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Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2009
Samstag, 25. Juli 2009
ORINGEN 09
Oringen started for Warti and me with the mass start.
The task was to do three loops, each about 2,8-3 kms and then a final course of 9,5km. There were 6 combinations of the loops. Forking was done by combining two halfs (A to C) inside each loop with a common control in the middle.
The race started very well for me and I was always in sight of the leading pack when passing the first map exchange. Warti had some problems on his loop and fell behind some minutes.
But the troubles started on the second loop also for me. I did a bad route choice to the second control and also lost contact to the other guys. Then I was not even able to attack the control properly and lost some time there.
After this I tried to push harder to close the gap to a pack in front of me. Right after some minutes a bad feeling in my stomach made me stop. Finally even the last guy was gone. So I decided to change my plan and try to complete the race as a normal fast training.
Not even that was possible when I fought another 45 minutes and I gave up the race at the 3rd control of the last course.
Warti had a good race after his troubles in the beginning but skipped one control near the end and got disqualified.
Results 1st stage
So that was a very bad start to 5 days of Oringen for both of us.
Next day was the WRE event. My plan was to forget to do a normal race without any special plans. The preparation was really bad by eating just some toasts and a little bit of pizza after the massstart. Right from the beginning I felt really awful physically and had to push hard to keep a proper speed. To the third control I had my first mistake and a lot of little mistakes were following. I became 63rd and Warti was the best Austrian as 52nd.
Results 2nd stage
But the highlight of the day was Markus Lang who won the Hill prize.
The third day for the Elitserien runners held a Sprint in the city center of Eksjö.
I had a good race and just some seconds mistakes but the speed was horribly slow.
Warti was some seconds slower than me and became 57th and I was placed on 52nd position.
Results 3rd stage
After the rest day the middle distance was held. It became a fine race technically and I just lost alltogether about 1,5 minutes.
Warti took it not with full speed and became 69th whilst I became 53rd.
Results 4th stage
So due to our bad result at the first stage Warti and me were outside the chasingstart on the last stage. He started 15 seconds in front of me about 32 minutes after the last chasingstart runner.
We had a nice race together and I led most of the time. To the 10th and 11th control we did stupid route choices and lost some time. So we were caught by Daniel Wernersson and Jan Troeng at the 13th control. We lost contact to them to the 15th and then we fought against our tiredness till the end. Especially the last loop after the spectators section troubled us a lot and we lost some time here and there.
Finally we completed the race as 56th and 57th.
Final results
That concluded our Oringen trip and we went back home today. It was a nice experience as every Oringen and showed a lot of things to work on. But now the focus lies on WOC starting in 3 weeks.
From Wednesday to Saturday we will go on a training camp to Hungary for the last WOC preparations
The task was to do three loops, each about 2,8-3 kms and then a final course of 9,5km. There were 6 combinations of the loops. Forking was done by combining two halfs (A to C) inside each loop with a common control in the middle.
The race started very well for me and I was always in sight of the leading pack when passing the first map exchange. Warti had some problems on his loop and fell behind some minutes.
But the troubles started on the second loop also for me. I did a bad route choice to the second control and also lost contact to the other guys. Then I was not even able to attack the control properly and lost some time there.
After this I tried to push harder to close the gap to a pack in front of me. Right after some minutes a bad feeling in my stomach made me stop. Finally even the last guy was gone. So I decided to change my plan and try to complete the race as a normal fast training.
Not even that was possible when I fought another 45 minutes and I gave up the race at the 3rd control of the last course.
Warti had a good race after his troubles in the beginning but skipped one control near the end and got disqualified.
Results 1st stage
So that was a very bad start to 5 days of Oringen for both of us.
Next day was the WRE event. My plan was to forget to do a normal race without any special plans. The preparation was really bad by eating just some toasts and a little bit of pizza after the massstart. Right from the beginning I felt really awful physically and had to push hard to keep a proper speed. To the third control I had my first mistake and a lot of little mistakes were following. I became 63rd and Warti was the best Austrian as 52nd.
Results 2nd stage
But the highlight of the day was Markus Lang who won the Hill prize.
The third day for the Elitserien runners held a Sprint in the city center of Eksjö.
I had a good race and just some seconds mistakes but the speed was horribly slow.
Warti was some seconds slower than me and became 57th and I was placed on 52nd position.
Results 3rd stage
After the rest day the middle distance was held. It became a fine race technically and I just lost alltogether about 1,5 minutes.
Warti took it not with full speed and became 69th whilst I became 53rd.
Results 4th stage
So due to our bad result at the first stage Warti and me were outside the chasingstart on the last stage. He started 15 seconds in front of me about 32 minutes after the last chasingstart runner.
We had a nice race together and I led most of the time. To the 10th and 11th control we did stupid route choices and lost some time. So we were caught by Daniel Wernersson and Jan Troeng at the 13th control. We lost contact to them to the 15th and then we fought against our tiredness till the end. Especially the last loop after the spectators section troubled us a lot and we lost some time here and there.
Finally we completed the race as 56th and 57th.
Final results
That concluded our Oringen trip and we went back home today. It was a nice experience as every Oringen and showed a lot of things to work on. But now the focus lies on WOC starting in 3 weeks.
From Wednesday to Saturday we will go on a training camp to Hungary for the last WOC preparations
Freitag, 17. Juli 2009
O-Ringen TC has started
Yesterday late evening we finally arrived in Eksjö after pickung up Patrizia, Kerschi and Helmut from Skavsta airport. We are staying in an awesome (really big!) house near a beautiful lake, just some minutes away from O-Ringen torget and the city center. Fantastic! It couldn't be better :)At midnight I did a short jog with the city map and today we started our a.m.-training at 12:30 :P Second session launched at 18:00 ó clock and was a fast 2,7 km one with 30 sec. chasing start.
