Ups and Downs
28.3.2010 - (918 views)
To summarize my last few weeks I can say that there were many Ups but unfortunately peppered with some Downs as well. It started with a disastrous performance at MOC in Italy and ended now with a very good training week topped by a victory in a running competition. So at least I am very positive with respect to the upcoming season, my physical shape has never been so good and also technically the curve points up...
Trainingcamp Italy
In the end of february I was in a training camp with the National team in Southern Italy near Bari. High technical orienteering in Foresta Umbra, full concentration in the historical centres of some Italian towns and compass and bushes in the coastal forests - this is the short sum up of our 10 days in our southern neighbouring country.
After Portugal and fast staight line orienteering I started by having big troubles orienteering around in Foresta Umbra where you have to stay on the map all the way from control to control. Fortunately things were going better and better from training to training, too bad the we started with the most important copmpetition...
The highlight however were the sprint races and the organization including several aperos after the races. Organization was fantastic and that just for the Swiss and Finnish team! And also the races and trainings in these nice ancient towns was just great. We started in Peschici, going over to Vico, sprinting around Castellanetta, trying our luck in Matera and finishing in Monopoli.
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Night Champs and Strongrun
In the week after the training camp I was able to recover very good from the tough week in Italy and so my performance in the annual test on the treadmill I could improve quite a lot compared to previous years. Seems like I can be very happy with my winter training.
But also the next Down came: The Swiss Night O Champs were held with massstart this year and I was looking forward to some man-against-man fight in the forest. Too bad it turned out to be not at all what I expected. I was running alone from control 1 until 29 of 34! One has to add that I am not very selfconfident alone at night and so I lost 14 minutes to the winner Daniel Hubmann and finished 14th...
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Luckily the next day already provided the next "Up": I started at the Strongman Run in Thun, a mixture between cross run and obstacle course. Although I was beaten by some "non-orienteer" it was fun after all and quite a good training for orienteering too with all the rhythm breaks and all the mud :-)
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Ready for the season
I finished my winter training with a last week with lots of running hours, completed by a running competition yesterday over 11.5km and some 200m climbing. I could push almost all the way win the race. And even if all the "fast guys" were running the 10k Championship race in Payerne I was very satisfied because my time was not too bad...
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Snow again?
Next friday I will travel to Sweden to get again some technical inputs. So I'm hoping for not too much snow, but we'll see and stay flexible...
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