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Marathon Spectating
Saturday, July 5th, 2008O-festivalen
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008We’ve spent this weekend competing in the O-festivalen competition held at Siggerud on the outskirts of Oslo (not far from the IBM office). I went to Friday’s middle distance race on my own. It made a pleasant change not having to go off at one end or other of the start block and with minute intervals I was actually able to race round most of the course. It still took me just under 10 mins/k but with only a couple of minutes lost at the first control I was pleased with my run.
Nordmarka Skogsmaraton
Saturday, June 14th, 2008Not last at orienteering!
Sunday, June 8th, 2008We went to Nydalens’ Nydalten event today. This seemed to primarily be about the juniors’ Trimtex Cup match with some courses for adults sandwiched in the middle. Unfortunately this meant that, despite having put us at opposite ends of the start block, we had just 80 minutes for me to get round my 10k course and for Christine to do the 2k to the start. As Christine has kindly pointed out, I failed to do even my part in under 80 minutes and she consequently missed her run.
Laces my undoing
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Marathon training
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Linderudkollen
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Our babysitters headed off back home this afternoon so it was Christine’s turn to run at the Nordmarkskarusellen up at Linderudkollen whilst I took Emma out in the back pack. It was a very pleasant evening to be out and about although I picked some rather narrow tracks to try and negotiate with Emma who probably got the odd poke in the side from a pine tree. Christine seems not to have mentioned on her blog that she failed to beat my last place from the previous week. She made the same mistake of taking two controls out of sequence but, unlike me, couldn’t be bothered to correct her error.
Waves at Sognsvann
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008With Christine’s parents here to babysit, both Christine and I could run at Sognsvann tonight and both decided to run two laps. Having emerged from the toilets just before the off it had completely passed me by that there were a number of start waves and I just joined in at the front. With most competitors racing round just the one lap it was quite difficult pacing myself and, with no-one around me for most of the second lap, I was definitely slowing. When two guys did eventually come past me, there was no chance that I could keep up. I’m assuming in hindsight, that they started in a later wave but rather embarrassingly they did also continue on to do a third lap. The eventual time on the clock was 24:35 which doesn’t sound so bad.
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