Maria Sá

Praia de Mira, Praia da Vieira, Pedreanes e Praia da Tocha are perfect places for orienteering trainning and to complete my preparation for woc, the real goal of this season. Me and more 7 runners (ionut zinca, isabel sá, mario baptista, cláudia delgado,manuel delgado and antonio marcolino e josé mário baptista) from 4caminhos (my orienteering club) travalled from north to south of portugal visiting some maps similar to the terrain that we'll find in ukraine. Thanks for the clubs that gave us some maps for trainning and specially to gd4caminhos for all the support.



We started trainning in mira and then travelled a bit more to the south and did the last trainning again in mira, but on a different map.
The first trainning was held on a bit «green map» but very nice for me. I did it quite well and ejoyed very much running in so much green terrain but white map



Second day we did two nice trainnings: in the morning we did two middle distance trainnings and in the evening four sprint courses in detailed forest
Third day and we finally reach Praia da Vieira. In the morning we ran a «race-like» course with a start list. I started very bad making an huge mistake at second control but , fortunatly, did better in the end of the race and recovered some minutes. For me it was not very good trainning because I did several mistakes and was not very focused. In the evening we did a great trainning that I enjoyed very much. It was like a competition between two runners that ran small different courses( 3-4 controls)but had some controls that were exactly the same, so we had to ran very fast to reach the common controls first! I ran with ionut zinca and my sister (isabel) with mario baptista. It was very funny because I won ionut and because my sister and mario had a wrong designed maps so they were waitting each other on different places:D what a mistake!





Fourth day we went to marinha grande. Really nice map and really nice trainning too. We did little sprint courses starting just with 1 minute difference between.so great! in the evening we enjoyed the sun and rested a little. Fifth day we run a long legs course at marinha grande in the morning and in the evening we did like the tirth day evening trainning. Last day we ran in Palheirão - Praia da Tocha,doing a «follow me» trainning:) it was nice to test different route choices and test what we improved in all of this trainnings.