Saturday Apr 12 |
 | Running ABC's/Stretching warm up/down 12:00 [2] 1 km (12:00 / km) +30m 10:26 / km | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator 2008 |
| Warm up before the start. I was a bit in a hurry. There was a problem with my travel to the competition and in such cases concentration is never good. |
| Orienteering race 58:48 [4] *** 5.15 km (11:25 / km) +200m 9:34 / km | |
| spiked:16/16c shoes: VJ Integrator 2008 |
| Middle distance (WRE) of the 1st day of Ackov Cup. I started great, continued well on the long leg to the 2nd and then did one of the stupidest mistakes ever on the 3rd. The leg was 500m: over the hill and down to the valley and then up to the control. Simple. With courage from 2nd control I got down the wrong valley on the wrong side of the slope (90 degrees mistake - I wasnt really following the compass, since everything seemed clear). In the bottom of the valley I have been asking myself who the f* made this funny map and have been later searching 11:30 minutes for the control on the wrong hill - parallel to the right one. Disaster. I made a few small mistakes, many times I have been just too careful with map reading. However to the 5th I lost 2:30 again when looking too high. 14:10 of mistakes on the middle course is quite disastrous. With time around 45 I wouldn't have been much better in places, but - it would feel like a decent race. I guess no points for WRE this time for me. Salopek ran around 34', Kaniski 35', Virgis 62'.
The race was held on last year's World Military O-Championships on Kljucic brdo near Zagreb. The northern part of the map is quite tricky and nice and very similar to the terrain I expect next weekend for Slovenian League. |
| Trail-O race 1:30:00 [1] *** 1.6 km (56:15 / km) +30m 51:26 / km | |
| spiked:17/17c shoes: New Balance 1023 |
| Foot-O race was continued by Trail-O race. I didn't have much patience with the controls, made a few stupid mistakes (once I also had luck) and ended in the 2nd place, which might mean, I am 2nd best Trail-O guy in the world, since only World Championa managed to beat me. ;) 3 Slovenes in front of the Croatian team. Quite the opposite than in Foot-O. ;) |
Thursday Apr 10 |
| Running ABC's/Stretching warm up/down 10:00 [1] | |
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| Swimming 1:25:00 [3] 2 km (42:30 / km) | |
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| The usual ... |
Tuesday Apr 8 |
| Running ABC's/Stretching warm up/down 5:00 [1] | |
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| Swimming 1:30:00 [3] 2.65 km (33:58 / km) | |
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| In the pool. I have been resting in between, since the pool was full, but I felt great and swam quite a long distance. |