Bohu & Robert & kids…

Abychom mezi vsim tim sportovanim trochu pozvedli ducha, tak jsme se jeli podivat na novy architektonicky skvost Turku – Pyhän Henrikin ekumeeninen taidekappeli (v prekladu neco jako ekumenicka umelecka kaple sv. Henrika). Sv. Henrik je patron Finska, prestoze je anglican Byl biskupem v Uppsale ve Svedsku a nekdy r. 1155 se vydal sirit krestanstvi do jizniho Finska. Je nekolik legend o tom proc a jak byl asi po roce zavrazden (vpodstate kvuli penezum) a jak to bylo dal (ruzny prokleti, zazraky a tak). Kaple byla postavena r. 2005, pred tim vyhrala nekolik architektonickych soutezi a vazne stoji za to.

Some pictures of Pyhän Henrikin ekumeeninen taidekappeli (St. Henrik Ecumenic Art Chapel) in Hirvensalo. Definitelly worth to see.

Par fotek tady

-B-

Again, but luckily not for me, only for tough Finnish guys! Sprint yesterday and middle today in Pargas, and probably classic tomorrow in Ingå/Inkoo.

It was sooo much better sprint yesterday in comparison to that, which I ran last week in CZE. I like those city-sprints much more than the forest ones. My ankle is almost healed so I gave it a shoot. I made some small mistakes, but feeling after I finished was 100% better than in last couple of days.
One minor comment: the 3rd control! I’ve run as planned, but before the last passage I was stopped by the organizer and guided around the building. Someone had come to that place, after 9 guys had run through, closed the gate and drove home!
Overall 20th place +0.56 behind Tero Föhr, OK!

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Today, that was a forest! I thought that this kind of sh… is only in Tampere area , but not really. I’m so glad that it wasn’t my test race! I have kind of given up after the 2nd control already, where I missed a lot and had to fight much with all the green stuff from the ground up to my neck, which continued all the way towards the finish-line. I jogged through the rest of the course, with a very low mental and physical effort. If this would have been training I would have quit after 5 min.
Overall 56th place +15.53 behind Jarkko Huovila, YES!

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BTW: while waiting yesterday in school at the pre-start, if felt really odd to be there among those Finnish guys. For me it just a next race, for them it was really IT. They have train for these races a whole winter so no wonder that they tried to concentrate and prepare for the race in a best way. On the contrary, I was just sitting there (almost bored) and only waiting for my turn. As I saw on Suunnistus.net, there is a discussion going on about us foreigners running Finnish test races. I totally understand that we (foreigners) are taking places from Finnish guys who could possibly qualify. But for my defense: Test races are the ranking-ones and of course the best opportunity to get good points!

Classic tomorrow?

Bohdana starts to walk a bit on her injured leg, but maybe she would need to go to doctor anyway and she would like to do orienteering so much this year…

…almost every day

I’m back in Finland from the selection races to EOC with very, very mixed thoughts.
Well, it didn’t go as planned… in fact it went really BAD!
Sprint distance would have been a perfect race only if there wouldn’t be two extra controls on the open field. These extra controls were there only to trick us. Of course I got caught (as many others), made a fool of myself and did about 25 s. mistake Overall 6th place 1.17 behind unbelievable Michal Smola.
Middle distance was quite a challenging course. It was definitely nothing to compare to what I get to run here in Finland. I mean: lots of controls (30), direction and speed changes. When I finished I was quite satisfied (‘only’ about 1.30 mistakes), so I got a bit surprised when realized that I was already 2’ behind and the best were still in the forest. Eventually with a really confused feeling I got the 9th place +3.50 behind again amazing Bingo Smola.
The last race, the Classic distance, was actually over for me already on the way to the first control. My right ankle called up for its attention again. Very well known pain and the very same race procedure: wherever I step with my right leg I have to know to what I put my foot on. I kept on pushing anyway, did quite well until the very end of the course where I all blew it! I stared to feel tired, upset, and much more… so I missed more than 5 min on 2 controls 14th place +9.09 behind Petr Losman.

All in all: next time (if there’s ever going to be one) while running in continental terrain I have to push more and read the map less (simplify as much as possible).
Season has just started and I’m already so fucked up with O, ankle problems again! Should I better quit and do something reasonable…?

results: sprint  middle  classic
splits: sprint  middle  classic
maps: sprint  middle_1  middle_2  classic_1  classic_2

-R-

Pro vsechny, kteri (ktere) se uz tresou nedockavosti, ze se na Tiomile jako kazdy rok uvidime, mam spatnou zpravu. V nedeli pri zavode jsem si tak vyhodila kotnik, ze mi to vyneslo berle, tydenni neschopenku a min. 3 tydny bez behani. Nastesti pro me se to stalo asi 500m od cile, takze jsem se jako jeden z tankistu doplazila na cestu a pak uz me nesli na nositkach. No proste hrdina…Skoda jenom, ze me v tom soku nenapadlo z nositek orazit sberku a cil, ani bych nebyla posledni No kazdopadne pro vas o duvod vic prijet na Jukolu (ktera je mimochodem stejne lepsi a dulezitejsi nez Tiomila
-B-

Tak konecne jsme se dockali prvnich zavodu ve Finsku. V patek sprint v Helsinkach a vcera stafety za humny v Sauvu. Bohuzel snih jeste neroztal, takze misty to bylo zase jenom o tech ‘dalnicich’. Nastesti to nebylo takove psycho jako pred dvema tydny na Spring Cupu. Patecni sprint ve vojenskem prostoru na ostrove Santahamina se bezel dokonce i o penize, bohuzel Robert zase ‘zabodoval’, na cca 400 m trati vypnul mozek, takze se zadne penize domu nevezly. Ale bezelo se mi moc prima

Vcera jsme zase vymrzli… Bohda bezela svuj prvni zavod (2. usek) a podle toho jak mi vysvetlovala jakou chybu se ji podarilo udelat jsem si myslel, ze tam nechala min. 10 min. No nakonec se ukazalo, ze to sice chyba byla, nicmene jeden z nej casu na useku… Spolu se Sallou a Vroni nakonec vyhraly, takze mame doma ‘krasnou’ novou keramiku nebo co to vlastne je??? Ja jsem bezel taky druhy usek a az na jednu chybu bylo vse OK.

Zitra smer CR. Podivat se za rodinou, probehnout se v lese bez snehu, ale hlavne bezet nominacky na ME. Po dlouhych ctyrech letech jsem se zase nechal nalakat touhou uspechu a slavy… No nic vzhledem k tomu, ze letos je to asi moje posledni sance se nekam dostat a ze si myslim ze ‘to’ tam je, tak bych byl asi hloupy, kdybych to nezkusil. A hlavne mam abs. podporu me skvele Bohunky! Takze mapa Vidnavy se tedka u nas v byte vali skoro vsude.

PS: venku zase snezi a poradne!!!

mapy: sprint  stafety ro  stafety bo
vysledky: patek a mezicasy + sobota