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World Orienteering Championships 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:41:29 PM
World Championships Sprint Qualification. Summary will come later...
Final preparation
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 5:22:00 PM
The last weeks I was totally concentrated on the World Championships. The last days of July Laura came to me to Romania. Together we went up to Harghita Bai for a training camp. It was the first time I was there in the summer (ok, I was there last summer for roller ski trainings, but the first time for a running training camp). We made interesting trainings, for example running up till the top of the mountain (from 1300m to 1750m) or running short uphill sprints.
The week after the training camp we relaxed a little bit, made some hiking in the mountains around the town.
Last weekend I ran the middle distance race at the Mentor Silva cup in Predeal. It wasn’t my best race of the summer
I made a lot of mistakes… Sunday I started the long distance race, but short cuted it. I ran only a shorter part with more controls. It was a good map reading training.
Sunday afternoon I drove up to Targu Mures, where Laura and I were invited to a wedding. Monday morning we drove to Eger.
I decided to come to Hungary one week before the World Championships to make my last preparation together with my personal coach, Boros Zoli. It’s better to be here to talk with him, to get more information from him. Now I’m in Sopron, Sunday we will travel back to Eger and on Monday the “party” will begin
I’ m waiting my entire friends on the 20th of August in Miskolc to support me during my Sprint race
Bye
The week after the training camp we relaxed a little bit, made some hiking in the mountains around the town.
Last weekend I ran the middle distance race at the Mentor Silva cup in Predeal. It wasn’t my best race of the summer
I made a lot of mistakes… Sunday I started the long distance race, but short cuted it. I ran only a shorter part with more controls. It was a good map reading training.Sunday afternoon I drove up to Targu Mures, where Laura and I were invited to a wedding. Monday morning we drove to Eger.
I decided to come to Hungary one week before the World Championships to make my last preparation together with my personal coach, Boros Zoli. It’s better to be here to talk with him, to get more information from him. Now I’m in Sopron, Sunday we will travel back to Eger and on Monday the “party” will begin
I’ m waiting my entire friends on the 20th of August in Miskolc to support me during my Sprint race
Bye
One month left!
Monday, July 20, 2009 4:40:12 PM
The final countdown for the World Championships started. I have exactly one month left till my sprint race in Miskolc. This week I will still train here in Miercurea Ciuc. Next Monday Laua will come to me and we will go up to Harghita Bai for a short training camp. After the training camp we will be one more week here in Ciuc, than I will run the Mentor Silva Cup in Predeal and on Monday, 10th of August we will travel to Sopron. There I will make my final preparation for the big race
Bye
My most successful weekend of the season: 4 races - 4 wins
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 9:29:45 PM
First:
I finished my exams!!!!!! Today I finished my second university year. Hm… truly it’s the 3rd, because the year in Zürich is not counted here in Romania.
Last weekend I took part at the Pannon Days. Friday morning I arrived to Budapest, there I met Laura. Some club mates of her (Eszter and Sanyi - http://dilettanstajfuto.blogspot.com/ ) took us to Veszprem. There we had a sprint competition:
Sprint race: 15.57; 3,5 km; avg pulse: 174; max pulse: 193; avg speed: 4:24; max speed: 2:12; climb: 10;
Mobile-O: 5.31; 1.2 km; avg pulse: 188; max pulse: 196; avg speed: 4:28; max speed: 2:52; climb: 65;
As you know, I’m preparing for the Sprint World Championships, so we (my coach – Boros Zoli and me) decided to run the M21 B short races, not Elite.I was very satisfied with my sprint race. I made only one small mistake: I saw the stairs, but I couldn’t find them on the map. I ran around the building instead running up directly the stairs – around 25 seconds. In the last part of the race I was quite tired, so I lost again some seconds because of the slow speed, but with all these seconds lost, I won 57s in front of Oszi. Laura finished 2nd in the W Elite race. After the race we run the mobile-o competition. First I guided her via mobile phone to the control points, than she guided me We made a really good teamwork so we could win our first cup together (it was a better race, than last year with Zozo, but that race was a lot funnier ) ).
Friday evening we put on our tent in the event center near Csesznek castle. We found a superb place for our tent with a beautiful panorama
Saturday a long distance race was on the plan. The elite race had really long races, but I had only 5.6km in the B Short class I started very late, but made once again a good race The 40s mistake was not a big problem for winning the race with more than 3 minutes. Laura finished on the 3rd place in the WE World Ranking Event race She won a beautiful pot
The map is damaged, I can't put it online
Long distance race: 43.13; 6.3 km; avg pulse: 180; max pulse: 192; avg speed: 6:15; max speed: 2:13; climb: 220;
In the afternoon we visited the Csesznek castle. We were lucky and we joined a group to listen to the guide. After the visit we watched the biggest race of the weekend: the beer relay In the evening a small party was organized for the competitors. I was focused on the competitions so after a short party time we got to sleep much earlier than the others.
Sunday was a long distance (once again 5.6km) chasing start competition. I started with more than 7 minutes advantage. I knew, I have to make a controlled race, slower but without big mistakes. I did my job very well, with only one mistake in the last part of the race, won the day with 2 minutes, so finally I had around 9 minutes advantage in the finish. Laura started second, but with only one minute in front of the 3rd competitor (Szivak Ildi). She made a good tactical race, she started slower, Ildi catched her, but on the last uphill Laura was faster, so she finished 2nd overall Congratulations to her very good result
Long distance race: 44.47; 6.5 km; avg pulse: 175; max pulse: 188; avg speed: 6:27; max speed: 2:19; climb: 190;
My plan was to travel home after the race, but unfortunately the bus was full, so I had to stay one more day in Hungary. I travelled with Laura to Sopron. Monday morning we ran together with Laura and Zoli around Sopron (55:08, around 10km, avg pulse: 154, max pulse: 172).
Yesterday afternoon I travelled by train from Sopron to Budapest and from there by bus home to Miercurea Ciuc. I arrived here at 6.45, at 7.20 I took the train to Brasov, because today I had my last exam.
So this was my best weekend of this foot-o season.
Bye
I finished my exams!!!!!! Today I finished my second university year. Hm… truly it’s the 3rd, because the year in Zürich is not counted here in Romania.
Last weekend I took part at the Pannon Days. Friday morning I arrived to Budapest, there I met Laura. Some club mates of her (Eszter and Sanyi - http://dilettanstajfuto.blogspot.com/ ) took us to Veszprem. There we had a sprint competition:
Sprint race: 15.57; 3,5 km; avg pulse: 174; max pulse: 193; avg speed: 4:24; max speed: 2:12; climb: 10;
Mobile-O: 5.31; 1.2 km; avg pulse: 188; max pulse: 196; avg speed: 4:28; max speed: 2:52; climb: 65;
As you know, I’m preparing for the Sprint World Championships, so we (my coach – Boros Zoli and me) decided to run the M21 B short races, not Elite.I was very satisfied with my sprint race. I made only one small mistake: I saw the stairs, but I couldn’t find them on the map. I ran around the building instead running up directly the stairs – around 25 seconds. In the last part of the race I was quite tired, so I lost again some seconds because of the slow speed, but with all these seconds lost, I won 57s in front of Oszi. Laura finished 2nd in the W Elite race.
After the race we run the mobile-o competition. First I guided her via mobile phone to the control points, than she guided me We made a really good teamwork so we could win our first cup together (it was a better race, than last year with Zozo, but that race was a lot funnier ) ).Friday evening we put on our tent in the event center near Csesznek castle. We found a superb place for our tent with a beautiful panorama
Saturday a long distance race was on the plan. The elite race had really long races, but I had only 5.6km in the B Short class
I started very late, but made once again a good race The 40s mistake was not a big problem for winning the race with more than 3 minutes. Laura finished on the 3rd place in the WE World Ranking Event race She won a beautiful pot The map is damaged, I can't put it online
Long distance race: 43.13; 6.3 km; avg pulse: 180; max pulse: 192; avg speed: 6:15; max speed: 2:13; climb: 220;
In the afternoon we visited the Csesznek castle. We were lucky and we joined a group to listen to the guide. After the visit we watched the biggest race of the weekend: the beer relay
In the evening a small party was organized for the competitors. I was focused on the competitions so after a short party time we got to sleep much earlier than the others. Sunday was a long distance (once again 5.6km) chasing start competition. I started with more than 7 minutes advantage. I knew, I have to make a controlled race, slower but without big mistakes. I did my job very well, with only one mistake in the last part of the race, won the day with 2 minutes, so finally I had around 9 minutes advantage in the finish. Laura started second, but with only one minute in front of the 3rd competitor (Szivak Ildi). She made a good tactical race, she started slower, Ildi catched her, but on the last uphill Laura was faster, so she finished 2nd overall
Congratulations to her very good result Long distance race: 44.47; 6.5 km; avg pulse: 175; max pulse: 188; avg speed: 6:27; max speed: 2:19; climb: 190;
My plan was to travel home after the race, but unfortunately the bus was full, so I had to stay one more day in Hungary. I travelled with Laura to Sopron. Monday morning we ran together with Laura and Zoli around Sopron (55:08, around 10km, avg pulse: 154, max pulse: 172).
Yesterday afternoon I travelled by train from Sopron to Budapest and from there by bus home to Miercurea Ciuc. I arrived here at 6.45, at 7.20 I took the train to Brasov, because today I had my last exam.
So this was my best weekend of this foot-o season.
Bye
Miskolc, I will be there!!!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 8:15:56 PM
Once again after long time I’m writing on my blog.
I’m still learning, I have 2 more exams (one tomorrow and one next Tuesday). Till now I’m satisfied with my exam results.
Yesterday I finally got the decision for the World Championships:
I WILL RUN THE SPRINT RACE!!!!
It was a big fight between Zozo and me, but I ran exactly the time I had to run on the 4000 m, to beat him and qualify for the World Championships I will be one of the few orienteers participating in both ski-o and foot-o World Championships this year (Oystein Kvaal Osterbro and Liisa Antila are the other two competitors I know running both winter and summer).
With my trainings I’m on the right way I had a good June, with balanced weeks. Last week Laura was here for one week We made interesting trainings together For example we ran up from Bradet chalet to Harghita Bai or we bike to the Szepviz Lake. It was funny to train with somebody, not only alone like every other day
I ran the Romanian Cup two weekends ago in Baia Mare. I finished 6th, with almost no mistakes on the long distance, but I was a little bit slow and some small mistakes in the middle distance. I’m satisfied with my actual results. Last years in May-June I was far away of the top Romanian athletes. After I finish my exams I will have time to concentrate more and more on training, preparing for Miskolc
Tomorrow, after the exam, I will travel to Hungary to run the Pannon Days in Veszprem/Csesznek. Friday afternoon a sprint race will be held in Veszprem historical downtown. I’m really looking for that race It will be big fun running in the city
Last weekend the IOF Event Advisor (Juraj Nemec) visited us to check the facilities for next year’s competitions. We visited some hotels, competition center, opening ceremony place and start-finish areas. He was satisfied with our work till now Saturday morning we made a short press conference Here you can read about it (it’s only in Hungarian):
“Csíkszereda lesz a házigazdája a jövő évi ifjúsági sítájfutó világbajnokságnak. A 2010. február elején zajló ifi vébével egy időben felnőtt Világkupa-futamot és veterán világbajnokságot is rendeznek majd Csíkban, szintén sítájfutásban, de a szervezők azt szeretnék, ha ugyanebben az időszakban kerülne sor a hagyományos csíki sífutó tömegversenyre, a Csíki Símaratonra is.
Csíkszereda a romániai sítájfutás fellegvára, a város és környéke több ízben volt országos bajnokság, illetve nemzetközi verseny színhelye, így nem véletlenül esett Csíkszeredára a választás, de ebben fontos szerepe volt a Csúcs-család e szép sportág melletti elkötelezettségének is. Az eseményt felvezető sajtótájékoztatón jelen volt a szlovák Juraj Nemec, a Nemzetközi Tájfutó Szövetség ellenőre, Ráduly Róbert Kálmán, Csíkszereda polgármestere, illetve Csúcs András és fia, Csúcs Klaus, a szervezőbizottság tagjai. Ráduly Róbert szerint a sportminisztérium és a szakszövetség ígéretet tett, besegít a szervezésbe, de fontos szerepe lesz a rendezésben a városnak, mely a Csíki Sportegyleten keresztül támogatja a rendezvényt.
