Training Log Archive: Jagge

Sore throat, no fever.

My 5 days maps without routes are here:
http://www.routegadget.net/gpsoblog/cgi-bin/reitti...

I'll post my gps tracks later.

EDIT: Added GPS for day 1 and 2.

First half of day 2 is one of the toughest courses I have ever run. Also making route choice for the long leg was something far over my experience. Would have been fun race without those blisters.

DVOA Jukola training course, picked up streamers. First control was missing but the rest of them were still threre, some of them had dropped to the ground.

I logged this as O, but I ran withot map&compass. Minna navigated, I just followed an picked streamers. Nice weather.

C • Without map or compass... 2

The usual 6 km test run:
http://www.routegadget.net/run/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?...

Before trip to Italy I ran it 20 sec faster. I ran well first half, but I couldn't keep the pace. I guess I am not fully recovered yet.

I wrote some time ago about a spreading method idea for long individual races with start interval.

Some people at our O federation has taken it more seriously than I expected. A federation work group had discussed about it in an official meeting before Jukola, they considered it promising enough for some field tests. They are planning to try it in an training event somewhere with non elite runners and possibly try it as training with some sort of elite group also.

Quite funny. Who knows, I may end up running these loops one day.

Event: WMOC 2007
 

We ate one cheese and one sausage and tried to bring the rest all the way to Finland, barely managed to put it all in out bags. Food were in a pretty warm during the all day train & fly trip to Helsinki, so I guess I'll get food poisoning soon. But I hope drinking a lot of grappa will help.

Home at Monday 3:15 AM.

C • Mmmmm 2

5th day of the '5 days of the Fortresses'.

5.5 km with chase start. I continued with my successful 2 compeed tactics. I started 5th, 3 min behind fourth and about 15 min ahead of 6th. I felt very tried from the beginning and made some 15-20 sec mistakes at couple of first controls. I soon realised I will never catch anybody and nobody will catch me, so I ended up just trying to survive the course all the way to finish. This trekking attitude affected my navigation and I made one big and stupid mistake. But I wasn't brain dead enough to boom 15 minutes, I am too lazy to for that, so I ended up 5th. 4th guy, Jonas Pärsson from Sweden, ran quite well like he did every day expect day 4, so I really never had any chance against him.

There was 5 prizes, I hot ham, cheese, candy and cookies. Minna was second in D21AK and she won days 2 and 4. She got every time ham, cheese, bad smelling but good tasting sausages, cookies, candy, pasta, wine, grappa etc.