Bohu & Robert & kids…

Back in Finland from ’ski-O’ in Denmark. Yep, there was not so much normal orienteering. Quite much snow in the forest, not so challenging courses and as Bohdana (being in FIN) has said even the online service wasn’t on top.
Driving through the SWE on Fri, two races during the weekend and again driving back to FIN, twelve hours behind the wheel for two hours of running. Luckily the results were good so it was not such a big waste of time although it feels like.
The Classic distance was an easy course and since I was starting in the middle of the field the orienteering part basically got down into the choosing correct path made by previous poor guys.
Relay, yes that was something! An opening leg for me, I was basically just following the leading guys all the way and trying to run as much as possible on the tracks. It was really boring!
I guess that was it for me! I know that I’ve been saying that already few times, but this year it was my LAST Spring Cup!

Results: classic , relay
Maps: classic, relay

Tak prvni zavody za nama. Celkem dobry! Holt nebylo to nic extra, les bez snehu se nekonal, takze poslednich x mesicu treninku v tech bilych… nebylo k zahozeni.

Svetova elita se sice sjela, ale zas tak velike zavody to nebyly. Poradatele byli ‘lini’ a neodklidili veskery snih z lesa a ani to pocasi moc nezajistili… Pocasi bylo fakt na pytel! Nastesti jsem odjel po 2. useku stafet, takze me ta chumelenice zastihla az za volantem v rovinatem Skåne. Jinak skoro azuro, teplota nad NULOU, takze dalo by se rict POHODA!

V sobotu na klasice to chtelo prat o 106 a nejak to ukocirovat s tou mapou. Vse se podarilo, takze jsem mohl rozsirit svou sbirku SC mikin. Snehu bylo dostatek, a vyslapanych dalnic habakuk.
Nedelni stafety byl klasicky psycho-thriller. Hromadne jsme se vyritili vstric souvisle vrstve (cca 20 cm) bileho hnusu. Nemelo cenu vymyslet nejake vlasnti figle, chtelo to ‘jen’ valit v hadu, obcas cist mapu a KONTROLOVAT kody. Predbihat moc neslo, bo kdo by chtel bezet v hlubocaku misto v krasne vybehane pesine. Takze tolik. Pristi rok ma byt SC v okoli Roskilde (EOC 2004), ale fakt nevim…

PS: Mozna v pristich letech nebudou poradatele propagovat teren, mapu, sprchy nebo kdovi co jeste, ale pouze les bez snehu.

vysledky klasika
vysledky stafety

Yes, ‘no pain no gain’ that is the motto of this week! On Tue this week we’ve had a 5000 m test in track-and-field Kupittaa indoor hall. I was barely walking afterwards, but the time in my pocket made me really satisfied. Together with Sami Hämälistö we’ve pushed ourselves throughout 29 loops and clocked at 15,23 and 15,28.
Today, our home-training-camp starts with a night-O, tomorrow another test-run ahead (14,4 km) plus some ball-games and the camp finishes with a long-slow-training with a map. Yes, orienteering! Next week on Tue it will be the last test for me in upcoming weeks. I’ll run so called Tasotesti (x times 1 km with an increasing pace), in order to know in what physical shape I am at the moment. Next week also starts Långa Natten Challenge here in Turku, no matter if snow is still in the forest, it’s really time to start practicing night-O. 10-Mila is quite soon. And lastly, on Thursday next week we are heading towards Denmark for my sixth Spring Cup, hopefully this time also foot-O. That’s about it from my side.

Bohdana has finally recovered from the skiing-injury. Her back seems to be OK, so she will start some ‘real’ training again. Although, her main focus at the moment is on classic xc-skiing, wonder why! After being only skater, she at last found out that the real joy is a Classic style not Skate one. So we had to buy a new set of classic skies for her (luckily sport-shops are keen on discounts now) and she goes skiing on a frozen see everyday. How she does check here
-R-