Kosutnjak - map training

Today we (Vokri, Marko, Andrea, Ivan and I)  did orienteering training with a map in the forest in the heart of Belgrade, in Kosutnjak. Vokri made several different courses and you can guess only once, my was the longest one :). I haven't done training with map for a quite long period. Garmin says 6500 meters for a 59 minutes, but I have some problems with finding the controls because it was so "green" and the controls are wooden boards so it is very difficult to see them.

Well I am not satisfied with that, but it will be better.

I hope that we will have more trainings like this, maybe even during the night. Uh, I really enjoy it today!

ready for the training

14. Post&Telecom Cup

Last weekend I was on Dvcibare near Valjevo to take a part in 14th Post&Telecom Cup. We stayed in the same house as we did last year. 

First day was National Cup race, long distance 6800 meters, 260 m climb and 13 control points. I started very carefully, trying to get in the map, because it didn't run with map for a month. I had some problems with running from 3rd to 5th control. Made mistake on 8th, bad route choice from 9th to 10th and from 14th to 15th, small mistake on 19th. My time was 68:59, less than 4 minutes behind the first, and 3rd place that day.

Second day was also long distance 7300/250/21 and it was raining whole night and day. On 2nd contrlol I made mistake and  fell on my back into a ditch with water, so if I didn't get wet of rain then I was soaking wet :). I went too much right toward 4th, and very bad  route choice toward 5th and 6th control. On the 8th I needlesly went on the first road on the right (not on the second according to gps track) insted going direct on control, but I think it wasn't at the right place. I made some mistakes on 9th, 12th and 20th control and bad route choice toward 18th control. I won 4th place 2 minutes behind the winner and just 5 seconds behind the third. My time was 88:11 minutes.

Overall result was count as a sum of both days and I took 2nd place, 4 minute behind the winner! Not so bad, but it must be better :)

2-1-3-1 that is my plan.. :)

Start on rainy second day

Last control on first day

medal..

relax time - massage  :)

Merkur running day

Danas je na Ušću održana atletska trka, koju sam iskoristio za test svoje fizičke (ne)pripremljenosti. Staza je bila kružna, dužina kruga 1 km, a trčalo se 5 krugova delimično po asfaltu, a delom po travi. Moje lično očekivanje i cilj pred ovu trku je bio da trčim oko 25 minuta.

Prvi krug sam krenuo jako brzo za mene malo preko 4 minuta, a na kraju drugog kruga sam imao oko 8:20 minuta. U trećem krugu gubim dah i polako  usporavam i na kraju malo ispod 23:00 minuta. Tako da sam sam sebe prijatno iznenadio.

Sve u svemu jako prijatno prepodne uz blago dosadnu kišicu, koja je padala celo jutro i na svu sreću ne tokom trke i dobra prilika da se iskoristi pauza u orijentiringu.

Prosto bi bilo neverovatno da ne postoje pojedinci sa izraženim kompleksima i zajedljivim komentarima, koji pokušavaju da pokvare ovako lepe trenutke. Ali to je život i trčim dalje, a oni će mi gledati u leđa!!!

FORZA RAĐONI!!!