Maria Sá

What a feeling!
That was one of the best moments last months on my orienteering races!
Running on such a big relay as 10mila for the first time was incredible...last long leg, fighting hard for better and better place, catching 10 teams and going into the finish line with Klemmingen great support was the best!
Thanks girls! Thanks Klemmingen

(sooner i'll update last months of trainnings and competitions...I've been having lack of time to post here but sincerely it was impossible for me to do not post anything after such a great weekend!!)

After 20days for Christmas holidays in Portugal, I came back to my second home, Wroclaw well, in fact I came back to a freezer!
When I was landing in Wroclaw I heard something like -21ºc. Well, maybe I heard it wrong - that's what I thought! But no..outside the airplane it was really really cold! I forgot the idea of waiting for the bus to go home and immediately took a taxi. I ran to the entrance of my dormitory and.. uf!finally a warm place. Uau..I realize that I was on a Christmas postcard! Everything around was white, plenty of snow, the Odra was frozen and such a nice view!
Making snow ball fights become normal and also to see people ice-skating on the river!Now it's a bit warmer and I'm getting used to the temperatures around zero.
On the first days it was impossible to go outside for running but now it's getting better. Last weekend I was in mountains and finally we could go to the top! It was not windy anymore and the sunshine and the landscape were just perfect! I enjoyed a lot! The feeling of belonging to the group, all the friendship that I breath there is unbelievably great! Thank you so much!
Here you can see us reaching the top of the mountain.



Well, next monday I will try to sky for the first time with both Wojciechs and next we'll go for the sports camp in Jagniatkow.

Finally I went to Sweden again! It was so nice! On the last four days I had the chance to meet some friends that I didn't see for a long time, to do very nice trainnings on challenging terrain and also to run my first trainning of night-orienteering in Sweden.
Trainnigs went very well and I felt much confident on this kind of terrain than before.I run a nigh-o trainning close to the club's house, long distance together with Julia, Linda,Ellen and Annika on the swedish long national championship map, middle distance on the Gnesta city map and also night orienteering on the swedish middle national championship map. This last trainning was terrific! I run together with Julia through the dark swedish forest on such a tough and technical terrain...but, the problem was more about lamp batteries unfortunately the lamp batterie was over and we had to come back to the car trough the darkness. It was crazy




First night-o trainning close to the club's house


Middle distance





Long distance trainning



Night-o with Julia

It was great going to Sweden during winter time.It so cold...but drinking a hot coffee in a warm and confortable swedish house made me forget it.
Now I'm looking forward to the spring to go there again and try to run some relays with the girls:cool:

Pierogi is a very traditional Polish dish eaten by everyone. Although often described as a stuffed dumpling, this speciality is more akin to Italian Ravioli. Indeed, it is thought that they were introduced to Polish cuisine about 500 years ago by Queen Bonna who was Italian
These little treasures are truly versatile. They can be served with soup, as a starter sprinkled with fried onion and bacon, as a main course either with a sauce or plain with sour cream although more often as an accompaniment to a main course and even as a dessert. Once boiled they can be served as they are, sautéed in butter or even deep fried and can be filled with practically anything you have to hand. The favourite fillings include seasoned pork or beef with onions, cottage cheese, sauerkraut, potatoes, cabbage and mushrooms.
My stay in Poland has been like pierogi filled by very good things! Wroclaw is a great city, full of parks, banks along the river, beautifull libraries, wonderfull churches and many others things, that make it much better then Porto for living and trainning. Being here has been like a break in my life and a gift full of very good things. Here I have time to take a deep breath, go out for trainning in the middle of the afternoon, go to the library, go out with friends at evening...I mean, here I don't feel the stressfull kind of life that I have in Porto. So nice!


SZCZYTNICKI PARK


ODRA - saturday trainning

Trainning here has been also very good. Poland is not the best place for orienteering, but definitely much better than in Portugal. It's great to take part in some competitions and trainnings with Slask Wroclaw. So nice and kind people that I really have to say DZIEKUJE BARDZO!!

Last 25th september I arrived to Wroclaw, Venice of east europe and one of the most beautiful citys in Poland. That’s here where I’ll live the next six months of my life! I’m taking part of erasmus programme and I’ll do part of the fifth year of medicine here at Wroclaw.
First days at wroclaw were so Great! This a beautiful city: a lot of bridges, magnific cathedral, central square (Rinek, one of the biggest of Europe), enormous green áreas and many others things that make this city one of the best in Europe for those that want to take part on erasmus programm. Wroclaw university has seven Nobel prices (some of them from students others from teachers) and has a new and excelent hospital to learn and practice medicine.



The only thing that I don’t appreciate so much is the cold at winter, as I’m used to the warm weather in Portugal. But th experience of living on a cold country and trainning with cold could be nice
Today I joined Slask Wroclaw (orienteering club) for trainning and I enjoyed a lot! They are very nice and kind people  I hope I can improve my running and orienteering skills with them. Next Saturday we’ll run a small competition in czech republic…and I’m looking forward to this!
See you soon!