A sítájfutás a sífutás és a tájfutás keveréke. A sítájfutó versenylécek nem különböznek a sífutó-versenyeken a korcsolya stílusban használt lécektől. A tájékozódás pedig megegyezik a tájfutásnál alkalmazottal. A verseny nagyrészt (95-99%) előkészített, (motoros szánnal fektetett) sínyomokon zajlik. Sítájfutásban azok a nemzetek a legjobbak a világon, akik sífutásban, biatlonban, illetve jégkorongban jeleskednek. Romániában évek óta a Csúcs-család és a csíkiak uralják a hazai sítájfutó versenyeket. Csúcs Klaus több nemzetközi sítájfutó versenyen is a mezőny első felében végzett. Csúcs András elmondotta, hogy az eddigi romániai sítájfutó versenyeknek kétharmada a Csíki-medencében, a Marosfőtől Kalibáskőig terjedő részen zajlott, megérett tehát az idő egy világverseny lebonyolítására. A február 8 – 15. között, hétfőtől hétfőig zajló versenyek helyszínének a Fenyőke (Brădeţ) menedékház környékét jelölik ki, a váltóversenyeknek pedig Hargitafürdő ad otthont. A nyitó-, illetve záróünnepségnek Csíkszereda központja ad majd otthont, a verseny titkársága, szervező bizottsága és sajtóközpontja a Sapientia Egyetem épületében működik. Csúcs elmondotta, hogy közel 30 ország 400-450 sportolóját várják Csíkszeredába.
Juraj Nemec elégedett volt az itt tapasztaltakkal, bár kifogásolta az utak minőségét. Nemec úr szerint a meglátogatott szállás-lehetőségek, a helyi emberek és a szervezők komolysága biztosíték arra, hogy sikeres világversenynek adhat majd otthont Csíkszereda. Az ellenőr elmondotta, hogy a nemzetközi tájfutó szövetség a tájfutás négy változatát támogatja, a nyári tájfutást, a sítájfutást, a tájkerékpárt és a trailt, a mozgássérültek számára kialakított változatot. Ezek közül a sítájfutásnak van a legnagyobb esélye, hogy bekerüljön a téli olimpia műsorába. Csíkszereda utoljára 2006. januárjában rendezett hasonló méretű világversenyt, akkor a Vákár Lajos Műjégpálya volt a házigazdája az ifjúsági short track, azaz rövidpályás gyorskorcsolya világbajnokságnak. Akkor 30 ország képviselői érkeztek a Székelyföldre. Dobos László„ Csiki Hirlap, 2009.06.27
June training data:
Total training units: 24
Total training time: 28:20
Total training km: 303.9 km
Bye
I’m still learning, I have 2 more exams (one tomorrow and one next Tuesday). Till now I’m satisfied with my exam results.
Yesterday I finally got the decision for the World Championships:
I WILL RUN THE SPRINT RACE!!!!
It was a big fight between Zozo and me, but I ran exactly the time I had to run on the 4000 m, to beat him and qualify for the World Championships
I will be one of the few orienteers participating in both ski-o and foot-o World Championships this year (Oystein Kvaal Osterbro and Liisa Antila are the other two competitors I know running both winter and summer). With my trainings I’m on the right way
I had a good June, with balanced weeks. Last week Laura was here for one week We made interesting trainings together For example we ran up from Bradet chalet to Harghita Bai or we bike to the Szepviz Lake. It was funny to train with somebody, not only alone like every other day I ran the Romanian Cup two weekends ago in Baia Mare. I finished 6th, with almost no mistakes on the long distance, but I was a little bit slow and some small mistakes in the middle distance. I’m satisfied with my actual results. Last years in May-June I was far away of the top Romanian athletes. After I finish my exams I will have time to concentrate more and more on training, preparing for Miskolc
Tomorrow, after the exam, I will travel to Hungary to run the Pannon Days in Veszprem/Csesznek. Friday afternoon a sprint race will be held in Veszprem historical downtown. I’m really looking for that race
It will be big fun running in the city Last weekend the IOF Event Advisor (Juraj Nemec) visited us to check the facilities for next year’s competitions. We visited some hotels, competition center, opening ceremony place and start-finish areas. He was satisfied with our work till now
Saturday morning we made a short press conference Here you can read about it (it’s only in Hungarian):“Csíkszereda lesz a házigazdája a jövő évi ifjúsági sítájfutó világbajnokságnak. A 2010. február elején zajló ifi vébével egy időben felnőtt Világkupa-futamot és veterán világbajnokságot is rendeznek majd Csíkban, szintén sítájfutásban, de a szervezők azt szeretnék, ha ugyanebben az időszakban kerülne sor a hagyományos csíki sífutó tömegversenyre, a Csíki Símaratonra is.
Csíkszereda a romániai sítájfutás fellegvára, a város és környéke több ízben volt országos bajnokság, illetve nemzetközi verseny színhelye, így nem véletlenül esett Csíkszeredára a választás, de ebben fontos szerepe volt a Csúcs-család e szép sportág melletti elkötelezettségének is. Az eseményt felvezető sajtótájékoztatón jelen volt a szlovák Juraj Nemec, a Nemzetközi Tájfutó Szövetség ellenőre, Ráduly Róbert Kálmán, Csíkszereda polgármestere, illetve Csúcs András és fia, Csúcs Klaus, a szervezőbizottság tagjai. Ráduly Róbert szerint a sportminisztérium és a szakszövetség ígéretet tett, besegít a szervezésbe, de fontos szerepe lesz a rendezésben a városnak, mely a Csíki Sportegyleten keresztül támogatja a rendezvényt.
A sítájfutás a sífutás és a tájfutás keveréke. A sítájfutó versenylécek nem különböznek a sífutó-versenyeken a korcsolya stílusban használt lécektől. A tájékozódás pedig megegyezik a tájfutásnál alkalmazottal. A verseny nagyrészt (95-99%) előkészített, (motoros szánnal fektetett) sínyomokon zajlik. Sítájfutásban azok a nemzetek a legjobbak a világon, akik sífutásban, biatlonban, illetve jégkorongban jeleskednek. Romániában évek óta a Csúcs-család és a csíkiak uralják a hazai sítájfutó versenyeket. Csúcs Klaus több nemzetközi sítájfutó versenyen is a mezőny első felében végzett. Csúcs András elmondotta, hogy az eddigi romániai sítájfutó versenyeknek kétharmada a Csíki-medencében, a Marosfőtől Kalibáskőig terjedő részen zajlott, megérett tehát az idő egy világverseny lebonyolítására. A február 8 – 15. között, hétfőtől hétfőig zajló versenyek helyszínének a Fenyőke (Brădeţ) menedékház környékét jelölik ki, a váltóversenyeknek pedig Hargitafürdő ad otthont. A nyitó-, illetve záróünnepségnek Csíkszereda központja ad majd otthont, a verseny titkársága, szervező bizottsága és sajtóközpontja a Sapientia Egyetem épületében működik. Csúcs elmondotta, hogy közel 30 ország 400-450 sportolóját várják Csíkszeredába.
Juraj Nemec elégedett volt az itt tapasztaltakkal, bár kifogásolta az utak minőségét. Nemec úr szerint a meglátogatott szállás-lehetőségek, a helyi emberek és a szervezők komolysága biztosíték arra, hogy sikeres világversenynek adhat majd otthont Csíkszereda. Az ellenőr elmondotta, hogy a nemzetközi tájfutó szövetség a tájfutás négy változatát támogatja, a nyári tájfutást, a sítájfutást, a tájkerékpárt és a trailt, a mozgássérültek számára kialakított változatot. Ezek közül a sítájfutásnak van a legnagyobb esélye, hogy bekerüljön a téli olimpia műsorába. Csíkszereda utoljára 2006. januárjában rendezett hasonló méretű világversenyt, akkor a Vákár Lajos Műjégpálya volt a házigazdája az ifjúsági short track, azaz rövidpályás gyorskorcsolya világbajnokságnak. Akkor 30 ország képviselői érkeztek a Székelyföldre. Dobos László„ Csiki Hirlap, 2009.06.27
June training data:
Total training units: 24
Total training time: 28:20
Total training km: 303.9 km
Bye
Still alive and mountianbike race
Monday, June 8, 2009 7:29:24 PM
I’m still alive
My training for the summer competitions is going well.
Last weeks I made some interesting runs. For example I ran up to the Tampa mountain in Brasov or ran 30 times 150m fast + 50m slow.
Saturday I started at the 5th edition of the “Ciuc mountains mountain bike marathon”. It was a really hard race (41 km with 1100m climbing). More than 200 competitors participated. The uphill`s were very good for me, but I lost a lot on the downhill`s… Finally I finished somewhere around the 60th place (official results will be online only tomorrow). It was fun to run such a race I really enjoyed it.
Now I’m a little bit stressed, because next Monday I start my summer exams and I have to learn, but I will continue the trainings (and hopefully write more often on my blog )
Bye
My training for the summer competitions is going well.
Last weeks I made some interesting runs. For example I ran up to the Tampa mountain in Brasov or ran 30 times 150m fast + 50m slow.
Saturday I started at the 5th edition of the “Ciuc mountains mountain bike marathon”. It was a really hard race (41 km with 1100m climbing). More than 200 competitors participated. The uphill`s were very good for me, but I lost a lot on the downhill`s… Finally I finished somewhere around the 60th place (official results will be online only tomorrow). It was fun to run such a race
I really enjoyed it. Now I’m a little bit stressed, because next Monday I start my summer exams
and I have to learn, but I will continue the trainings (and hopefully write more often on my blog )Bye
Not my best weeks...
Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:23:28 AM
After a long time I write once again on my blog. A lot happened the last two weeks. I had some up’s but more down’s …
Let’s start from the first weekend:
Craiova Sprint
On Thursday (7th of May), Zozo and me drove down to Craiova for Friday’s two sprint qualification races. The races were organized it the biggest park of Craiova. I was really lucky with the start draw, because Zozo (we are fighting for the 3rd place for the WOC) stated 2 min in front of me. He had the bigger pressure. At the 5th and 6th control he made mistakes, so I catched him
He was faster than me but made once again mistakes so I passed him for some meters. On the last part of the race I got tired, couldn’t run fast so he finished 36 seconds before me. I was satisfied with my race: no mistakes and 1.24 better than Zozo.In the afternoon we had one more race. It was quite hot… I was not in my best mood. I felt tired from the beginning and to the 6th control I made a one minute mistake. The control was in the forest in a small hole. The problem was with the 1m high grass in the forest
. After one minute of searching, finally I found it. Later on I made one more 15 s mistake ( In the end Zozo beat me with 20 s… he was better in the afternoon. That’s it…After the races we drove home to Miercurea Ciuc.
On Saturday we run a mountain running competition. The total distance was 12km (6 laps à 2 km’s). After 2 laps I stopped. I felt very tired after the sprint races.
Hungarian Sprint Championships
Last weekend I was in Pecs, Hungary for their sprint championships. Saturday morning the qualification race was held in Komlo, near Pecs. The first part was in the forest, the last part in the town. Unfortunately I had once again problems with a hole in the forest
where I lost more than 2 minutes… I finished 11th, 32 seconds behind the last A final qualification place… You can imagine how disappointed I was…The final was held in the town (without any forest part
). I knew before the race, that we (the B finalists) will have the same course like the “big” A finalists. After the bad quail race it was hard for me to get a final mood. But I managed it, I made a good final (not my best ever race, but good). My final time 18.42, would have been the 11th place in the A final…On Sunday I was spectator for the Team Championships..
This afternoon I will drive to Cluj. Tomorrow morning I will run 4000m on the stadium. That will decide who will go to the World Championships: Zozo or me…
Bye
Wednesday...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 8:05:15 PM
Today I made my last fast training before Friday’s sprint competitions.
I ran 2.5 km warm up and then I started the fast part of the training. The plan was 90 seconds fast 4 times. My first lap was 99 s, the second 94 s, third 97 s (here I had to slow down because of somebody crossing my road) and the last 89 s. I felt quite good during the training. I had only problems getting used with my new shoes. Probably I won’t use them on Friday.
