Long distance national championship
Wednesday, 14. May 2008, 21:30:41
After sprint and middle distance national champs I felt really motivated to prepare the long distance for the national champ. So I changed a little my trainning programme for this kind of distance. I also took part on two trainning camps always navigating on 1:15 000 scale, preparing long legs and also getting used to the hot weather that would be expected to the champ.
Beside have been working a lot at med school I felt quite strong to the long distance and at 4th May at the start line I was perfectly focused and confident to that race. I was navigating quite ok and going on nice speed for long distance...althought as I was arriving to the 9th control I twisted my ankle.I stopped a little and then, started walking painfully to the next controls. I didn't want to give up because my team was expecting a good race from me as we were trying to reach the podium. So I kept walking and then started running slow until the end of the race. It a pitty!
1 Raquel Costa 83 [136] SRSPGafanhoeira 1:20:08
2 Maria Sá 86 [052] GD4C 1:26:03
3 Lídia Magalhães 79 [090] ADFA 1:32:28
4 Emília Silveira 76 [090] ADFA 1:32:33
5 Paula Nóbrega 71 [119] OriMarão 1:47:34
Beside have been working a lot at med school I felt quite strong to the long distance and at 4th May at the start line I was perfectly focused and confident to that race. I was navigating quite ok and going on nice speed for long distance...althought as I was arriving to the 9th control I twisted my ankle.I stopped a little and then, started walking painfully to the next controls. I didn't want to give up because my team was expecting a good race from me as we were trying to reach the podium. So I kept walking and then started running slow until the end of the race. It a pitty!
1 Raquel Costa 83 [136] SRSPGafanhoeira 1:20:08
2 Maria Sá 86 [052] GD4C 1:26:03
3 Lídia Magalhães 79 [090] ADFA 1:32:28
4 Emília Silveira 76 [090] ADFA 1:32:33
5 Paula Nóbrega 71 [119] OriMarão 1:47:34
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