Training Log Archive: feike

I woke up at 9.30, oops.

OOcup - stage 5 - Open 1

One competitor, 2 days, 2 entries, 2 categories, SI-guru Sandi didn't really appreciate it I think ;-)

So today the long distance, same approach as yesterday, just a bit less risky route-choices. Again quite satisfied with the result, I actually won the Open1! As far as that counts, I would have been almost the last one in M21Long, but it's quite some time ago that I won the category in which I started ;-)

Control 11 : oh this sport is so cruel. On the way to 6 I had time to study the map in advance and saw that 11 was a hard one: I knew that I was lost in the same area before and totally no safe route here. On my way to 11 I was extra careful until I saw to my surprise another OK Trzin shirt (Mateja). I really thought I was the only one from Trzin, so it got me just for a moment. A moment too long. I picked up the wrong path after it and started to look too early for the control, lost more than 5 mins....

Logatec (Zapolje) - Martinj Hrib
Martinj Hrib - Logatec - Zaplana - Sentjost nad Horjulom - Polhov Gradec - Kamna Gorica - Crnuce - Kamnik

The not so easy way home, but almost everything was new and there are some nice parts to ride there. I wanted to go across Topol and Sv. Katarina, but that was way too much, so I took the easier way through the outskirts of Ljubljana. I was exhausted anyway.

OOcup - stage 4 - Open 2

Two days of open courses at OOcup as some kind of training. The fact that I could choose my own starttime was briljant, no worries about the time at all.
I missed the startprocedure though, waiting and concentrating in the boxes. And the beeps of course :-).
I took it easy, especially in the beginning. My choice of starting moment was maybe a bit unfortunate, 20 seconds before the later winner of W20, who totally overrun me before the first control, so it looked to me as if I lost a lot of time there, but splitbrowser told me I didn't.
As a practice I picked a few times the route straight to the line, even though I thought that running around on the path would be faster. I guess that was correct, cause I lost time on all of those controls. No huge booms however, that was a victory on itself for me :-)
Quite satisfied with my time, good run.

Logatec - Martinj Hrib
Martinj Hrib - Kalce - Godovic - Crni Vrh - Col - Kalce - Logatec

Big roads, but not that much of traffic. Loved the hairpins above Crni Vrh. Cool to pick a tiny little bit of Mediterranean "touch" in Col, you can actually see the Adriatic from there!
Was quite tired afterwards ....

Kamnik - Ljubljana - Notranje Gorice - Vrhnika - Logatec

Time includes all breaks

Event: OO.cup/09