Sprint and Middle distance National Championships
Thursday, 13. March 2008, 23:20:41
Last weekend (8-9/03/2008) took place in Castelo de Vide the Portuguese Sprint and Middle Distance National Championships.
My weekend started on friday with two trainings in two differents maps in the region that had been used in a competition last year.
The Sprint Championship was composed by two races: in the morning in florest and in the afthernoon urban in Castelo de Vide village.
For me this was a good competition, however in the morning I did one big mistake: the two first controls were very easy and the third was a litle bit more dificult, but I didn't understand it and take a bad direction who made me loose about 2 minutes
In afthernoon the race was almost perfect and I enjoy it very much.
The Middle Distance Championship was very disappointing for me. I start the race very concentrated however in the 7th control a disaster happened. I take a bad direction and when I was near ta little wall I saw the rocks and I thought that I was on the rocks below that actually I was. After I saw the control 9 and finally I understood that I was wrong. I know where I was but my brain stopped and I tried to find myself.
Then my brain started to work and I found the control. All this story made me loose more than 2 minutes. However the story doesn´t end here.
To the 11th control I lost more seconds because there was one wall that wasn't represented in the map. To 12th control I tried to recover some lost time, however I lost more than 1 minute.
Until the end of the course I didn't make more mistakes like those, only a small mistake to the 19th control.
After the competition I went to Leiria where there were 4 latvian guys. Two of them from OK Klemmingen.
Ok Klemmingen is my new club in Sweden... I will go to Sweden in May to prepare myself to he JWOC '08 in Sweden...It is my biggest goal this year.
My weekend started on friday with two trainings in two differents maps in the region that had been used in a competition last year.
The Sprint Championship was composed by two races: in the morning in florest and in the afthernoon urban in Castelo de Vide village.
For me this was a good competition, however in the morning I did one big mistake: the two first controls were very easy and the third was a litle bit more dificult, but I didn't understand it and take a bad direction who made me loose about 2 minutes
In afthernoon the race was almost perfect and I enjoy it very much.
The Middle Distance Championship was very disappointing for me. I start the race very concentrated however in the 7th control a disaster happened. I take a bad direction and when I was near ta little wall I saw the rocks and I thought that I was on the rocks below that actually I was. After I saw the control 9 and finally I understood that I was wrong. I know where I was but my brain stopped and I tried to find myself.
Then my brain started to work and I found the control. All this story made me loose more than 2 minutes. However the story doesn´t end here.
To the 11th control I lost more seconds because there was one wall that wasn't represented in the map. To 12th control I tried to recover some lost time, however I lost more than 1 minute.
Until the end of the course I didn't make more mistakes like those, only a small mistake to the 19th control.
After the competition I went to Leiria where there were 4 latvian guys. Two of them from OK Klemmingen.
Ok Klemmingen is my new club in Sweden... I will go to Sweden in May to prepare myself to he JWOC '08 in Sweden...It is my biggest goal this year.
