It's been a while since my last blog
update. This is because of some personal concerns as well as uncertainty about
the future. It's hard to make any plans or set goals when you don't know
anything about your future work, income, possibilities to train and orienteer
or even your country of residence for that matter. It looks like our
adventure in UK is approaching to its end and we need to seek for new
challenges. Exciting but nerve cracking. World is your oyster type of living is
fascinating but also a bit stressful if you want to set goals and make
commitments to work towards them. I've still got energy and motivation to
continue my orienteering career but right now I'm in a place of big uncertainty
and inability to make decisions or commitments. Frustrating.
I will continue dreaming about running WOC
long distance in Italy to push myself forward and to train hard, but everything
else remains open. Had I been selected to the national team, it would have been
an easy decision for me to spend January in South Africa and February in
Portugal together with the team training 100% towards EOC & WOC in
near to perfect conditions with professional help, ready-made O-trainings, and
masseur on hand. Luxurious? For an orienteer, yes, it surely is. But now that
I'm out I will have to organize and finance everything myself. In other words I
have to keep it plain and simple.
My dreams are in the future but I'm very
much living the now. Last week it meant that I booked cheap last-minute flights
to Lisbon and took an extended weekend off to do a short mini training camp in
EOC relevant terrains in Portugal. Whatever happens in the coming months I've
already got these few valuable technical training sessions in my bag for the
spring. Something to remember and to look forward to during the long and dark winter
months...Weekend was successful training-wise and also a lovely break from
December darkness!
