Saturday was my first big international race of the season. It was a very strong field in the elite class with a lot of top guys, 190 runners in total. Judging from the names in the start list I aimed …
Nord Jysk 2 Dages
I have mixed feelings about my performance this weekend. Physically my runs were very good. However, my orienteering was shockingly bad. The first day was at Tornby. It was a bit green in some places and had some intricate sand …
Hallandsstafatten + Hallandspremiæren
I traveled with my club (Pan Århus) to Halland in the south of Sweden on the weekend. The idea was to get some good training in before Tiomila. On the Friday night we had a night race. My run wasn’t …
Orienteering Season Begins
Today was the first event in the 2009 Danish orienteering season. It was a B class event… whatever that means.. I think Danish championships are A class. The first thing I have to say is the map was very green …
Carnage Hill… worth the fun???
Carnage Hill (NZ’s main tourist attraction) was the finish chute for a competition held in Woodhill forest in New Zealand in around 2004 (If I remember correctly). It is so named for all of the carnage seen that day… novice …
WRE Middle and Long Distance – Spain
I said I would write about my WRE, but I don’t really want to. It was a shocker of a run for me, and the most annoying part is that if I took off my 7mins of mistakes I would’ve …
Training Camp in Spain
What an awesome week! It was so good to escape the dreary danish weather for a little while and learn how to read a map again. The program was pretty full on, so naturally the week went really quickly.First up …
Flogged by Feebling Fever
After months of training in this ridiculously cold, wet weather, I finally got beaten down. I guess you could say I’m ‘under the weather’, but that doesn’t really make sense. Being under the weather is what made me sick.. now …
More Winter Trainings :)
Training is going well now. Im already starting to feel stronger and faster 😀 The local clubs have been taking turns at organising trainings every Saturday. There was an interesting one that you can see on the ‘onsebakker’ map. It …
Winter Training
With the winter festives nearly over, training is starting to build up again. I am now being coached by Klavs Madsen. He was previously in the Danish team and was national coach for the Danish team for some years, and …