Tomorrow afternoon I will drive down to Craiova. There we will have two sprint races on Friday. Both will be qualification races for the World Championships this summer in Hungary.
Bye
Time: 33.27
Distance: 6.7 km
AVG pulse: 164
Max pulse: 187
AVG speed: 4:52 min/km
Max speed: 3:11 min/km
I ran 2.5 km warm up and then I started the fast part of the training. The plan was 90 seconds fast 4 times. My first lap was 99 s, the second 94 s, third 97 s (here I had to slow down because of somebody crossing my road) and the last 89 s. I felt quite good during the training. I had only problems getting used with my new shoes. Probably I won’t use them on Friday.
Tomorrow afternoon I will drive down to Craiova. There we will have two sprint races on Friday. Both will be qualification races for the World Championships this summer in Hungary.
Bye
Time: 33.27
Distance: 6.7 km
AVG pulse: 164
Max pulse: 187
AVG speed: 4:52 min/km
Max speed: 3:11 min/km
Winning my first race of the year
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 7:33:59 PM
Last weekend I ran the TIPO Cup in Gyöngyöstarján, Hungary.
Because of this weekend’s sprint qualification races and next weekend’s Hungarian Sprint Championships, I decided not to run Elite class (Friday and Saturday long distance). My choice was M21B Short. Unfortunately I still have no scanner, so I can’t show you maps Friday I had a 6.2 km race. I made a mistake already to the first control. My mistakes continued during the whole race I finished 10th, 7 minutes behind the winner. I won 5 intermediate times, but lost around 11-12 minutes with mistakes.
Saturday we had once again a 6.2 km race. This time I made a much better race. I still had some small mistakes and was a little bit slow in the middle part. With my 3rd place I climbed up to the 6th place total time of both days.
The final race day was 3,7 km “middle distance”. I started almost last, so I already knew some times in the finish before my race. I knew, I have to run 23.50 to get onto the podium. I started fast, continued fast and finished faster I lost only some seconds because an SI unit didn’t work with the new SI cards. My final time was 24.38, so I lost the podium by some seconds, but won Sunday's race. Despite only the 4th place, I’m very satisfied with my weekend. I made a good race on the most important day with the biggest pressure on me.
I gave all my best on the finish
Yesterday I made an easy run in Budapest, only to get the tiredness out of my legs. In the afternoon we went out to buy Laura new running shoes. Despite our plan to buy her shoes I brought first new shoes But finally we found also good Nike shoes for Laura
My new shoes:
Because of this weekend’s sprint qualification races and next weekend’s Hungarian Sprint Championships, I decided not to run Elite class (Friday and Saturday long distance). My choice was M21B Short. Unfortunately I still have no scanner, so I can’t show you maps
Friday I had a 6.2 km race. I made a mistake already to the first control. My mistakes continued during the whole race I finished 10th, 7 minutes behind the winner. I won 5 intermediate times, but lost around 11-12 minutes with mistakes.Saturday we had once again a 6.2 km race. This time I made a much better race. I still had some small mistakes and was a little bit slow in the middle part. With my 3rd place I climbed up to the 6th place total time of both days.
The final race day was 3,7 km “middle distance”. I started almost last, so I already knew some times in the finish before my race. I knew, I have to run 23.50 to get onto the podium. I started fast, continued fast and finished faster
I lost only some seconds because an SI unit didn’t work with the new SI cards. My final time was 24.38, so I lost the podium by some seconds, but won Sunday's race. Despite only the 4th place, I’m very satisfied with my weekend. I made a good race on the most important day with the biggest pressure on me. I gave all my best on the finish
Yesterday I made an easy run in Budapest, only to get the tiredness out of my legs. In the afternoon we went out to buy Laura new running shoes. Despite our plan to buy her shoes I brought first new shoes
But finally we found also good Nike shoes for Laura My new shoes:
Preparing for the Tipo
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:07:56 PM
Yesterday I tried to make a fast training (1:30 fast, 1:30 slow), but unfortunately my legs started to hurt after 3 runs, so I decided to cancel the training. I ran home and took a warm bath.
This morning my training plan showed me a short run with some 120-150 m sprints. My legs felt much better, but still not 100%.
This night I will travel to Budapest. Tomorrow eveing we will drive up to Eger. From Friday to Sunday I will participate at the Tipo Cup. I'm still preparing for sprint races thats why I decided to run the M21 B short class.
Bye
Running up to the Somylo peak
Sunday, April 26, 2009 8:49:54 PM
Yesterday I made a shorter run, only 51 minutes. First I made the warm up, than I made 100 m sprints up on a hill 12 times. I felt really good
The last two sprints were the fastest.Today I had planned a long run. I decided to up to the top of the Somlyo mountain. Totally I run 97 min. The sun was shining, I enjoyed the training. Now I feel a little bit tired, but tomorrow I will have a free day.
Bye
Time: 51.53 / 96.40
Distance: 8.5 km / 15.4
High difference: 100 m / 450 m
AVG speed: 5:56 min/km / 6:15 min/km
Max speed: 3:15 min/km / 3:17 min/km
12 days in Hungary
Friday, April 24, 2009 9:52:27 AM
Finally I have some time to write on my blog. Sorry for the delay… Since my last post a lot happened to me.
First the Postas weekend
Friday afternoon we ran a sprint competition in Eger. The whole Thursday afternoon we walked with Laura in the old city of Eger to see the interesting places for next day’s competition. Than the surprise: the competition was around the park and spa I made a good race till control nr. 16… I tried to enter to the spa through the main entrance, but that was closed, so I had to go around to the open gate (other competitors tried also the same ). Unfortunately I lost almost 1:30… But luckily I beat Zozo once again with 2 s, so I finished 3rd between the Romanians. That means I’m still on the right way to qualify for the WOC. Saturday I gave all my best in the middle distance qualification, qualified for the A final, but was totally dead for the final… Sunday’s long distance race was a big fight for me… but I finished the race!!! I’m not used to run long distance races… Monday I had no relay, so I was only spectator and personal coach for Laura Summary I had a hard weekend. The competitions were tough , but I enjoyed the whole Easter weekend in Eger with Laura and her family.
Here you can watch a short interview I gave Miskolc TV : http://postas.mtfsz.hu/postaskupa/
After the sprint race
The week in Sopron
Monday evening we drove from Eger to Sopron. I was there till Saturday morning. During this time we made some good runs together, we biked once, we made sightseeing (Laura showed me how beautiful Sopron is ) and we enjoyed our holiday together.
After running in Sopron
Semmelweis Cup
Saturday morning Agi (Lauras mother), Zoli (Agi’s fiancé) and me drove down to the Semmelweis Cup, near Veszprem. Unfortunately Laura couldn’t come with us, because she has this weekend (today and tomorrow) German language exam and she had to learn (please cross your finger for her ).
The competition was a long distance race. I started well, I had a good speed, made no big mistakes till cp nr 7. There I made my biggest mistake of the year (yet ), I lost around 5 minutes. From there on I couldn’t find a good tempo, made more and more mistakes. Finally I finished with 92 min on 12 km. Unfortunately during the race I hit my right knee, so I couldn’t run Sundays competition Harkanyi Zoli (not Agi’s fiancé he is Boros Zoli) won both days. Sunday we didn’t know that I wouldn’t run, he made mistakes and was expecting to be catched by me He was surprised when he heard that I skipped the competition. I helped organizing, because my Hungarian club (HSE Szentendre) organized Sunday’s competition.
Saturday evening Agi and Zoli took me into Veszprem and showed me the beautiful old city. Eger, Sopron and Veszprem: 3 beautiful places in one week The night to Sunday we slept in tents It was a little bit cold, but funny to camp already in April. After the competition Zoli drove me up to Budapest. Laura was already there, we took lunch together and later on in the afternoon I took the OPEN WORLD bus home to Miercurea Ciuc.
I had beautiful 10 days in Hungary together with Laura, Agi and Zoli. Thanks a lot!
Back home
Monday morning I arrived well home. This week I have no lessons , but I had a lot to work. So I had no time to write, but I had some time to make trainings: Monday a slow jog together with my father, Tuesday a faster run with 20min competition tempo, yesterday a shorter run.
This weekend the Romanian ultra long distance will be held (without me ). I decided not to take part. A 23 km race is not the best training for sprint competitions.
Next weekend I will travel once again to Hungary , to Eger. I will run the Tipo Cup. The Tipo weekend is a little bit too tough for me (Friday and Saturday long, Sunday middle), that’s why I decided to skip the first long and run only the mircosprint Friday afternoon.
During this week I also made a lot of preparation for next year’s big ski-o races. We got an offer for the transportation, for the speaker (Kocsik Arpi) and we started to contact the hotels. We also got the first sponsor : Nordenmark company from Sweden (www.nordenmark.com)
Bye
First the Postas weekend
Friday afternoon we ran a sprint competition in Eger. The whole Thursday afternoon we walked with Laura in the old city of Eger to see the interesting places for next day’s competition. Than the surprise: the competition was around the park and spa
I made a good race till control nr. 16… I tried to enter to the spa through the main entrance, but that was closed, so I had to go around to the open gate (other competitors tried also the same ). Unfortunately I lost almost 1:30… But luckily I beat Zozo once again with 2 s, so I finished 3rd between the Romanians. That means I’m still on the right way to qualify for the WOC. Saturday I gave all my best in the middle distance qualification, qualified for the A final, but was totally dead for the final… Sunday’s long distance race was a big fight for me… but I finished the race!!! I’m not used to run long distance races… Monday I had no relay, so I was only spectator and personal coach for Laura Summary I had a hard weekend. The competitions were tough , but I enjoyed the whole Easter weekend in Eger with Laura and her family.Here you can watch a short interview I gave Miskolc TV : http://postas.mtfsz.hu/postaskupa/
After the sprint race
The week in Sopron
Monday evening we drove from Eger to Sopron. I was there till Saturday morning. During this time we made some good runs together, we biked once, we made sightseeing (Laura showed me how beautiful Sopron is
) and we enjoyed our holiday together. After running in Sopron
Semmelweis Cup
Saturday morning Agi (Lauras mother), Zoli (Agi’s fiancé) and me drove down to the Semmelweis Cup, near Veszprem. Unfortunately Laura couldn’t come with us, because she has this weekend (today and tomorrow) German language exam and she had to learn (please cross your finger for her
).The competition was a long distance race. I started well, I had a good speed, made no big mistakes till cp nr 7. There I made my biggest mistake of the year (yet
), I lost around 5 minutes. From there on I couldn’t find a good tempo, made more and more mistakes. Finally I finished with 92 min on 12 km. Unfortunately during the race I hit my right knee, so I couldn’t run Sundays competition Harkanyi Zoli (not Agi’s fiancé he is Boros Zoli) won both days. Sunday we didn’t know that I wouldn’t run, he made mistakes and was expecting to be catched by me He was surprised when he heard that I skipped the competition. I helped organizing, because my Hungarian club (HSE Szentendre) organized Sunday’s competition.Saturday evening Agi and Zoli took me into Veszprem and showed me the beautiful old city. Eger, Sopron and Veszprem: 3 beautiful places in one week
The night to Sunday we slept in tents It was a little bit cold, but funny to camp already in April. After the competition Zoli drove me up to Budapest. Laura was already there, we took lunch together and later on in the afternoon I took the OPEN WORLD bus home to Miercurea Ciuc.I had beautiful 10 days in Hungary together with Laura, Agi and Zoli. Thanks a lot!
Back home
Monday morning I arrived well home. This week I have no lessons
, but I had a lot to work. So I had no time to write, but I had some time to make trainings: Monday a slow jog together with my father, Tuesday a faster run with 20min competition tempo, yesterday a shorter run.This weekend the Romanian ultra long distance will be held (without me
). I decided not to take part. A 23 km race is not the best training for sprint competitions.Next weekend I will travel once again to Hungary
, to Eger. I will run the Tipo Cup. The Tipo weekend is a little bit too tough for me (Friday and Saturday long, Sunday middle), that’s why I decided to skip the first long and run only the mircosprint Friday afternoon.During this week I also made a lot of preparation for next year’s big ski-o races. We got an offer for the transportation, for the speaker (Kocsik Arpi) and we started to contact the hotels. We also got the first sponsor
: Nordenmark company from Sweden (www.nordenmark.com)Bye
Preparing for the Postas
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 3:58:08 PM
This morning I arrived to Budapest. Now I just finished a longer sprint competition (4.3 km) in the Nepliget park here in Budapest. It was a good training for Friday’s sprint race in Eger. That race will be one of the 6 qualification races for the World Championships for the sprint.