Friday a.m. (south part) and p.m. (northern part)
Friday a.m. (south part) and p.m. (northern part)
Like in Italy this will be another endurance-preparation-training-period for WOC. Our competitions (Men Elitserien) will start on Sunday late afternoon with an Ultralong distance (~ 17km), followed by a long distance on Monday (~ 13km), a Sprint on Tuesday and a middle distance on Thursday (~6,5 km). Fifth stage on Friday is a long distance with chasing start. I intend to run 1st, 2nd and 5th stage full speed, maybe also sprint, we will see. Next days will be loaded with orienteering trainings, morning jogs and strength sessions.
Catch you later and have fun in the meantime :)
Dienstag, 14. Juli 2009
Finished a hard training week + interesting maps!
On Sunday I finished a hard training week including a lot of orienteering, some running, strength and a mountain trip. Overall I trained 18h, 13,5 h without hiking. For me - especially in summer - this was pretty much. I really enjoyed orienteering in the steep slopes with loads of stones and rockfaces in Italy. 2nd stage of Dolomiti 5-days was held on Passo Rolle in half open and half forested terrain. 3rd and 4th race were middle-distances in San Martino di Castrozza, right beneath Passo Rolle. Last stage was in Val Canali with an interesting beginning, an easier middle-part, very tricky controls near the end and just running the last km. On that day I achieved my best result with 12th best time of the day. Finally, I finished on 23rd place overall in M21Elite. The french top runner Francois Gonon won the 5-days of Dolomites 2009, with Mattias Millinger in 2nd and Rasmus SØes in 3rd position.
Now, three relaxing days before I will start my next hard training block, lasting 10 days starting on Thursday and including the O-Ringen competitions in M 21 Elitserien.
Here are my maps from stage 2 - 5 with some short comments under every picture:
Day 2, map Passo Rolle, shortened long distance
Again I started with an awful routechoice to the first control. A very small mistake at 2nd control and some needless highmeters on the way to control 8.
Day 4, map San Martino - Centro, Middle-distance
Wuhu, no mistake to the 1st control! ;) As I mentioned before, the last stage was my best one. Although being tired, I was able to push the whole course with hardly any mistake. Small mistakes at controls 4, 8, 20 and 27. A bigger one at 18th control. Bad routechoice to 22nd, where I didn't see the small path leading to the control.
Now, three relaxing days before I will start my next hard training block, lasting 10 days starting on Thursday and including the O-Ringen competitions in M 21 Elitserien.
Here are my maps from stage 2 - 5 with some short comments under every picture:
Day 2, map Passo Rolle, shortened long distance
I even started with a bad route choice to control 1: drifting too much to the right when crossing the flat depression right after the start. Then two mistakes in the control area at 5 and 6. Then the biggest mistake to 12th control: I lost height and came down to the small marsh. Nearly the same mistake to control 14: But here I climbed a little too much. Maybe a bad route choice to control 10 and a worse one to 15?
Day 3, map San Martino Sud, Middle-distance
Again I started with an awful routechoice to the first control. A very small mistake at 2nd control and some needless highmeters on the way to control 8.
Day 4, map San Martino - Centro, Middle-distance
Guess what? YES! I made a mistake to the first control. Oh, you are familiar to that. Me too :S Running on the yellow area next to the control I thought I'm passing the semi-open area more behing. I don't know why I had such fool mind. But the unbeatable highlight in this run was control 7: first I left 6th control in wrong direction and then I searched the flag for around 3,5 min. because control description said "dry ditch, north-east end", but it was situated on south-west end. Additionally, the control was too high, because making some steps I already reached the yellow area above the control point. It was more than weird there and I was really angry. I managed the tricky part in the end nearly perfectly without big time loss.
Day 5, map Val Canali - Piazmador, shortened long distance
Wuhu, no mistake to the 1st control! ;) As I mentioned before, the last stage was my best one. Although being tired, I was able to push the whole course with hardly any mistake. Small mistakes at controls 4, 8, 20 and 27. A bigger one at 18th control. Bad routechoice to 22nd, where I didn't see the small path leading to the control.
I gained a lot of experience in this week and I'm looking forward to O-Ringen! :)
Results, photos, JWOC, ...
Mittwoch, 8. Juli 2009
Ciao bella Italia
After a thrilling Follow-Eyoc-2009-in-Serbia-online-weekend we left sunday early morning for our military training camp in Italy. Because nobody of us is running JWOC, we are all participating in the 5 days of Dolomites 2009 in San Primiero/Trento. Except Monday (we had the same event center, but the JWOC Sprint was in Imer-Mezzano and stage 1 of the 5-days was on a map at higher altitude) the finish area was respectively will be the same: Yesterday Passo Rolle - JWOC Long, 2nd stage, Thursday and Friday San Martino di Castrozza - Middle Qualification and Final, stage 3 and 4, Saturday Val Canali - Relay and last stage of 5-days.
We are living in a small but nice appartment in Imer and thus most of us will take part in WOC we are taking the 5-days as a good preparation to try and improve different things e.g. use a power-gel, do a morning jog, warmup-routine, ... Accordingly, no one will push hard through all of the stages. Today we went hiking on a beautiful mountain where we enjoyed an amazing view :)
As scheduled two middle distances follow tomorrow and on Friday and another shortened long on Saturday.
Stage 1 - San Giovanni-Caltena
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