After WOC is before WOC..
Tuesday, 1. September 2009, 20:07:40
..so now we are i Trondheim, preparing for WOC 2010! Exactly 7 days after the WOC09 we landed in Trondheim to prepare for next year. Together with the Swiss team we'll do a bit more than a week of training, testing and competing. The weather forecast has been really depressing, with nothing else than rain to offer, but at least today it has been dry and we have even seen the sun!!
So far we have done three session. Yesterday evening a "taster course" with some controls in the marshes, some in the green, hilly areas and some at stony details. It was a beautiful area, but pretty wet and end the end pretty dark. First session today was a kind of mixture between very detailed areas with many controls and longer legs with less fine orienteering. It was on a 1:15 000 map and I had huge problems just reading the map. Not to talk about finding the controls.. Well, I left some minutes out there and got really depressed. This kind of orienteering I used to handle very well, but it looks like I have got a bit too used to continental terrain. Second session was a orienteering-in-the marshes-session and this is how orienteering make fun! It was one of the most beautiful sessions ever, I enjoyed the training from the very beginning to the very end. The legs were a bit heavy after the 100 minutes in the morning, but the technique worked very well, i made to small mistakes, one because I was to lazy to read the control description and one due to chickening out in the green hillside. Things to work on tomorrow.
Last week I spent at home, doing not much more than eating, eating, eating (also a lot off self-picked blueberries!), cuddling with the dogs, training and sleeping. It was really nice being home for a whole week again, seeing family and friends and I even got to run the club championship, which I haven't done for years. It wasn't a good run, bit it was great fun and the cakes we got in the finish were heavenly good! Competitions should always end with something hot to drink, a good cake and a fire to gather around!
So far we have done three session. Yesterday evening a "taster course" with some controls in the marshes, some in the green, hilly areas and some at stony details. It was a beautiful area, but pretty wet and end the end pretty dark. First session today was a kind of mixture between very detailed areas with many controls and longer legs with less fine orienteering. It was on a 1:15 000 map and I had huge problems just reading the map. Not to talk about finding the controls.. Well, I left some minutes out there and got really depressed. This kind of orienteering I used to handle very well, but it looks like I have got a bit too used to continental terrain. Second session was a orienteering-in-the marshes-session and this is how orienteering make fun! It was one of the most beautiful sessions ever, I enjoyed the training from the very beginning to the very end. The legs were a bit heavy after the 100 minutes in the morning, but the technique worked very well, i made to small mistakes, one because I was to lazy to read the control description and one due to chickening out in the green hillside. Things to work on tomorrow.
Last week I spent at home, doing not much more than eating, eating, eating (also a lot off self-picked blueberries!), cuddling with the dogs, training and sleeping. It was really nice being home for a whole week again, seeing family and friends and I even got to run the club championship, which I haven't done for years. It wasn't a good run, bit it was great fun and the cakes we got in the finish were heavenly good! Competitions should always end with something hot to drink, a good cake and a fire to gather around!
WIDGETIZE