Saturday Jun 30 |
 | Running ABC's/Stretching 10:00 [1] | |
| shoes: New Balance 765 |
| Warm up before the race. Mostly just stretching. Why warm up for 17.5km?! ;) I can not manage the race in the full speed. |
| Orienteering race 2:35:00 [4] *** 17.5 km (8:51 / km) +180m 8:25 / km | |
| spiked:35/35c shoes: New Balance 765 |
| Thermenland Open, 2nd day. Longest distance I've ever done. My longest so far was 14.1km at World University Orienteering Championships in Ko?ice last year. I did some other long races, but never 17.5km, which is quite extreme. Started fairly fast, having some problems finding the hidden controls (most controls have been hidden and flags dopped! Why a fancy event if basic things don't work?). Looking a few controls in the forrest after I got my feeling back. I did a fair race - never accelerated too much (except a few rare times), keeping the energy for later. After half of the course I used energy gel, which really did help. Because of my sweat my map dropped apart. I had to stop completely from 14th to 16th control, memorize the map and then run.
Second lap I started even slower. Having some problems finding controls in the dark forrest (I was running most of the second lap in heavy rain). Quite a few times it happened to me on the indistinct slope that I missed controls for a few meters and then over ran it.
The result is exactly what I expected although I thought I could be a little bit faster. If I didn't make mistakes, I would have been. Anyway - I was the last among the Slovenian team today - 10' behind Samo, 16' behind Iztok and more than 30' behind David, who did a solid race, apparently.
15'50" of mistakes. |
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| C • Splitsi 2 |
Friday Jun 29 |
| Running ABC's/Stretching 20:00 [1] 2 km (10:00 / km) +50m 8:53 / km | |
| shoes: New Balance 765 |
| Warm up/stretching before the race. |
| Orienteering 10:00 [3] *** 1 km (10:00 / km) +20m 9:05 / km | |
| spiked:3/3c shoes: New Balance 765 |
| Warm up/model before the race. Kept quite a decent pace. Looking at features, "green" definitions and trying my direction keeping performance. |
| Orienteering race 59:38 [5] *** 7.5 km (7:57 / km) +125m 7:20 / km | |
| spiked:18/18c shoes: New Balance 765 |
| 7.5km for middle seemed a bit too much for me. In the end it was OK. I did a solid job - had some difficulties orientering but I didn't make too many mistakes. Also my running was good, I was able to accelerate some interval and run as fast as I am able in the forrest. When comming out of the forrest (after nearly 7 km's) I lost my strength. I was pleased in the finish. After mistakes of other Slovenian runners I have finished the first among the last. ;)
Terrain was similar than Slovenian League Nr. 2 terrain, but course setting was phenomenal. Great race.
3'50" of mistakes. |
Monday Jun 25 |
| Basketball 1:00:00 [4] | |
| shoes: New Balance 1022 |
| Playing basketball - 1 on 1 with Nace. Hard. Winning. ;) |
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| C • ;P 3 |