Our 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.
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Linderudkollen
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Waves 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.
Sognsvann Øst
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Yesterday evening we made it out to the Nordmarkskarusellen at Korsvoll school. I went orienteering and then Christine ran home afterwards. My main aim for the evening was just to take it steady and not make any major stuff-ups. I failed!
New role as women’s pacemaker
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008While hunting around for events to enter we came across Sportsklubben Rye’s Ryeløpet. This is a 5k race around Kongeskogen, Bygdøy. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I arrived yesterday evening, half an hour before the appointed time. The online details were a bit scant. I’d made a bank transfer but wasn’t totally convinced I’d even managed to enter successfully.
Holmenkollstafetten
Sunday, May 11th, 2008Over lunch at the IBM office one day I had managed to get myself on to the reserve list for the Software Group team for Holmenkollstafetten. This is an annual 15 person relay around the streets of Oslo which, with a total distance of just 18km, manages to attract a massive entry. If you live in Oslo and are not running yourself you almost certainly know someone who is. As predicted, the drop out rate in our team was pretty high and in the week beforehand I was called up.
Active week
Friday, May 2nd, 2008It’s been an active week so far. Tuesday night was an Oslo City Cup race at Godliaparken on the west side of Oslo. A 1:5000 sprint race map again with a mix of fast woodland and open areas around the school and flats. My biggest mistake of the night was at the third control where I was a bit to the right. This cost me a whole 23 seconds but was enough for the guy who started 15 seconds behind me to catch up. I then spent the rest of the race desperately clinging on – my legs tired from two hilly runs at the weekend – only staying in touch by avoiding his small mistakes. Although only less than three minutes down on the winner, I’m still in the middle of the results. I think I’d be pushing it to run 3km in 13 minutes in terrain even if I didn’t have to find 19 controls!
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Svalerød shocker
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
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Shopping, sights and snow
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
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