Sunday May 18 |
 | Running warm up/down 20:00 [2] 1 km (20:00 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator 2008 |
| Longer warm up, while waiting for my leg. |
| Orienteering race 1:13:18 [4] **** 5.1 km (14:22 / km) +180m 12:13 / km | |
| spiked:16/16c shoes: VJ Integrator 2008 |
| Our relay started a bit bad today. Jozko seemed to have made a few mistakes in the course and he came out with a 20 minute delay. Fortunately for us, one team (Polaris) mispunched in the first leg, so by the time Ales came out of the forrest we have been clearly second. It was up to me to maintain the position. I felt motivated, with a bit of adrenaline in my blood!
I started careful, but accurate. Did a small mistake to 2nd (30'), then went clear to 3rd and picked an OK routechoice (on the road) to 4th. Before the 4th I saw Miro (the mispunched team in front of us) heading up the road, thought, this was not my road, rechecked the map and found, it was my road. So, I followed ... However - It wasn't really my road, which I realized after 100m and then wanted to cross to the parallel one, which was mine. I came too high and then missed the junction and went to the next hill - with a vast depression in between. After that I crossed the deep depression and found my point. 7 minutes gone, I suppose. I ran clear to 5th and 6th, but I was much more careful (and slow now). Leaving the 4th CP I felt my back ... Damn ... It was cold and raining. I felt it was really bad, but I tried to run. 7th was OK and while going to the 8th I ran out of my energy supplies. My mind went completely blank near the CP. I had to stop, breathe and think really slowly, where my 50m distant CP is. I forgot to eat my energy bars before running. And CP9 was the toughest one, we had. Therefore I picked a trail, that went all around, but was the simplest way to find the CP. I regained some of my powers by the end I reached the CP and went OK until the spectator control. To the last loop I hardly relocated myself, but I again continued slowly and carefully on the very difficult terrain. At my last CP I also helped a lost girl and then ran smoothly to the finished.
After thorough analysis I concluded, that I made for 17' of mistakes. This means, I could run near to the tempo I had on long distance.
The crowd cheered a lot, and it was really very nice to finish. 3rd place for our team, but far far behind OK Brezice, who won and 10 minutes behind OK Komenda. Jure Zmrzlikar overtook me by 20 minutes or more on the course. Andra? ran 46'.
OK Polaris is ... sometimes very clumsy. I don't understand how can one digitally print the courses wrong on the map!? I think a few more words will be said about the maps, CP positioning, federation officials ... |
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| Back is killing me today. I don't remember ever being in such pain!!! I need 3 minutes to stand up from a chair! |
Saturday May 17 |
| Running 5:00 [1] 0.6 km (8:20 / km) | |
| shoes: VJ Integrator 2008 |
| I was a bit skeptical about my racing today. I could hardly stand up and then I could orienteer? But ... In the forest after a few CP's seemed really great ... I have been mostly walking before the start, which helps me with loosening my back pain ... |
| Orienteering race (long) 1:08:21 [5] *** 6 km (11:24 / km) +230m 9:34 / km | |
| spiked:14/14c shoes: VJ Integrator 2008 |
| National championships in long distance in Postojna. My goal was to be near the 1st place today ... And more - to try to run around 10-11min/km. On the 2nd CP I have been caught by Eneja, who ran the same course in women elite. We ran practically the whole course together, but ... funny, taking - where possible - different route choices. She has been helped by me a few times, and she helped me sometimes. Although we have been trying we could not loose one another. It helped my motivation and I have been faster therefore.
I made around 4:40 of mistakes. Sometimes bad route choice, sometimes mistake on the map (which has been a sort of disaster today - probably M21E will be annulled and also plenty of other people have not been satisfied with the map). For me it worked just great.
In the end 2 minutes behind Eneja, 1 minute in front of Jazbar and Jev?evar, 10 minutes in front of next member of M21A. Another glorious victory (except that Sandi deliberately made my time 10 minutes longer and I was anounced as 2nd). :) One of the best races this year. |
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| C • Razglasitev? 3 |
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| Plenty of the people have been dissapointed today and if tomorrow mistakes follow we might loose a few very keen members ... We should not play with "bad maps" so much as we do this year! |
Friday May 16 |
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| Dancing again ... 3 hours. I wonder, how orienteering will go tomorrow. My back is not at good at all ... |
Thursday May 15 |
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| (injured) |
| Back really hurts today - I can barely stand up from a chair. I am thinking about skipping the training. |
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| C • haha nono, drugač men ... 2 |
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| Rested the whole day. Back is a little bit better, but still far from good. |
Wednesday May 14 |
| Running 40:00 [3] 7 km (5:43 / km) +20m 5:38 / km | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Skylon |
| A bit longer lap on PST with Aljo?a. My back hurts like hell ... Besides, I feel tired again. Heavy legs ... Otherwise it was tolerable. ;) I stick to my normal routine. 1 km of easy running/w-up, moderate stretching and then continuing ... |
Tuesday May 13 |
| Running 54:00 [3] 9.7 km (5:34 / km) +20m 5:31 / km | |
| shoes: Nike Air Zoom Skylon |
| Modifed lap on PST. Slowly - a bit accelerated towards the end. Legs felt heavy for the first 5km, then OK. |
Monday May 12 |
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| (rest day) |
| Rest day today. Really feels like one and it made me good. I needed some rest. |