Tomorrow afternoon I will travel together with Laura to Eger, we will make a short walk in the town to see the key points of the city As I already told you, Friday afternoon will be the race in Eger. Saturday, Sunday and Monday will be held the Postas cup half way between Eger and Miskolc. It will be an interesting competition; I just mention three of the competitors: Daniel Hubmann, Matthias Merz, Tero Föhr. The whole Swiss, Finnish, Norwegian and German National teams will be here… I have no luck with the starting order… Friday I start 3rd and Saturday I will open the middle distance competition
Bye
Tomorrow afternoon I will travel together with Laura to Eger, we will make a short walk in the town to see the key points of the city
As I already told you, Friday afternoon will be the race in Eger. Saturday, Sunday and Monday will be held the Postas cup half way between Eger and Miskolc. It will be an interesting competition; I just mention three of the competitors: Daniel Hubmann, Matthias Merz, Tero Föhr. The whole Swiss, Finnish, Norwegian and German National teams will be here… I have no luck with the starting order… Friday I start 3rd and Saturday I will open the middle distance competition Bye
Skiing in April
Friday, April 3, 2009 7:10:06 PM
My day started with an exam I passed it without problems
After some hours I took the train and came home. My brother will have tomorrow a cross country competition. He will represent his school. To have one ski training before the competition (he didn’t ski the whole winter) we decided to drive up to Harghita and ski a little bit. The weather was superb… Here is a picture… I think it’s enough to see the picture and you can understand how it was
Tomorrow morning I will go with Uwe to the competition and will enjoy the beautiful weather
I passed it without problems After some hours I took the train and came home. My brother will have tomorrow a cross country competition. He will represent his school. To have one ski training before the competition (he didn’t ski the whole winter) we decided to drive up to Harghita and ski a little bit. The weather was superb… Here is a picture… I think it’s enough to see the picture and you can understand how it was
Tomorrow morning I will go with Uwe to the competition and will enjoy the beautiful weather
Strazilovo Cup
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 9:00:23 AM
The foot-o season started last week in Serbia at the Strazilovo Cup.
I travelled together with Laura from Budapest down to Novi Sad. There we lived near the Danube The house and the surroundings were really beautiful. Friday evening we watched the sunset from the Danube bank. It was so romantic
Saturday we had a middle distance competition. It was my first competition this spring, so my plan was to make a competition without any mistakes. I was quite slow, but I almost managed to make no mistakes. To the 10th control I went a little bit to the left, but I saw the path so I know I’m too far on the left and I corrected my mistake.
Finally I finished on the 14th place and got 576 WRE points. I beat Zozo by 8 seconds
The second day we had a long distance race. My plan was once again to go without mistakes and as straight as possible. Once again I was slow (it was very steep and I couldn’t run ), but I made no mistakes I finished 15th, but I beat once again Zozo … with 2 seconds
I’m satisfied with the orienteering part but very angry about my running part. I was so slow... Saturday it was very warm (+20), once again I couldn’t breath…
Bye
Competition data:
Strazilovo Cup Middle distance / Long distance
Time: 49.31 / 87.11
Distance: 5.7 km / 9.6
High difference: 330 m / 580 m
AVG pulse: 193 / 187
Max pulse: 184 / 173
AVG speed: 8:40 min/km / 8:54 min/km
Max speed: 2:55 min/km / 2:34 min/km
I travelled together with Laura from Budapest down to Novi Sad. There we lived near the Danube
The house and the surroundings were really beautiful. Friday evening we watched the sunset from the Danube bank. It was so romantic Saturday we had a middle distance competition. It was my first competition this spring, so my plan was to make a competition without any mistakes. I was quite slow, but I almost managed to make no mistakes. To the 10th control I went a little bit to the left, but I saw the path so I know I’m too far on the left and I corrected my mistake.
Finally I finished on the 14th place and got 576 WRE points. I beat Zozo by 8 seconds
The second day we had a long distance race. My plan was once again to go without mistakes and as straight as possible. Once again I was slow (it was very steep and I couldn’t run
), but I made no mistakes I finished 15th, but I beat once again Zozo … with 2 seconds I’m satisfied with the orienteering part but very angry about my running part. I was so slow... Saturday it was very warm (+20), once again I couldn’t breath…
Bye
Competition data:
Strazilovo Cup Middle distance / Long distance
Time: 49.31 / 87.11
Distance: 5.7 km / 9.6
High difference: 330 m / 580 m
AVG pulse: 193 / 187
Max pulse: 184 / 173
AVG speed: 8:40 min/km / 8:54 min/km
Max speed: 2:55 min/km / 2:34 min/km
Summer season starts
Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:55:57 AM
Today I will travel to Budapest. Tomorrow I will go togheter with Laura to Serbia to the Strazilovo Cup 2009. This will be my first foot-o competition of the season
Next week I will have full program with exams
(Bye
Winter season 2008-2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:52:15 PM
I start the summary of the winter season from November. In November, December I planned some shorter-longer training camps. Unfortunately the weather was really stupid last autumn, so I had to cancel some of the camps or go to the camps and travel home after one day because of lack of snow… With all those problems I made good trainings in the end of November (some days with 50km cross country skiing).
My first competition was in Austria (13th-14th December). The Austrian Long Distance Championships and a middle distance event were held on Tauplitzalm. Both races were WRE Events. The first day wasn’t very good. The altitude (1600-1700m) made me problems. It was the first race of the year, I started a little bit too fast and got tired for the second part of the race. The second day I made a good race, finished on the 8th place.
After those competitions my problems with my left ankle started. I couldn’t ski in skating technique only double pole… All those trainings were quit good for my arms, but I lost a lot of my speed.
My New Year stared together with Laura She visited me for 3 days
The first big competition of the year, the Ski-O Tour, started on the 9th of January. The first stage, middle distance, was quit ok. I made a good race, had only some problems finding the contact with the map. I finished 40, but the time behind the top 10 was too big The second stage, also in Austria, a long distance was also good. I finished again on the 40th place.
The next two stages were in Italy. The sprint was very bad… we had to cross a river 3 times. Twice I skied around to cross on bridges, but the fastest was to cross 3 times directly through the water. I hoped for a better place than the 39th… The next day’s long distance was a really LONG distance I decided to take it easy in the first part to have energy for the last part. For the second lap I had enough energy to run together with Antoine. Finally I finished 42nd.
The last SOT stages were held in Switzerland. The sprint was my best result of the Tour (33rd). The last stage, the middle distance was a chasing competition. I started fast, catched the Italian started in front of me and also other competitors. I made an incredible race! Finally I finished on the 17th place!!! BUT unfortunately, I forgot to punch a control I passed the 9th control some 30m… My whole Ski-O Tour got lost because of these 30 m If I would have punched, I would have been on the 21st place… I’m happy, because I know I can run races like that, but was really angry to make such a stupid mistake. Running 6 days for nothing…
After the SOT I run the Swiss short distance championships. There I made a good race, finishing on the 5th place. After 7 races in 9 days I was very tired. During my stay in Switzerland I lived at Viktor (a good friend of me ). On Monday, after the SOT and Swiss Championships we went to a water park to have some fun and relax.
I drove back to Hungary, stayed one day in Sopron-Budapest, drove than to Baia Mare. I took 2 junior competitors and started the second part of the ski-o season.
On the way to Sweden we made a stop in Nove Mesto (Czech) for the Czech Sprint Championships. I started first, made the short cuts and lost a lot of time in the new snow. For me it was only training.
After 2 days of driving we arrived to Orsa Grönklitt, the venue of the JWOC and Nordic Open Championships. I won’t write many words about that week… It was terrible. I felt very tired, had to give up the long distance race… There I was team leader, driver, wax man, chef and also competitor…
From the 8th of January till the 3rd of February I drove more than 10.000 km, in 10 countries.
After some days of relaxing and training the next competitions started. First the Romanian Sprint Championships and Long distance Championships (these were also Pre-JWOC 2010 competitions). I won both races without any problems. The next weekend the Middle distance and Relay Championships were held. I won the middle and the relay together with Pepe and Mircea. 4 races 4 victories (my only victories of this winter )
One week later I started my travel to Japan. I took the bus to Budapest, slept one night there, than I flew to London – Tokyo – Sapporo. During my travel I got a little bit cold so I felt not 100% the first days in Rusutsu. I also had problems with the 7 hours time difference between Romania and Japan. The sprint race started well, but after 2/3 of the race my lungs started to hurt (place 38). The long distance was once again a bad race. To the 2nd control I had an accident, lost my ski and lost almost 5 minutes till I could continue the competition. From there on I was alone and lost more and more time. My lungs made me also problems, so I want to forget that race (44th place). After the rest day I felt much better. Unfortunately I made a small mistake so Bernd Kohlschmidt catched me. 2/3 of the race we ran together. It was my best race of the week, but still only 37th The last day was the relay day. I was alone from Romania so I ran only the first leg. During the last night it snowed a few cm, but enough for the skies to be very-very slow. Luckily not only my skies were slow, all other first leg runners had the same problems. I finished with a very good 5 min distance from the first place on the 13th position.
I trained a lot during last autumn, but unfortunately had the problems with my ankle and my lungs (in Japan). I hoped to finish in top 25 at WOC, but unfortunately I couldn’t… so I’m not really satisfied with my winter season. I won 4 gold medals at Romanian Championships, but that was only a small goal of my season.
Next year it will be quiet hard to train and to make good results. My main goal for next year is to organize good JWOC, EYOC, World Cup and WMOC. Organizing all this will take a lot of time and energy. I hope in 2 years I will be able to run into the top 20.
Now the summer season starts
Bye
My first competition was in Austria (13th-14th December). The Austrian Long Distance Championships and a middle distance event were held on Tauplitzalm. Both races were WRE Events. The first day wasn’t very good. The altitude (1600-1700m) made me problems. It was the first race of the year, I started a little bit too fast and got tired for the second part of the race. The second day I made a good race, finished on the 8th place.
After those competitions my problems with my left ankle started. I couldn’t ski in skating technique only double pole… All those trainings were quit good for my arms, but I lost a lot of my speed.
My New Year stared together with Laura
She visited me for 3 days The first big competition of the year, the Ski-O Tour, started on the 9th of January. The first stage, middle distance, was quit ok. I made a good race, had only some problems finding the contact with the map. I finished 40, but the time behind the top 10 was too big
The second stage, also in Austria, a long distance was also good. I finished again on the 40th place.The next two stages were in Italy. The sprint was very bad… we had to cross a river 3 times. Twice I skied around to cross on bridges, but the fastest was to cross 3 times directly through the water. I hoped for a better place than the 39th… The next day’s long distance was a really LONG distance
I decided to take it easy in the first part to have energy for the last part. For the second lap I had enough energy to run together with Antoine. Finally I finished 42nd.The last SOT stages were held in Switzerland. The sprint was my best result of the Tour (33rd). The last stage, the middle distance was a chasing competition. I started fast, catched the Italian started in front of me and also other competitors. I made an incredible race! Finally I finished on the 17th place!!! BUT unfortunately, I forgot to punch a control
I passed the 9th control some 30m… My whole Ski-O Tour got lost because of these 30 m If I would have punched, I would have been on the 21st place… I’m happy, because I know I can run races like that, but was really angry to make such a stupid mistake. Running 6 days for nothing…After the SOT I run the Swiss short distance championships. There I made a good race, finishing on the 5th place. After 7 races in 9 days I was very tired. During my stay in Switzerland I lived at Viktor (a good friend of me
). On Monday, after the SOT and Swiss Championships we went to a water park to have some fun and relax. I drove back to Hungary, stayed one day in Sopron-Budapest, drove than to Baia Mare. I took 2 junior competitors and started the second part of the ski-o season.
On the way to Sweden we made a stop in Nove Mesto (Czech) for the Czech Sprint Championships. I started first, made the short cuts and lost a lot of time in the new snow. For me it was only training.
