25 декабря 2010 г.

15k test

Last Tuesday 21th I ran 15k test. There is nice park area quite near to my students apartment in Minsk. There are many stony tracks. I took 2k lap with about 20 meters elevation there and started with this exercise. It was not so cold weather but tracks where on some parts with ice. I had to be careful with stability and balance. I never ran before 15k as test so I was a bit excited of this. I decided for first time take the pace about 3'30 and see what happens. I ran all the way with stable pace 3'36 and HR 171-175. My time is 54:44. I felt very good during the race but day after that I started to feel pain on back side of my legs. This pain was because I ran too much on the hard floor. This pain I had for a few days but it does not give me any problems with trainings - it gone away everytime after good warm up.
At least I have point of beginning for these tests.

12 декабря 2010 г.

Real winter

On Saturday I was on Belarussian middle Champ 2007 map. Again in my hometown. I ran middle distance training. It was 6.1k  with 18 controls. A few days ago we had rain. So now snow has the crust. In the marches it was 30-40 of snow and it was not so easy to run and breake quite hard crust. This kind of running works effectively but only by smart way. I must be careful with this.
There is a good map from Championship 2007. There is mostly white open forest with nice scandinavian marches. Another side - orienteering there is not hard. High speed helps a lot with this side but not now.
I had 42:31 almost without mistakes.

9 декабря 2010 г.

Last Sunday

Last Sunday was first night training with the snow. It was not so much of snow but it makes some changes.
We had individual start on Trosno lake area. It was 7k with 22 controls, map without paths and small roads. First mistake came with first control . A bit less than 30sec.  Than I ran good untill number 8 where I ran too much to the right. At least 1 minute. Number 14 I miissed because I have not seen the reflex stick. I spend some time over there. I got not less than 1.30 minutes. After that I had normal race. I was not so fast: 51:37 with about 3 minutes of mistakes. My max HR was 164.

4 декабря 2010 г.

The snow overtaking

For this weekend I am at my parents place in Polatsk. I try to be here as much times as I can at least during the winter. Of course it's hard to be without pancakes from my mum =)
Winter is already in Belarus but our region was free of snow. I realy  would like to rest into the forest without white color but it came last night. This morning I spent with big shovel around our house. It gives me just more power)

2 декабря 2010 г.

New season is coming. MS Parma

From this week I  started "officially" my season. November was more less period of rest for me but anyway I done quite much trainings. Some words about last season. It was quite good for me but I am not satisfied with many details in my preparation. During season 2009-2010 I had about 510 hours. I have done 371 trainings, 43% of them are orienteering, 67 exercises with low intensity. If I separate winter season and season of competitions -  than I had 20% orienteering in winter time and 61% during competitions. 
For new season I will change a bit my system but mostly I will go follow the same line. 
New season is begining for me with finnish club MS Parma which is located in Turku region. For three years I was running for Savedalens AIK in Sweden. In the end of season 2010 I decided to switch club.
I hope I have enough energy to keep my improvement in orienteering! Let's go!