Training ON
Since WOC I have spend most of my time in Standby mode. Except those few times I woke up to run some competition. But since last Saturday and coming to Finland training is on my schedule again.
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WC joy & more
Nothing big has happened lately. Since WOC I have done only very few real training sessions and those were all orienteering events I occasionally used to keep myself going.
In short –
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Surreal France
Somehow most of my experiences during WOC remind me about works of famous surrealist Mr. Dali. Familiar and well known things, shapes and forms where twisted, bent and finally put together in unimaginable combinations. Confused by it all I was quite far from being able to focus on main task – orienteering.
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Sauna party
Another sweaty week is gone. HOT track workouts are done. Tanning (and training) went perfect. What’s next? Jukola. Before? Good rest should be the best.
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Chemin de Conjux
Just like most of world top orienteering athletes (I dare to count myself in) I was in France to take part in official WOC training camp. I and LOST (Latvian Orienteering Super Team) did well in both-long distance competition and training wise.
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Tough schedule
Putting my running activities aside and concentrating my training on WOC doesn’t necessarily mean that I have more time. I have got orienteering related plans for every week till mid of July starting with exclusive Jukola training camp for me and Kalvis CK Mihailovs this weekend continued by Baltic championships, 10 day training camp in France, Latvian championships, 5000m track race, Jukola, midsummer party (hopefully in Norway), Kapa 3 days, Positivus festival (who else?) and full time job of course.
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Rise and rise again
Well, I guess I never learn from own mistakes, do I? Until now. I have been on „free” mode for three weeks already which means I am training when I really want to and my activities are based on cross training mostly.
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Very nice, I like!
Summer is approaching with every minute here in Albufeira and I am trying to evaluate things before they are gone. I have one week left before we return to snowy Riga and indoor track which will be our daily playground for next months.
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It’s been a while
Not much has happened lately except highlight of autumn 2010 European cross country championships in Albufeira, Portugal. I had never participated in international athletic championships before, so it came with great excitement and I gained a lot of experience to use in future.
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Lake Garda
Did I reach my goal? A peak race? Well, YES and NO. Yes, because I felt strong through entire race and was able to keep up with desired pace most of time.
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Missing piece
Lately I have heard a lot of requests for news on my web page. Well I have been quite busy-somebody has to do the hardest part- training.
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Test race, UK
I went to Peterborough looking for new PB on halfmarathon. I knew that even getting close to that would make me believe in myself and my new training program.
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Nordic Walking
That’s what World Cup turned out to be. At least for me. Partly it’s down to fact that I am now preparing for road races and did hard running sessions during week, but mostly it’s because of detailed terrain and map scale used for long distance race.
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Halfwater marathon
I spent whole week recovering from sickness and painful Nike Riga Run race. I was also considering whether to run Valmiera halfmarathon, but team mate Mareks solved my dilemma by offering to join him and run in training mode.
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Major Payne strikes again
Agony would be right word to describe feelings I experienced during last 600m of Nike Riga Run 10 km road race. Let’s go few days back.
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Comeback
On Sunday I participated in Latvian orienteering championships. This year relay was held at same place as European championships long distance final on 2008.
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My first
On RAINY Saturday’s morning I went for new experience and participated at Latvian championships in 10km road race. Strong rain remained during race and some parts of Jurmala’s streets were covered with water.
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Finally…
…I have posted my WOC maps with route choices (as well as wrong choices) and some comments. Right HERE. Missing piece is long distance qualification, but I promise to put it up soon.
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It’s good
Relay was last event and our final fight of tough world championships week in Trondheim. This time there were lot more roads, paths and other sights of civilization all over terrain and course layout was more „friendly” to our abilities.
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Die hard
I won’t lie saying that this was by far most challenging long distance in my life. Running whole course and getting to finish took a lot from me.
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Progress
Necessary time (3 days) required for adaptation is gone and I am really satisfied about qualifying for long distance final. It’s still physically tough, but I have improved a lot technically and feel like local compared to my middle distance performance.
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Middle
There are only few words for describing it, but I won’t type them here. Probably my will to qualify for middle final was too strong and so is disappointment for failing to do so.
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Beginning
I am forced to start with negative, but I hope for much better „to be continued”. I expected a lot more from organizers in means of quality and effort vs. price, but it seems that everyone likes to earn some money.
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Good training
My last training before leaving to WOC in Trondheim was 3000m during Latvian Athletics Association cup. It might appear to be a wired choice, but it gave me some idea about my physical condition.
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2010
The very beginning of 2010 was more than good – I had been in Spain for almost 3 weeks by then. I arrived just before Christmas and did some SERIOUS training sessions there. Returning back to Latvia came with a bit of a surprise – snow was still there and didn’t show any melting signs.
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