After 2 days of driving we arrived to Orsa Grönklitt, the venue of the JWOC and Nordic Open Championships. I won’t write many words about that week… It was terrible. I felt very tired, had to give up the long distance race… There I was team leader, driver, wax man, chef and also competitor…
From the 8th of January till the 3rd of February I drove more than 10.000 km, in 10 countries.
After some days of relaxing and training the next competitions started. First the Romanian Sprint Championships and Long distance Championships (these were also Pre-JWOC 2010 competitions). I won both races without any problems. The next weekend the Middle distance and Relay Championships were held. I won the middle and the relay together with Pepe and Mircea. 4 races 4 victories
(my only victories of this winter )One week later I started my travel to Japan. I took the bus to Budapest, slept one night there, than I flew to London – Tokyo – Sapporo. During my travel I got a little bit cold so I felt not 100% the first days in Rusutsu. I also had problems with the 7 hours time difference between Romania and Japan.
The sprint race started well, but after 2/3 of the race my lungs started to hurt (place 38). The long distance was once again a bad race. To the 2nd control I had an accident, lost my ski and lost almost 5 minutes till I could continue the competition. From there on I was alone and lost more and more time. My lungs made me also problems, so I want to forget that race (44th place). After the rest day I felt much better. Unfortunately I made a small mistake so Bernd Kohlschmidt catched me. 2/3 of the race we ran together. It was my best race of the week, but still only 37th The last day was the relay day. I was alone from Romania so I ran only the first leg. During the last night it snowed a few cm, but enough for the skies to be very-very slow. Luckily not only my skies were slow, all other first leg runners had the same problems. I finished with a very good 5 min distance from the first place on the 13th position.I trained a lot during last autumn, but unfortunately had the problems with my ankle and my lungs (in Japan). I hoped to finish in top 25 at WOC, but unfortunately I couldn’t… so I’m not really satisfied with my winter season. I won 4 gold medals at Romanian Championships, but that was only a small goal of my season.
Next year it will be quiet hard to train and to make good results. My main goal for next year is to organize good JWOC, EYOC, World Cup and WMOC. Organizing all this will take a lot of time and energy. I hope in 2 years I will be able to run into the top 20.
Now the summer season starts
Bye
Restarting my studies (
Monday, March 16, 2009 8:46:23 PM
Today I restarted my studies after more than 3 months I’m back in Brasov, have to learn and give some exams the next weeks…
This afternoon I started preparing for the foot-o season I ran together with Dinu. It was a very-very fast training (average speed 4:03 min/km!!). Now I feel a little bit tired, but I for my goal to qualify for World Orienteering Championships this summer I will tolerate some pain
Bye
Time: 37.09
Distance: 7.9 km
High difference: 45 m
AVG pulse: 186
Max pulse: 192
AVG speed: 4:03 min/km
Max speed: 2:24 min/km
I’m back in Brasov, have to learn and give some exams the next weeks…This afternoon I started preparing for the foot-o season
I ran together with Dinu. It was a very-very fast training (average speed 4:03 min/km!!). Now I feel a little bit tired, but I for my goal to qualify for World Orienteering Championships this summer I will tolerate some pain Bye
Time: 37.09
Distance: 7.9 km
High difference: 45 m
AVG pulse: 186
Max pulse: 192
AVG speed: 4:03 min/km
Max speed: 2:24 min/km
Home, sweet home
Saturday, March 14, 2009 6:02:21 PM
Finally I have some time to write on my blog.
After a long journey I arrived home Wednesday morning. The flight was quiet ok. I had only some problems with my baggage. First in Sapporo during check in I got a sheet of paper informing me that my baggage won’t fly with the same flight like me to Tokyo Narita and will arrive a little bit later. We were too many ski orienteers, plus there were also some ski jumpers and the plane was full. The Kazakh team, Italian team got also the same information paper. When we arrived to Tokyo we got a 1000 Yen eating voucher from All Nippon Airlines, because of the late arriving of our bags After taking some breakfast (for 1000 Yen ) our baggage arrived. It was sent from Sapporo to Tokyo Haneda airport and from there driven by car to Narita airport. From Narita I was travelling alone… almost alone Hana Hancikova had also the same flight to London, but she was sitting far away from me. After a long flight and a hard landing we arrived to London. Both Hana and me (and other passengers too) felt very bad after that landing… I had around one hour in London Heathrow Terminal 5. We talked a little bit with Hana, than later on I had to go to my gate. After two hours finally I arrived to Budapest. I thought I will have problems with my bags (because of the short time in London), but was really happy when my bag came on the baggage trail first Then I waited and waited… everybody got his luggage, everybody left. My skis didn’t arrive to Budapest. I ask at the Lost Baggage desk, they told me my ski bag is still in London and will arrive next day. I gave them my address, they promised me to send my skis home to Romania in max 2 days… this afternoon they arrived… after 5 days… but I’m happy to have them here
Here are my pictures from Japan: www.karpattour.ro/kepek
Now I started the training for the summer season, but here we have again winter (after some spring days), last night and today it snowed(
I will write in some days a summary of the whole season. There is a lot to write
Bye
PS. The party wasn't really good... Next year it will be much better
After a long journey I arrived home Wednesday morning. The flight was quiet ok. I had only some problems with my baggage. First in Sapporo during check in I got a sheet of paper informing me that my baggage won’t fly with the same flight like me to Tokyo Narita and will arrive a little bit later. We were too many ski orienteers, plus there were also some ski jumpers and the plane was full. The Kazakh team, Italian team got also the same information paper. When we arrived to Tokyo we got a 1000 Yen eating voucher from All Nippon Airlines, because of the late arriving of our bags
After taking some breakfast (for 1000 Yen ) our baggage arrived. It was sent from Sapporo to Tokyo Haneda airport and from there driven by car to Narita airport. From Narita I was travelling alone… almost alone Hana Hancikova had also the same flight to London, but she was sitting far away from me. After a long flight and a hard landing we arrived to London. Both Hana and me (and other passengers too) felt very bad after that landing… I had around one hour in London Heathrow Terminal 5. We talked a little bit with Hana, than later on I had to go to my gate. After two hours finally I arrived to Budapest. I thought I will have problems with my bags (because of the short time in London), but was really happy when my bag came on the baggage trail first Then I waited and waited… everybody got his luggage, everybody left. My skis didn’t arrive to Budapest. I ask at the Lost Baggage desk, they told me my ski bag is still in London and will arrive next day. I gave them my address, they promised me to send my skis home to Romania in max 2 days… this afternoon they arrived… after 5 days… but I’m happy to have them here Here are my pictures from Japan: www.karpattour.ro/kepek
Now I started the training for the summer season, but here we have again winter (after some spring days), last night and today it snowed
( I will write in some days a summary of the whole season. There is a lot to write
Bye
PS. The party wasn't really good... Next year it will be much better
The one man relay
Sunday, March 8, 2009 6:26:57 AM
The relay. I started first leg ) (Romania had no 2nd and 3rd leg ). Already during the ski testing I felt that something it’s not ok with my skies, but I hoped they will go. On the first meters of the mass start I was quiet ok, but when we left the ski stadium everybody was passing me… I had very slow skies In the first part I tried to go with the others, with Stephan from Austria, but on the second part I was much slower than he. In the end I finished on the 13th position only 5 minutes behind the first. I’m really satisfied with today’s race. I felt much better than the other days, but unfortunately I had bad skies. But not only me skies were slow, almost everybody had slow skies. Last night it snowed a few centimeters that’s why it was so hard to ski.
Now I’m preparing for this evening’s banquet and party Tomorrow morning at 4.30 we will leave by bus to Sapporo airport. At 7.50 I have the flight to Tokyo, in the afternoon from Tokyo to London. In the evening at 21.00 I will already arrive to Budapest. Wednesday morning I'm going to arrive home.
The next post will be from home
I wish you all the best from far east!!
Bye,bye
Competition data:
Relay World Championships
Time: 46.47
Distance: 9.5 km
High difference: 260 m
AVG pulse: 190
Max pulse: 177
AVG speed: No GPS was allowed, so I have no speed data
Max speed:
) (Romania had no 2nd and 3rd leg ). Already during the ski testing I felt that something it’s not ok with my skies, but I hoped they will go. On the first meters of the mass start I was quiet ok, but when we left the ski stadium everybody was passing me… I had very slow skies In the first part I tried to go with the others, with Stephan from Austria, but on the second part I was much slower than he. In the end I finished on the 13th position only 5 minutes behind the first. I’m really satisfied with today’s race. I felt much better than the other days, but unfortunately I had bad skies. But not only me skies were slow, almost everybody had slow skies. Last night it snowed a few centimeters that’s why it was so hard to ski.Now I’m preparing for this evening’s banquet and party
Tomorrow morning at 4.30 we will leave by bus to Sapporo airport. At 7.50 I have the flight to Tokyo, in the afternoon from Tokyo to London. In the evening at 21.00 I will already arrive to Budapest. Wednesday morning I'm going to arrive home.The next post will be from home
I wish you all the best from far east!!
Bye,bye
Competition data:
Relay World Championships
Time: 46.47
Distance: 9.5 km
High difference: 260 m
AVG pulse: 190
Max pulse: 177
AVG speed: No GPS was allowed, so I have no speed data
Max speed:
Japan, middle distance
Saturday, March 7, 2009 6:24:32 AM
It’s time to write some words about today’s middle distance world ski-o championships.
I will start my report with some information about yesterday’s weather: the whole afternoon an evening it rained!! So we knew if it won’t snow and it will freeze during the night it will be quiet dangerous today. In the morning the weather was much better than in the evening, but still terrible. It snowed and the wind was blowing very-very strong (if some of you have been last winter in Bulgaria, you remember the middle distance’s weather…). I was afraid of having problems with my breathing again, so I decided to start a little bit slower. To our 1st and 2nd control we had to ski down the downhill where we climbed up 3 times during the long distance. Almost the whole competition was more x-country skiing than orienteering. We had to follow only the tracks made by the competitors starting in front of us. The other tracks were covered by snow so we had an easy job, but I still made a 30 s mistake Because of my slow starting speed and the mistake, Bernd Kohlschmidt (he started 2 min behind me) catched me. To the next controls we took different routes ( I think every time mine was a little bit faster than his ) In the end we had to climb up to the finish area. It was so hard… 130 high meters climbing non-stop. Bernd was behind me but only a few meters. On the top of the hill the wind started to blow once again… The 3 last controls I took some meters in front of Bernd and after a fast finish I crossed the finish line in front of him… but he was still 2 minutes better than me… Finally I finished on the 37th place… Of course I’m not satisfied, but I did my best…
Yesterday we had a sightseeing tour in Sapporo. First we drove to the Ski Jumping Arena. There we visited the Olympic Museum We paid a lot of money for the excursion so we thought that the organizers paid our entrance to the museum, but there was nothing paid… we had to paid 540 Yen for the entry… Later on the bus drove us down to the city center. There we had 3.5 hours of free sightseeing. I joined the Austrian (3 persons) and German (one of the 2 Germans was there) teams for the walk around the town. First we visited the old governors’ house, than the TV Tower, later on the Clock Tower and finally we had a snack and went back to the bus. It was interesting; the only problem was the weather… it rained the whole sightseeing
Now I’m still here in Rusutsu (I planned to leave this afternoon to Sapporo, but my plans changed), I’m relaxing a little bit. Later on I will go to wax my skis for tomorrow’s relay. I decided to run the relay. I hoped the organizers will give me a cheaper entry fee if I won’t run, but I had to pay the whole sum, so I decided to run. I will be the first leg (of course) ) and there won’t be any 2nd or 3rd legs of the Romanian team.
