male. I still consider it to be my best adventure race result ever. 'Bent raced solo and also started his AP log 10 years ago today. Timato was there too and started logging his training the next week.
http://ar.attackpoint.org/viewlog.jsp/user_920/per...

Huge thanks to Ken for his caring, intelligent stewardship of our large, varied and demanding online community. He has always been there when I needed any help here. This calls for a special anniversary donation to AP!
http://ar.attackpoint.org/donate.jsp

A good blog post that is relevant to many issues: "Scientific Consensus: Most People Don’t Understand It, and That’s Why Everything is a Mess"
https://gokaleo.com/2015/03/10/scientific-consensu...

Gorgeous sprinter day! Too warm to ski so I thought I'd find out whether winter sports and strength training have done much to prepare me for upcoming ultras. I don't like to run much in winter when there are so many other fun things to do. I'm like Kilian that way. ;) There is a very short list of *other* ways in which Kilian and I are alike, e.g. we both have ears.

Most of this was running on back roads that ranged from gravel to goopy mud to ice to packed snow (in Albion Hills). About 2.5 km was on rail trail and a closed road where I slogged through ankle-deep slush and mashed potato snow. For this time of year, it was a relatively runnable route with enough hills and scenery to feel like a trail run. It felt good, even on the uphills, so the strength training seems to help - and so did the Spikecross. Beauty weather!

Skiing will end soon so it's time to add some summer multi-sport training to the mix.

Training session with Slowrunner. I bought a heavier dumbbell on the way home, which is a good sign!

One nice thing about rest days... there's time to plan more fun in the woods! I'm racing Raid The Rib with new ultra-teammates: Virginia and Charlotte. It's pretty clear who's going to be on the back of the tow rope! :)

Rest day - ahhh. Not off to a good start since I couldn't sleep with the time change, even though I tried taking melatonin.

Sean of Team DART Nuun posted this article on training recovery on Kyle's log last week. The graphs are worth a thousand words. http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Supercompensation