Bandy's blog

Part I.
Sunny Saturday. Middle distance event. I started quite late wich was lucky because of the bushes.
Did a good warm-up, went to the start, and I just heared the sound 'beep'. Good tempo at the beginning, controls OK, some small mistake to 5th no problem I got back to the race, I saw the flag early at 8th, 10-14 OK, but then...
I was running down the hill at 15 and heared a big SCRATCH. Oh no. I almost fell down from the pain I felt. I began to feel freeze, and could hardly breathe. I've hit my knee to a big boulder. I know my race was over, I didn't even know what to do.. I decided not to give up but was very painful, like a horror.
I jogged to 16th, and than I tried everything with my one leg and my adrenaline in my head, I tried to push it hard till the very end with my only healty leg.
The result doesn't matter but.. I couldn't bend my foot after I've finished running. I didn't know what will come tomorrow or could I run or not.
But than came just the sweet Sunday race and the pain story will just now continue for me...

Still two and a half months left to my main target of this years o - season.. But I can't wait to run this contest! After almost two years with no international succes I'm hungry I can say. And that's what was missing in the previous year. I uploaded a well known map from Australia! Difficult but not impossible! Just feel the contours and don't care about the huge number of stones and rocks.. Some kind of tactics. But watch out and read what the new world champion Hanny Allston said in Orienteering Today..



Terrain features: http://jwoc2007.orienteering.asn.au/gfolder/JWOC07%20Terrain%20features.pdf
Bulletin2: http://jwoc2007.orienteering.asn.au/gfolder/bulletin2webv.pdf
Jwoc homepage: http://jwoc2007.orienteering.asn.au/

It was there, the usual spring contest in Hungary, nowadays the only two-day event in our home attracting more than a thousand competitors...

I started in men elite, where it was very special now; the normal categories had two classic distance race, but on the 1st day we had middle.
The course was really tricky, the terrain has a special part owning lots of detailed contours: small valleys, re-entrants, knolls, spurs with a vegetation of bushy and semi-open areas.

I started early and it gave me a special feeling to focus only on my orienteering, on my own route choises and tactics. I felt self- confident thanks to some mental exercises from my coach Magda. On the first control, I took a good route choice - where almost no one of the competitors has gone - and won about 20 seconds on the others. I catched a 2min earlier started runner at the second, but thank to the bad visibility a did not see him until control 4 where I overtook him finally.
The first two controls where in that challenging area, but the 3rd and 4th controls were out from here, in a flat and much quicker part. I think the km rate changed here to under 6min/ km. Apart from not being sure before the third (10sec.) I did not miss here, and had best split to control 4 (2:08). The fifth control was much different, a longer leg with some route choice. I focused to stay in direction and headed a bit south for not to get so mush uphill before the control. Control six was OK, but to the 7th I lost contact and had to relocate:confused: , lost about 1min - 1min 05' to this control. The 8 th and 9th were again out from this tricky area, I cought them flawlessly.
To control 10; there was a route choice, where I headed north instead of going along the valleys which lead to the control. On this uphill I began to feel really tired and was hard to concentrate on the map. I saw the flag from far, and than there were only the two remaining controls (11 and 12) in my mind. I tried to push hard to the 11th and got the control without problems. The very last uphill to the 12th was killing; the sun was shining hot, and it was so steep and 1-green that I had to use even my hands to climb up. I only tried to stay in contact focus on the map. "Come on, you can do it its the last control to find". And after some hesitating before the pit I finally got it:star: and had only to sprint down the hill to the spectator control and to the finish.
I felt really tired because of the heat and the green areas but I knew it will be hard for everyone. It was a pleasant tiredness.

My teammate Adam has won the race, with a time of 34:32, beating Zoltán "Diesel" Dénes (36:06) and bestfriend Zsolt (36:26) I finished 5th after G. Józsa with a time of 37:24, which made me very happy. Previously I was not so sure that in the middle I can be on top among the adults.
Thanks to his 1min20' mistake at the end I' ve beaten Peter Vonyo who was in a very good shape in the last 3-4 weeks.

Of course I am sure that in international its even not enough for a success, at a Jwoc final I m sure that the winner could run around 30 minutes. But here and now the warm weather added to all the runners' time extra 1-2 minutes. I judge the race for me was O.K. and a god beginning of the spring season.

Sportdent results: http://postas.mtfsz.hu/postaskupa/2007/1resz.html

Result: F21E (37) 5.4 km 230 m 13 ep

1 Kovács Ádám ETC Egri Testedző Club 34:32
2 Dénes Zoltán KAL Kalocsai SE 36:06
3 Lenkei Zsolt TTE Tipo Tájfutó és Környezet 36:26
4 Józsa Gábor XOST Östmarka OK 37:04
5 Szabó András ETC Egri Testedző Club 37:24
6 Vonyó Péter PVS Pécsi Vasutas SK 37:59

As you see I started to write a blog..
Maybe, I've too much time (I don't think so) or just to have fun.. Playing computer games doesn't make me joy, I'd rather write about my deepest orienteering feelings here =)
And: because it will be so deep and passionate I don't really plan to make this page so public.

Hallo meine liebe Freunde und alle Menchen surfing from Internet right here. Das ist mein neues Blog, hier kannst du einige interessante Topic von meinem O-carreer finden .. Ich kann nicht mehr so gut sprechen oder schreiben wie ein Paaar Jahre früher (da hab Ich mal die oberstufen-Sprachprüfung abgelegt=), aber wenn du auch english sprichst, wirdst du sicher alles verstehen. Mein Deutsch ist ja eine GermanAnglo Mischung Und auch mit eine Menge Fehlern... Entschuldigung dafür!