Bye
Competition data:
Middle distance World Championships
Time: 47.48
Distance: 12.5 km
High difference:260 m
AVG pulse: 192
Max pulse: 176
AVG speed: No GPS was allowed, so I have no speed data
Max speed:
I will start my report with some information about yesterday’s weather: the whole afternoon an evening it rained!! So we knew if it won’t snow and it will freeze during the night it will be quiet dangerous today. In the morning the weather was much better than in the evening, but still terrible. It snowed and the wind was blowing very-very strong (if some of you have been last winter in Bulgaria, you remember the middle distance’s weather…). I was afraid of having problems with my breathing again, so I decided to start a little bit slower. To our 1st and 2nd control we had to ski down the downhill where we climbed up 3 times during the long distance. Almost the whole competition was more x-country skiing than orienteering. We had to follow only the tracks made by the competitors starting in front of us. The other tracks were covered by snow so we had an easy job, but I still made a 30 s mistake
Because of my slow starting speed and the mistake, Bernd Kohlschmidt (he started 2 min behind me) catched me. To the next controls we took different routes ( I think every time mine was a little bit faster than his ) In the end we had to climb up to the finish area. It was so hard… 130 high meters climbing non-stop. Bernd was behind me but only a few meters. On the top of the hill the wind started to blow once again… The 3 last controls I took some meters in front of Bernd and after a fast finish I crossed the finish line in front of him… but he was still 2 minutes better than me… Finally I finished on the 37th place… Of course I’m not satisfied, but I did my best…Yesterday we had a sightseeing tour in Sapporo. First we drove to the Ski Jumping Arena. There we visited the Olympic Museum
We paid a lot of money for the excursion so we thought that the organizers paid our entrance to the museum, but there was nothing paid… we had to paid 540 Yen for the entry… Later on the bus drove us down to the city center. There we had 3.5 hours of free sightseeing. I joined the Austrian (3 persons) and German (one of the 2 Germans was there) teams for the walk around the town. First we visited the old governors’ house, than the TV Tower, later on the Clock Tower and finally we had a snack and went back to the bus. It was interesting; the only problem was the weather… it rained the whole sightseeing Now I’m still here in Rusutsu (I planned to leave this afternoon to Sapporo, but my plans changed), I’m relaxing a little bit. Later on I will go to wax my skis for tomorrow’s relay. I decided to run the relay. I hoped the organizers will give me a cheaper entry fee if I won’t run, but I had to pay the whole sum, so I decided to run. I will be the first leg (of course
) ) and there won’t be any 2nd or 3rd legs of the Romanian team. Bye
Competition data:
Middle distance World Championships
Time: 47.48
Distance: 12.5 km
High difference:260 m
AVG pulse: 192
Max pulse: 176
AVG speed: No GPS was allowed, so I have no speed data
Max speed:
Long distance....
Thursday, March 5, 2009 6:51:57 AM
The long distance is over… I don’t know what to say… yesterday I wrote that I’m totally disappointed. Is there any word stronger than “totally”? That could describe my feelings now…
First of all I hate mass start competitions. You start and you can’t go your speed, you have to go with the others, so you try to push harder and harder and you forget that you have still 25 km left till the finish… After the first control I had a big crash… my right binding opened and my ski decided to get into the valley faster than me (but not on the ski track…). I had to go down for my ski and then try to get up to the track again… now I know how it is to climb up a mountain without any help and tracks in more than 1 m snow… With this incident I lost around 5 minutes so all the competitors were already far away. On the first lap I catched one US competitor and saw the Italian guy in front of me, but he was already on the top of the final climbing (you can see it in the picture) and I was still down (around 100 m of high difference…). The second lap started with a… big uphill… once again more than 100 m up, taking one control and then skiing down 200 m!!!! On the final climbing of the second lap (once again the same climb like the first lap) I was in front of the Italian guy, I changed the map before him, but he was lucky and had the shortest forking on the last lap, so finally he finished in front of me (like 42 other competitors…).
My biggest problem during the whole race was the air… I couldn’t breathe… If I tried to push a little bit, after few seconds I felt that I suffocate... I really don’t know what the problem is… I heard from two swiss guy to have the same problem, but not so bad. I asked some others about their opinion and they said that the air humidity is very low, that’s why this happens. Why only to 3 competitors of 100???
Now I feel really pissed off… It was a bad idea to travel here to Japan. I think the financial problems the week before I travelled here were a sign to stay home… I spent a lot of money and make such races…
Tomorrow we have a rest day. We will go down to Sapporo and visit the ski jumping stadium and the sports museum. I hope it will be more interesting than these competitions…
What result should I wait for Saturday?? Not to die somewhere in the forest trying to get some oxygen??
Bye
Competition data:
Long distance World Championships
Time: 128.56
Distance: 25.5 km
High difference:800 m
AVG pulse: 202
Max pulse: 175
AVG speed: No GPS was allowed, so I have no speed data
Max speed:
First of all I hate mass start competitions. You start and you can’t go your speed, you have to go with the others, so you try to push harder and harder and you forget that you have still 25 km left till the finish… After the first control I had a big crash… my right binding opened and my ski decided to get into the valley faster than me (but not on the ski track…). I had to go down for my ski and then try to get up to the track again… now I know how it is to climb up a mountain without any help and tracks in more than 1 m snow… With this incident I lost around 5 minutes so all the competitors were already far away. On the first lap I catched one US competitor and saw the Italian guy in front of me, but he was already on the top of the final climbing (you can see it in the picture) and I was still down (around 100 m of high difference…). The second lap started with a… big uphill… once again more than 100 m up, taking one control and then skiing down 200 m!!!! On the final climbing of the second lap (once again the same climb like the first lap) I was in front of the Italian guy, I changed the map before him, but he was lucky and had the shortest forking on the last lap, so finally he finished in front of me (like 42 other competitors…).
My biggest problem during the whole race was the air… I couldn’t breathe… If I tried to push a little bit, after few seconds I felt that I suffocate... I really don’t know what the problem is… I heard from two swiss guy to have the same problem, but not so bad. I asked some others about their opinion and they said that the air humidity is very low, that’s why this happens. Why only to 3 competitors of 100???
Now I feel really pissed off… It was a bad idea to travel here to Japan. I think the financial problems the week before I travelled here were a sign to stay home… I spent a lot of money and make such races…
Tomorrow we have a rest day. We will go down to Sapporo and visit the ski jumping stadium and the sports museum. I hope it will be more interesting than these competitions…
What result should I wait for Saturday?? Not to die somewhere in the forest trying to get some oxygen??
Bye
Competition data:
Long distance World Championships
Time: 128.56
Distance: 25.5 km
High difference:800 m
AVG pulse: 202
Max pulse: 175
AVG speed: No GPS was allowed, so I have no speed data
Max speed:
World Championships Sprint
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 5:15:17 AM
I’m totally disappointed... I trained for today’s competition the whole year and now I’m only on the 38th place. On the way here to Japan I got a little bit ill. I made no mistakes...Physically the first part of the race was ok, but on the second part my lungs started to hurt because of the illness...so I couldn’t give all I had on the last part. To the 4th control I catched the Italian guy starting in front of me, but after 2 controls I couldn’t ski with him...It was so bad... I’m really-really angry.
Yesterday I forgot to write about my goals for this WOC, but if I write them after this race everybody will think I’m crazy... My goal for today was a top 20 place... Now I have to change a bit my goals and I hope for one top 30 place during this week...
Once again I’m alone from Romania here. It’s so bad to have nobody here... I would be really happy to have somebody here to give me some energy for tomorrow...
Bye
Competition data:
Sprint World Championships
Time: 13.52
Distance: 4.5 km
High difference:65 m
AVG pulse: 187
Max pulse: 193
AVG speed: No GPS was allowed, so I have no speed data
Max speed:
Yesterday I forgot to write about my goals for this WOC, but if I write them after this race everybody will think I’m crazy... My goal for today was a top 20 place... Now I have to change a bit my goals and I hope for one top 30 place during this week...
Once again I’m alone from Romania here. It’s so bad to have nobody here... I would be really happy to have somebody here to give me some energy for tomorrow...
Bye
Competition data:
Sprint World Championships
Time: 13.52
Distance: 4.5 km
High difference:65 m
AVG pulse: 187
Max pulse: 193
AVG speed: No GPS was allowed, so I have no speed data
Max speed:
Japan, day 1 (after model event)
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 4:05:46 AM
The model event is over, so I write a few words about the terrain and the tracks. There’s a lot of snow
They say there’s almost 3m of snow. For us it’s the same if there is 30 cm of frozen snow plus 20 cm of new snow of 3m snow plus 20 cm of new snow. We feel only the new snow. The terrain is hilly, there are some steep up hills and small river crossings where you can break your skies The tracks are narrow and soft, so we will have a really hard week… For those who know something about skies: I tested my skies and the 2 Fischer plus skies are gliding much better than the 2 Fischer Cold skies
Bye
Japan, day 1 (before model event)
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 1:03:20 AM
Now I have some time to write about the accommodation and other things here.
I never lived in such a luxurious hotel like this… I really like it, my room is big (I live alone in a 2 bed room) everything is very good, the only problem is with the price: 8400 Yen (around 80 Euro/night). I would like to live in some simple hotel or hostel and pay 20-30 Euro/night, not 80… But here in Rusutsu they have nothing cheaper…
An other thing that makes me very angry is the attitude of the organizers regarding the entry fee. They are very kind, helpful but they are really unfair with the entry fee. I won’t run the relay, but have to pay the same entry like the other who run relay too. The whole entry is incredible huge: 38000 Yen, more than 330 Euro!!!! (Others have bigger problems. Some competitors run only 1 race, in teams where there are more than 4 competitors, and they also have to pay 330 Euro. 330 Euro for 1 race!!!!! Crazy, really crazy…
Here in the hotel we can choose from 4 different restaurants (Japanese, Western, “Oktober Fest” and one more). I took the “Oktober Fest” both yesterday dinner and breakfast today. It was buffet, so I could eat what I want and as many I want There was all kind of food from fish to pork, rice to potatoes and everything.
After dinner I went to sleep. I slept very good, woke up 4 minutes before my clock was ringing I feel I have no problems with the time difference, but we will see how I will feel during competitions…
Now I’m going out to the model event and will try my skis. In the afternoon we have the opening ceremony later on some official meeting with invited people and in the evening from 19.00 the team leaders meeting.
Bye
I never lived in such a luxurious hotel like this… I really like it, my room is big (I live alone in a 2 bed room) everything is very good, the only problem is with the price: 8400 Yen (around 80 Euro/night). I would like to live in some simple hotel or hostel and pay 20-30 Euro/night, not 80… But here in Rusutsu they have nothing cheaper…
An other thing that makes me very angry is the attitude of the organizers regarding the entry fee. They are very kind, helpful but they are really unfair with the entry fee. I won’t run the relay, but have to pay the same entry like the other who run relay too. The whole entry is incredible huge: 38000 Yen, more than 330 Euro!!!! (Others have bigger problems. Some competitors run only 1 race, in teams where there are more than 4 competitors, and they also have to pay 330 Euro. 330 Euro for 1 race!!!!! Crazy, really crazy…
Here in the hotel we can choose from 4 different restaurants (Japanese, Western, “Oktober Fest” and one more). I took the “Oktober Fest” both yesterday dinner and breakfast today. It was buffet, so I could eat what I want and as many I want
There was all kind of food from fish to pork, rice to potatoes and everything. After dinner I went to sleep. I slept very good, woke up 4 minutes before my clock was ringing
I feel I have no problems with the time difference, but we will see how I will feel during competitions…Now I’m going out to the model event and will try my skis. In the afternoon we have the opening ceremony later on some official meeting with invited people and in the evening from 19.00 the team leaders meeting.
