Saturday Apr 22 |
 | Cycling 25:00 [3]8 km (3:08 / km) | |
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| Cycling to the meeting point for the bus to SOL3... And then in the evening cycling back home ... |
 | Orienteering race 2:00:40 [3]**** 11.58 km (10:25 / km) +435m 8:46 / km | |
| ahr:175 max:192 slept:1.5 (injured) |
| It was my first elite long race ... It was the kind of terrain I am missing. Continental, fairly fast ... The only thing I didn't like was the altitude, since I had still heavy legs for up-hill from the thursday's training.
The map was 1 to 10:000, though it was simple enough to be in the 1:15 000. I prefer 1:10 000 anyway. It's much easier to read during the race.
I started OK - climbed up the hill and almost directly nailed CP1. Then I misread the map to CP2 - came to high ... A bit of mistake. To the 3rd control it was notnihg special, but first long uphill ... It killed me and I did a bit of mistake to the control. I was beaten by Jaka here already ... I had no chance of following him uphill. I was slow but accurate to CP4 and 5. To CP6 I had some 90 deg. rotation problem, but I solved it OK. To CP7 I lost contact with the map for a while - just preserving the direction. Lost a few minutes finding out, where I was, but then it was smooth. To CP14 I've swollen my ankle. It slowed me down for a while. Crossing the swamp got me distracted again ... Read the map carefully and found myself in a few moments. Map to CP15 was no good at all, but profile was obvious. CP16 might be set a bit too much to the north, but ... I am not sure ... I found it with almost no loss of time. I spend too much time on the long leg to CP19, running across the slope, loosing my sense of where I was, but I guess I didn't do tooo much mistake here.
To the finish line I could hardly run ... My legs started to hurt quite a bit ...
I haven't seen the final results, but I think I was the last ... Around 30 minutes behind Jaka - the best slovenian ... But only 14 minutes behind Ivan ... I am quite satisfied with that. |
Friday Apr 21 |
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| (rest day) |
| Yesterday was a hard training day ... However, I feel allright today. But I get tired instantly when going up (the stairs) ... I hope I will recover well untill tomorrow ... My firste M21E classics. Getting nearer 14km and something in the WUOC. :) Starting with 11.5 tomorrow. |
Thursday Apr 20 |
 | Cycling 1:15:00 [3]* 25 km (3:00 / km) +105m 2:56 / km | |
| ahr:153 max:181 |
| Cycled to Komenda, to Andreja. To get the map for Foot-O training. Used a bit of MTB-O technique. :) |
 | Orienteering 1:38:10 [3]**** 7.1 km (13:50 / km) +355m 11:04 / km | |
| ahr:176 max:195 spiked:29/29c |
| Ran the training in Komenda ... I did around 10 minutes of mistakes ... The cause was in training markers not being present or in tiing up my shoelaces ... Still ... Not very good time. I wonder, what went wrong. I ran practically with no mistakes. Anyway - I am going to do some leg analysis ...
In the second part I felt tired, couldn't run any uphills. But still ... I guess Sandi had time of around 80, which makes my time quite lousy. |
 | Cycling 1:15:00 [4]25 km (3:00 / km) +50m 2:58 / km | |
| ahr:146 max:170 |
| I was already quite tired after the whole day ... And I hade quite some road ahead of me ... It was a struggle ...
Left knee hurt quite a lot during cycling ... |
Tuesday Apr 18 |
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| (rest day) |
| Oh ... well ... No training again ... I spent the afternoon (4.5 hours) and part of the evening in Slovenian Orienteering Federation Executeve Comittee's meeting ... What a bullshit. It was even worse than Scout Association of Slovenia's Executive Committee's meetings. I never thought it could be possible.
Anyway ... It started allright ... Andreja showed us the new suit's design, some training suits and other equippement for Slovenian national team ... Andraz agreed the suit was allright and this will probably be used for WUOC team members too ... So, one problem less. :)
Oh yes ... And I am going to a nice training on Thursday. To Komenda. 7km's. :) Nice. |
 | Cycling 20:00 [2]5 km (4:00 / km) | |
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| Acctually, I did take a bike to the meeting and back. :) This might count as training. I was pushing hard. |
Monday Apr 17 |
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| (rest day) |
| I wanted to do 30 km of cycling and fair o-training ... But, the weather turned against me. So, I finished my day by helping my friend renewing his appartment. Is that strength training? :D
By the way - I am all about MTB-O these days. I am looking for those 1500 EUR+ bikes, making contact with local MTB clubs, where there is some possibility that they would join some competitions, etc. :-)
Well, it will pass. :)
And results from MTB-O event from Slovenj Gradec have been published today. Eneja finished 3rd in the long distance too ... Only a minute or something behind Hana and a bit more than 10 minutes behind Michaela ... Nice. I am a bit dissapointed, not to stay in SG and take another race, but ... It's good to be left with a good feeling about the sport. :) |
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| By the way ... SG competition counted for Slovenian/Croatian MTB-O league. Finally some Slovenian revenge here ... CRO competitors always beat our elite in Foot-O ... big time ... Here ... 7 of us got ahead of the best Croatian biker. :-) |