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2010-07-31 O-Ringen - boost for my self-confidence just one week before WOC
Even if I had been feeling fine after a couple of weeks of good training, it was still a positive surprise for me to finish 2nd at O-Ringen. I had four stable performances (E1, E3-E5) and one rather bad (E2). I did not feel that I was running very fast in the forest and most of the time I was pretty careful and almost scared to make mistakes. It seems to be the right tactics. I was experiencing this flow-feeling a lot - focused and relaxed at the same time. I was also recovering well between the races. No doubt I am in a good shape and hopefully it can still improve a bit after some resting and interval training during the coming days.
All maps from O-Ringen in my map archive
Some articles and video from O-Ringen:
Jurenikova nöjd tvåa (Dalademokraten)
Andersson and Niggli crowned at O-Ringen (Ultimate orienteering)
Simone Niggli överlägsen vinnare (SVT webTV)
Ingen rår på suveräna Simone (SOFT article + webTV)
2010-07-23 The art of peaking
After a high volume block with many hours of orienteering in Sälen and Trondheim I switched to more intense training in the beginning of this week. I have done 2 "test sessions" - on Tuesday 4*1000m on track with 3 minutes rest/jogging and on Thursday 4*700m steep hill "Medvägabacken" with 110m climbing. I know my times from the past so I can compare and get a hint about my physical shape. Of course it does not give me the whole picture, 1km intervals on a track and long distance in Trondheim is not the same but it increases my self-confidence when I can see that my times are improving. Today I will travel to Örebro to participate in O-Ringen. The race fits well in my peaking plan - the terrain is not completely different from Trondheim and I know that racing of this kind should improve my shape even more. I will try to do my best, concentrate properly at the time of the race but I am saving my mental energy and I am not thinking about O-Ringen before and in between the stages. Then there is the last week before WOC. In the previous years I sometimes did not allow myself to take it easy enough, training quite hard almost until the WOC races. I am still hesitating and I will decide about the plan for the last days after I get home from O-Ringen. Sometimes it would be nice to have a coach who could decide instead of me but at the same time I am the one who knows my body best and I also should have the necessary knowledge after all the years of training and studying.
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Right now I am listening to the WUOC online and hoping for some more good results from the Czech team. My club was organizing the WUOC Tour sprint race on Wednesday. The arena was located only 1km from my home. It was a bit special feeling to see runners from so many different countries running on my home ground. I hope they have been enjoying the whole WUOC. It seems Stora Tuna OK has done a great job organizing the event. They showed the big variation of terrain here in Dalarna, which makes Dalarna a really good place to live for an orienteer. Perhaps some of the WUOC participants got interested to move here.
My photos from WUOC Sprint / DM sprint
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