Bye
Arrived in Rusutsu
Monday, March 2, 2009 9:37:44 AM
I arrived well to Rusutsu
Now I'm going to take dinner and than going to sleep. I will write more tomorrow. Bye
Tokio airport
Monday, March 2, 2009 1:13:21 AM
I just arrived at Tokio-Narita Airport. After a 2 hours flight from Budapest to London, spending some hours at London Heathrow Terminal 5 (it's incredible how big that airport is) and a 12 hours flight from London to Tokio I'm now here in the japanese capital (not the city, only the airport
). The long flight was really good, I slept around 7 hours without waking up From here I wil fly in some minutes to Sapporo, take the bus and finally arrive to Rusutsu in the afternoon (japanese time
, now here it's 10.15 )Bye
The travel starts
Friday, February 27, 2009 12:05:09 PM
Today my big travel starts
This evening I will take the bus to Budapest. I will arrive there tomorrow morning. Then we will go together with Laura to a foot-o competition. She will run, I will be only a spectator I’m afraid of some accident’s that’s why I won’t run Sunday morning I will fly from Budapest to London Heathrow –Terminal 5. Hopefully my bags won’t get lost there
From London I will have a 12 hours journey to Tokyo Narita airport and finally one more 2 hours flight till Sapporo Chitoce. The swiss boys wrote some interesting things on their blog (http://ski-o.blogspot.com/ - only if you understand German). I’m waiting for the next week
I hope I will have possibilities to write on my blog if not here you can find results: http://www.orienteering.or.jp/swoc2009/
Bye
Final countdown: 3 days left
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 4:15:11 PM
These days I try to get used with the Japanese time. Yesterday and today I woke up at 6.30 and drove up to Harghita Bai. After last week’s problems (tired, unmotivated) now I feel very good
Last week I made one fast lap in almost 2 minutes, today my best time was 1.28 I’m in a good shape, hopefully my results will show also the same thing Now I’m going to sleep
In Japan it’s already 1 am Bye
Today's training:
Time: 72.06
Distance:15.5 km
High difference:240 m
AVG pulse: 145
Max pulse: 186
AVG speed: 4:15 min/km
Max speed: 1:41 min/km
4 of 4
Monday, February 23, 2009 11:16:38 AM
We won yesterday the relay
Pepe started first leg, came in with 2 min advantage, Mircea was second leg, arriving with 10 min advantage (the second place changed during the race). After these first two legs I had absolutely no problem. I took it really easy, took care of my health any my equipment in focus of the World Championships next week. Finally we finished 14 minutes in front of the second placed CSU Craiova team. Although I took it easy I made the best time of the competition almost 5 min faster than the second placed Brabiescu Paul. Thanks to my teammates for this victory 
Now the countdown for Japan starts
I will leave home already on Friday afternoon, travelling to Budapest. On Sunday morning I will fly to London from there to Tokyo and finally Sapporo.Bye
Competition data:
Relay Championships
Time: 51.46
Distance:9.5 km
High difference:255 m
AVG pulse: 178
Max pulse: 190
AVG speed: 4:34 min/km
Max speed: 1:32 min/km
Middle gold
Saturday, February 21, 2009 3:24:32 PM
One more gold medal 3 of 3 individual gold medals It's the third time I managed this afert 2006 and 2007
It was a very hard competition… but not only hard it was bad too. One of the worst competition of the last 5 years There were almost no skating tracks… and a course setter made also a big sh*t (there were parts where taking down the skies and running through the forest was faster the skiing on the tracks )
I’m happy for my victory, but I’m not happy to have ski-o competitions like this was
Now, I’m going to sleep I’m preparing for the World Championships in Japan, I have to get used with the Japanese time. That means sleeping from 15.oo till 1.00 … It will be hard, but I will try
Bye
Competition data:
Middle distance Championships
Time: 40.59
Distance: 8.9 km
High difference:174 m
AVG pulse: 183
Max pulse: 192
AVG speed: 4:04 min/km
Max speed: 1:35 min/km
3 of 3 individual gold medals It's the third time I managed this afert 2006 and 2007 It was a very hard competition… but not only hard it was bad too. One of the worst competition of the last 5 years
There were almost no skating tracks… and a course setter made also a big sh*t (there were parts where taking down the skies and running through the forest was faster the skiing on the tracks )I’m happy for my victory, but I’m not happy to have ski-o competitions like this was
Now, I’m going to sleep
I’m preparing for the World Championships in Japan, I have to get used with the Japanese time. That means sleeping from 15.oo till 1.00 … It will be hard, but I will try Bye
Competition data:
Middle distance Championships
Time: 40.59
Distance: 8.9 km
High difference:174 m
AVG pulse: 183
Max pulse: 192
AVG speed: 4:04 min/km
Max speed: 1:35 min/km
Tomorrow middle distance championships
Friday, February 20, 2009 6:33:38 PM
Today I was in Bucharest to give my documents for the Japanese Visa. On Tuesday or Wednesday hopefully I will have the Visa
Tomorrow we will have the middle distance national championships. I’m prepared for one more gold medal
Bye
Tomorrow we will have the middle distance national championships. I’m prepared for one more gold medal
Bye
Data from Romanian Sprint and Long distance Championships
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:28:01 PM
Sprint Championships
Time: 13.09
Distance: 3.4 km
High difference: 91 m
AVG pulse: 180
Max pulse: 184
AVG speed: 3:55 min/km
Max speed: 1:29 min/km
Long distance Championships
Time: 64.19
Distance: 15.6 km
High difference: 400 m
AVG pulse: 180
Max pulse: 190
AVG speed: 4:09 min/km
Max speed: 1:12 min/km
Time: 13.09
Distance: 3.4 km
High difference: 91 m
AVG pulse: 180
Max pulse: 184
AVG speed: 3:55 min/km
Max speed: 1:29 min/km
Long distance Championships
Time: 64.19
Distance: 15.6 km
High difference: 400 m
AVG pulse: 180
Max pulse: 190
AVG speed: 4:09 min/km
Max speed: 1:12 min/km
Romanian Championships summary
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:17:08 PM
Now I have some time to write a summary of our National Championships.
The National Championships weekend started already on Thursday evening. Our Hungarian friends (Janko Tamas and his girlfriend, Bertoti Regina, Kiacz Bence and Orsi) arrived Thursday late evening. Laura came also together with Bence With all this friends here, it seemed to be a good weekend
The whole night from Thursday to Friday it snowed here, so we decided to drive up to Harghita Bai on Friday afternoon. We made a short skiing, more fun than training Shot some pictures and came home.
Saturday morning we drove to Bucin (the competitions were moved there, because of lack of snow). We had the sprint race My biggest opponent was Suciu Simion. He started 1 min in front of me. On the way to the second control he made a mistake, so I almost catched him. After some control I passed him and made my own race, finishing with more than 2 min advantage on the first place. This was my 6th sprint Champion title since 2003 (the 4th in a row) I was satisfied with my race. Despite the soft tracks I had a good speed and made no mistakes.
Sprint map
The others had also good races. Bence finished 8th in the ME race, Tamas won the M40 race and Laura finished the race (it was her first ski-o competition).
In the evening Uwe made us some homemade pizza’s We were all here and had a good evening. and
Sunday morning we drove up once again to Bucin for the long distance race. It was a very-very tough race: long, a lot of uphill and still soft tracks. I started good, after some controls I catched up Stupu Petru (one of my biggest opponents). He tried to come with me, but after 3-4 controls I left him behind. The whole race I catched up competitors, so I thought it would be the 1st place
When I arrived to the finish, I was almost dead… It was one of the hardest race this winter, but I’m happy for one more victory. After last year’s silver medal I managed to regain the gold medal It was my 15th ME Champion title (12th individual ) Hopefully this weekend I will raise the number with 2 more gold medals
Long distance map
Unfortunately Laura lost her SI card during the race If somebody will found it please write me
The whole Monday we relaxed together with Laura But in the afternoon she left home to Budapest…
Both races were also WRE competitions According to some World Ranking rules (I don't know exactly the rules) I got for both victories 1000 points After this weekend I'm on the 68th place
Yesterday afternoon I made a one hour skiing, but felt tired… Today I tried to make some fast skiing, but felt also very tired, so I had to cancel my fast training… I hope I will fell once again ok for the middle distance race and the relay on Saturday, Sunday
Bye
The National Championships weekend started already on Thursday evening. Our Hungarian friends (Janko Tamas and his girlfriend, Bertoti Regina, Kiacz Bence and Orsi) arrived Thursday late evening. Laura came also together with Bence
With all this friends here, it seemed to be a good weekend The whole night from Thursday to Friday it snowed here, so we decided to drive up to Harghita Bai on Friday afternoon. We made a short skiing, more fun than training
Shot some pictures and came home.Saturday morning we drove to Bucin (the competitions were moved there, because of lack of snow). We had the sprint race
My biggest opponent was Suciu Simion. He started 1 min in front of me. On the way to the second control he made a mistake, so I almost catched him. After some control I passed him and made my own race, finishing with more than 2 min advantage on the first place. This was my 6th sprint Champion title since 2003 (the 4th in a row) I was satisfied with my race. Despite the soft tracks I had a good speed and made no mistakes. Sprint map
The others had also good races. Bence finished 8th in the ME race, Tamas won the M40 race and Laura finished the race
(it was her first ski-o competition).In the evening Uwe made us some homemade pizza’s
We were all here and had a good evening. and Sunday morning we drove up once again to Bucin for the long distance race. It was a very-very tough race: long, a lot of uphill and still soft tracks. I started good, after some controls I catched up Stupu Petru (one of my biggest opponents). He tried to come with me, but after 3-4 controls I left him behind. The whole race I catched up competitors, so I thought it would be the 1st place
When I arrived to the finish, I was almost dead… It was one of the hardest race this winter, but I’m happy for one more victory. After last year’s silver medal I managed to regain the gold medal
It was my 15th ME Champion title (12th individual ) Hopefully this weekend I will raise the number with 2 more gold medals Long distance map
Unfortunately Laura lost her SI card during the race
If somebody will found it please write me The whole Monday we relaxed together with Laura
But in the afternoon she left home to Budapest…Both races were also WRE competitions
According to some World Ranking rules (I don't know exactly the rules) I got for both victories 1000 points After this weekend I'm on the 68th place Yesterday afternoon I made a one hour skiing, but felt tired… Today I tried to make some fast skiing, but felt also very tired, so I had to cancel my fast training… I hope I will fell once again ok for the middle distance race and the relay on Saturday, Sunday
Bye
2 races 2 victories
Monday, February 16, 2009 8:36:39 PM
Yes, I had a really good weekend
I won both the Sprint Championships and the Long distance Championships too. I will write the summary of the competitions tomorrow evening.Bye
Preparing for National Championships
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:10:41 PM
I'm preparing for our National Championships, but unfortunately we have no snow around my town, so I can only run
I'm a little bit demotivated, but hopefully will get back in good shape for the weekend...Bye
Exactly one year
Sunday, February 8, 2009 7:56:26 PM
We have exactly one year till the JWOC and EYOC (and possibly World Cup and WMOC). The countdown starts
Bye
Driving home from Sweden and first days home
Saturday, February 7, 2009 9:16:41 PM
First of all sorry for not writing this week. I had no time
Let’s start with last Saturday’s relay from Sweden. I made a team with the two youth competitors. Running the first leg I was satisfied. I finished in front of the Bulgarian team (Ilian Tonchev), the Latvian team (Edgars Sparans) and a Swedish Club team. That was my best race of the whole NOC week.
In the evening we had the banquet and the party I made a short speech about next year’s JWOC (you know I’m one of the main organizers of the Ski-O JWOC, EYOC 2010 ). After the good party we slept a few hours and Sunday morning our trip home started
Sunday I drove down till Ystad. There we took the ferry. The night on the ferry boat was terrible. The sea was full of waves. I had no problems, but the boys felt really bad… Monday morning we arrived to Poland. I planned to drive without sleeping from Poland till Romania, but I felt so tired that I decided to sleep one night in Hungary, in Sopron at Laura’s place Tuesday morning we continued our way home. After some hundreds of km’s I arrived home at 3am Wednesday.
During the last almost 4 weeks I drove 10170 km , travelling through 9 countries, running 12 competitions (totally 148,5 km, 10 hours 56 min).
After all this I was very tired . On Wednesday and Thursday I tried to relax.
Yesterday I had to go to Bucharest. I had to go to the National Sport Medicine Institute for some tests. I made all the tests, some 13 doctors checked me Everything is ok, I only shall do more training for my pectoral and abdominal muscles.
After yesterday’s trip I was also tired…
Today was my first day without any program I slept a lot, relaxed the whole day In the evening I went out for a short run. Unfortunately there is no snow neither here in town, nor at Harghita Bai…
Next weekend’s national championship were moved from our region some 50 km to the north, because of lack of snow.
Bye
Let’s start with last Saturday’s relay from Sweden. I made a team with the two youth competitors. Running the first leg I was satisfied.
