Here you can see some typical Vihanti-terrain. This is a good location to start preparations for next year's WOC-long, don't you think? I am actually serious about this. With two o-sessions done on fast (but wet) moraine terrains, I was able to run 5min/km on today's training. Maybe I am not in that bad shape after all. But yeah, the main focus is to make long trainings at easy pace.
On Sunday I tested to orienteer with laser scanned material. The map was pretty harsh version, as you can see.
This same training included also some other funny features, especially when the temperature was +7C and it was raining like hell. Maybe this the real truth about Vihanti's terrain-type. Wild rosemary (the stuff on marshes) truly grows up to your balls.
Yesterday I made also third training - easy one - to check how the best open rock terrain in Vihanti looks like. Unfortunately our scanner somehow deleted all the gray from the map, but I assure you that there are rocky areas. Outstanding experience! When you would run top speed, you would definetely go under 8min/km. Well, let's say probably.
I will continue my trainings here at my home for a while now. I will most probably orienteer a lot, because I missed the whole autumn-season from competitions. It's maybe weird to do lot of orienteering and training (2-4 hrs/day) at this time of year, but as I said, I have a good reason. And maybe one should remember the cruel fact of endurance athletics: the progress continues all the time. There is no such thing as off-season (in terms of training).
Have a nice autumn!