I finished in front of the Bulgarian team (Ilian Tonchev), the Latvian team (Edgars Sparans) and a Swedish Club team. That was my best race of the whole NOC week. In the evening we had the banquet and the party
I made a short speech about next year’s JWOC (you know I’m one of the main organizers of the Ski-O JWOC, EYOC 2010 ). After the good party we slept a few hours and Sunday morning our trip home started Sunday I drove down till Ystad. There we took the ferry. The night on the ferry boat was terrible. The sea was full of waves. I had no problems, but the boys felt really bad… Monday morning we arrived to Poland. I planned to drive without sleeping from Poland till Romania, but I felt so tired that I decided to sleep one night in Hungary, in Sopron at Laura’s place
Tuesday morning we continued our way home. After some hundreds of km’s I arrived home at 3am Wednesday. During the last almost 4 weeks I drove 10170 km
, travelling through 9 countries, running 12 competitions (totally 148,5 km, 10 hours 56 min).After all this I was very tired
. On Wednesday and Thursday I tried to relax. Yesterday I had to go to Bucharest. I had to go to the National Sport Medicine Institute for some tests. I made all the tests, some 13 doctors checked me
Everything is ok, I only shall do more training for my pectoral and abdominal muscles.After yesterday’s trip I was also tired…
Today was my first day without any program
I slept a lot, relaxed the whole day In the evening I went out for a short run. Unfortunately there is no snow neither here in town, nor at Harghita Bai… Next weekend’s national championship were moved from our region some 50 km to the north, because of lack of snow.
Bye
Middle distance
Friday, January 30, 2009 10:16:24 PM
After yesterday’s rest day, today I felt much better. The only problem was the length of today’s middle distance (18km) and the temperature (-13°C). I started with a good speed, felt good the whole first lap. Watching the intermediate times, I think I took some bad routes, but we will see tomorrow when I get the map. I got a little bit angry when Ilian Tonchev (Bul) catched me on the second lap, but I tried to hold my speed.
Finally I finished on the 42nd position. It’s not a good place, but I’m happy that this race is also over. After the competition once again I felt a little bit bad, it was hard to drive home, but after some sleep in the afternoon, now everything is ok
Tomorrow I will make a relay with the two boys from the EYOC. I will run first leg. Hopefully the guys will finish till it get’s dark…
Bye
Finally I finished on the 42nd position. It’s not a good place, but I’m happy that this race is also over. After the competition once again I felt a little bit bad, it was hard to drive home, but after some sleep in the afternoon, now everything is ok
Tomorrow I will make a relay with the two boys from the EYOC. I will run first leg. Hopefully the guys will finish till it get’s dark…
Bye
Long distance (
Friday, January 30, 2009 10:08:15 PM
This was my worst day of my whole ski orienteering career. I felt bad from the start on. My skies were slow and everybody passed me like a small child who learns now ski orienteering.
After one and a half lap (of 3 laps) I felt worse and worse. I had stomach ache, head ache, so I decided to give up…
During the afternoon I still felt bad, without energy… Watching the intermediate times it was a good decision to give up. After the first lap I was on the last place with a big gap to the others
All the competitions and the travel from the last 3 weeks placed a mark on my strength… I’m really tired and I’m waiting for next Tuesday, when I will arrive home
It’s the first time I give up a ski-o competition
hopefully it was the last time!!!Bye
Sprint
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:50:13 PM
I had a bad sprint race today… Bad route choices, slow on the tracks and finally trying to cross a small water-course on a shortcut, I fell into the water.
No more comments on this day. Tomorrow we will have the long distance race. Hopefully it will be much better
Bye
No more comments on this day. Tomorrow we will have the long distance race. Hopefully it will be much better
Bye
Arriving to Sweden
Sunday, January 25, 2009 6:14:39 PM
After driving yesterday evening till Swinouwce (Poland), taking from there the ferry boat till Ystad (Sweden) and driving almost 800km trough Sweden we arrived to Orsa Grönklitt.
The JWOC and NOC will start tomorrow with the model event.
When I will have time I will write more.
Bye
Czech Sprint Championships
Saturday, January 24, 2009 9:50:03 AM
The competition is over. I don't know my result yet, because we leaved from the competition area after we finished. Now we took a shower and will start the next part of the trip to Sweden.
Bye
Driving to Nove Mesto
Friday, January 23, 2009 8:30:57 PM
Today we drove from Baia Mare to Nove Mesto na Morave. Tomorrow we will run the Sprint Czech Championships in the morning, and later we will continue our drive to Sweden.
The last part of the drive was terrible... Such a snowfall, I have never seen during drive...
Bye
The last part of the drive was terrible... Such a snowfall, I have never seen during drive...
Bye
Swiss Championships and driving back to Romania
Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:48:13 PM
After the Ski-O Tour, on Sunday I also ran the Swiss Short distance Ski-O Championships. Those where held also in the same area the SOT was held. I was very tired, but run, because it was also a WRE Event. I felt tired the whole race and was happy when I crossed the finish line. My result wasn’t as good as I hoped… I finished 5th behind Gion Schnyder (he took his first Champion title, congratulations), Christian Hohl, Antoine Vullioud and Boris Fischer. I hope for a place on the podium, but my batteries were empty… It was a good race for the OLG Zürich We took the 1st and 5th place in ME and 2nd in M20 (Tobias Lutz).
During my time in Switzerland I lived at Viktor in Zollikon. He is a good friend of me Last Spring I lived also there during my studies in Zürich. On Monday we went to a water park (www.alpamare.ch – the biggest covered water park in Europe) to have some fun and to relax a little bit in the wellness part In the evening we went to the training of my swiss club, the OLG Zürich.
Tuesday morning I left Zürich, drove in big snowfall and rain till Sopron. After one night there, yesterday we drove (together with Laura) to Budapest. Today I came to Baia Mare. The Ski-O Tour is now finally over. I drove around 4500 km around Europe. Tomorrow we will start our trip to Sweden.
I will write when I will have possibilities.
Bye
Data from Swiss Championships:
Time: 26.35
Distance: 5.7 km
High difference: 145 m
AVG pulse: 181
Max pulse: 193
AVG speed: 4:10 min/km
Max speed: 1:27 min/km
We took the 1st and 5th place in ME and 2nd in M20 (Tobias Lutz).During my time in Switzerland I lived at Viktor in Zollikon. He is a good friend of me
Last Spring I lived also there during my studies in Zürich. On Monday we went to a water park (www.alpamare.ch – the biggest covered water park in Europe) to have some fun and to relax a little bit in the wellness part In the evening we went to the training of my swiss club, the OLG Zürich.Tuesday morning I left Zürich, drove in big snowfall and rain till Sopron. After one night there, yesterday we drove (together with Laura) to Budapest. Today I came to Baia Mare. The Ski-O Tour is now finally over. I drove around 4500 km around Europe. Tomorrow we will start our trip to Sweden.
I will write when I will have possibilities.
Bye
Data from Swiss Championships:
Time: 26.35
Distance: 5.7 km
High difference: 145 m
AVG pulse: 181
Max pulse: 193
AVG speed: 4:10 min/km
Max speed: 1:27 min/km
Data from stage 5&6
Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:30:33 PM
Stage 5 - Sprint - Switzerland
Time: 21.32
Distance: 4.2 km
High difference: 105 m
AVG pulse: 188
Max pulse: 196
AVG speed: 4:30 min/km
Max speed: 1:20 min/km
Stage 6 - Middle distance - Switzerland
Time: 42.05
Distance: 9.6 km
High difference: 210 m
AVG pulse: 183
Max pulse: 193
AVG speed: 4:04 min/km
Max speed: 1:31 min/km
Time: 21.32
Distance: 4.2 km
High difference: 105 m
AVG pulse: 188
Max pulse: 196
AVG speed: 4:30 min/km
Max speed: 1:20 min/km
Stage 6 - Middle distance - Switzerland
Time: 42.05
Distance: 9.6 km
High difference: 210 m
AVG pulse: 183
Max pulse: 193
AVG speed: 4:04 min/km
Max speed: 1:31 min/km
Ski-O Tour stage 5&6
Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:25:44 PM
Ski-O Tour Stage 5 - Sprint
After the bad sprint in Italy I hoped for a good result in here in Switzerland. I started very well. I already knew the way to the first 3 controls, because it was a semi open area and I could watch the competitors starting in front of me. But from the 3rd till the middle part of the competition I had problems getting the contact to the map… On the last part I was already tired, but I managed to finish in a high tempo. My final result was 33rd. The place is not bad, but the time gap was big. I really don’t know where they gave me so much… The positive part of the day was the 2nd place on one intermediate time
Ski-O Tour Stage 6 - Middle distance
This was the last stage of the SOT. It was a chasing start competition. I started very well, cached the Italian guy started in front of me and saw Ilian Tonchev also few meters ahead. The map was small and full of controls. After some controls I finally catched Ilian and a Russian guy also. I was really tired, but happy when I finished But my happiness was only for a few minutes… I read out my SI… Missing control… I haven’t seen control nr. 9 on my map… On the way to 10 I was only some 30 m from 9 but, I haven’t seen it on the map… This was the end of the Ski-O Tour. If I would have punched that control I would have finished in the final ranking of the SOT on the 21st place, the last race on the 17th place… With this big mistake I lost 1050 WRE points (it would have been my best ever score…)
Bye
After the bad sprint in Italy I hoped for a good result in here in Switzerland. I started very well. I already knew the way to the first 3 controls, because it was a semi open area and I could watch the competitors starting in front of me. But from the 3rd till the middle part of the competition I had problems getting the contact to the map… On the last part I was already tired, but I managed to finish in a high tempo. My final result was 33rd. The place is not bad, but the time gap was big. I really don’t know where they gave me so much… The positive part of the day was the 2nd place on one intermediate time
Ski-O Tour Stage 6 - Middle distance
This was the last stage of the SOT. It was a chasing start competition. I started very well, cached the Italian guy started in front of me and saw Ilian Tonchev also few meters ahead. The map was small and full of controls. After some controls I finally catched Ilian and a Russian guy also. I was really tired, but happy when I finished
But my happiness was only for a few minutes… I read out my SI… Missing control… I haven’t seen control nr. 9 on my map… On the way to 10 I was only some 30 m from 9 but, I haven’t seen it on the map… This was the end of the Ski-O Tour. If I would have punched that control I would have finished in the final ranking of the SOT on the 21st place, the last race on the 17th place… With this big mistake I lost 1050 WRE points (it would have been my best ever score…)Bye
Sprint
Friday, January 16, 2009 8:19:17 PM
Today I finished 33rd. I'm satisfied with the place but not with my time
I will write later a summary.
Bye
Data from stage 1 to 4
Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:23:15 PM
Here are some data from the first 4 stages of the Ski-O Tour:
Stage 1 - Middle distance - Austria
Time: 52.31
Distance: 11.7 km
High difference: 345 m
AVG pulse: 187
Max pulse: 196
AVG speed: 4:08 min/km
Max speed: 1:13 min/km
Stage 2 - Long distance - Austria
Time: 87.40
Distance: 20.7 km
High difference: 575 m
AVG pulse: 179
Max pulse: 190
AVG speed: 4:01 min/km
Max speed: 1:11 min/km
Stage 3 - Sprint - Italy
Time: 25.14
Distance: 5.8 km
High difference: 65 m
AVG pulse: 180
Max pulse: 192
AVG speed: 4:13 min/km
Max speed: 1:51 min/km
Stage 4 - Long distance - Italy
Time: 119.07
Distance: 28.8 km
High difference:570 m
AVG pulse: 178
Max pulse: 192
AVG speed: 3:55 min/km
Max speed:1:09 min/km
Stage 1 - Middle distance - Austria
Time: 52.31
Distance: 11.7 km
High difference: 345 m
AVG pulse: 187
Max pulse: 196
AVG speed: 4:08 min/km
Max speed: 1:13 min/km
Stage 2 - Long distance - Austria
Time: 87.40
Distance: 20.7 km
High difference: 575 m
AVG pulse: 179
Max pulse: 190
AVG speed: 4:01 min/km
Max speed: 1:11 min/km
Stage 3 - Sprint - Italy
Time: 25.14
Distance: 5.8 km
High difference: 65 m
AVG pulse: 180
Max pulse: 192
AVG speed: 4:13 min/km
Max speed: 1:51 min/km
Stage 4 - Long distance - Italy
Time: 119.07
Distance: 28.8 km
High difference:570 m
AVG pulse: 178
Max pulse: 192
AVG speed: 3:55 min/km
Max speed:1:09 min/km
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