Babe - night championship & relay

Two races in less than 20 hours. Great courses, fantastic weather conditions for running, positive atmosphere with the smell of barbecue  and happy people. That will be impressions in short words.

Night

Relay

Ada night training

On Friday Belac called me for night training on Ada on Saturday evening, so I prepared my lamp and running equipment. It was birthday party of him and Natasa and he prepared birthday race for us orienteers. 

The course was 9 km long with 22 controls. At the start only four of us. To be honest I expected more people to run. Never mind, small group but chosen! We didn't have regular controls, just fluo tapes.

And the fun could begin!! Here is a map!

I enjoyed last night in this interesting course. Small mistake on 1st, on the 6th I couldn't see the path well despite I was on it, so I went around. At the end 75 minutes for this course.

After the race we went to the nearby caffe. Despite I felt a little bit tired after this, I found enough energy for Belgrade night life until 3 am :)

Recta linea brevissima, recta via tutissima

No posts for almost two months and a lot of things happened in that period. I ran few orienteering races, did my first duathlon and had very bad accident on bike. Here are maps from the competitions with track.

Beograd open


This race I ran with Go Pro headcam, great experience and a pressure to add while orienteering.
Here is the link from organizers. http://vimeo.com/41447943

Jajinci - sprint race

Ravna gora

Interesting terrain, not so satisfied with map drawing.

Sombor - sprint duathlon

Combination of running and cycling, 5km run + 20 km bike + 2.5 km run. Really good feeling making transitions from one discipline to other. It was sunny, but with strong wind. I was 16 minutes behind the first Igor Vuković (champion for year 2012), so I could be satisfied with my time. 

Hope to do first triathlon this year :)

Link from the competition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S60ZA1psw94

After the race Igor and I went to new aquapark near Novi Sad

Now I'm packing my bag and in one hour I'm going to Morahalom, Hungary for 3 day orienteering event and 5 races. And of course, visiting spa!! It will be my first run since 1st May and will see how the "engine" works.

Show must go on!!!

Andrevlje, Fruska gora

Here we go again... New season, new beginning...

First race for me this season was held on the mountain Fruska gora, Andrevlje map, cc 80 km north west from Belgrade.

I started easy, focused on the map and forget to turn on my watch :) I did it very good until 6th control where I went more right then I want, but quickly I got on the right direction. Then I was unsecured on the 10th and pass by close to 11th control. I did it fine until 17th where it was very, very hard for me to run, so I slow down and on 18th I was thinking to stop, but somehow I managed to finish this race.

At the end 8200m for 97:44 minutes and totally exhausted, but it was compensated with visiting nearby spa :).. "Spa orienteering" that is my sport :)

Zimska trening liga - Topčiderski park

U okviru 3. kola Zimske trening lige u Topčiderskom parku je održana jedan interesantan trening. Ekipe su bile sastavljene od po dva člana i svako je trčao po tri staze - sprint štafeta na jedan čip, gde je trebalo voditi računa o redosledu kombinacija staza, koje svaki takmičar treba da pređe. Utisci svakako pozitivni, dosta akcije i neizvesnosti  na malom prostoru. 

Ja i dalje nastavljam sa kombinacijom trčanja dužinskih treninga i trenažera tako da mi je ovaj trening prijao da se malo razmrdam. Šteta, banja je izostala ovog puta... :) ali biće prilike da se to ispravi..

U prilogu je karta sa trekom.

A ovako to izgleda via google earth....

Paracin - trening

Proteklog vikenda sam se dogovorio i sa Vokrijem i Andreom otišao na trening u Paraćin u okviru Zimske lige. Interesantno je da se trčalo na potpuno novoj karti - Glavica, razmere 1:5000. Teren interesantan, kao i koncepcija staze.

Prva, druga ok. Kod treće sam stajao ispred nje na nekoliko metara i nisam je video. Posle je sve bilo ok do 9 gde sam izabrao lošu varijantu. 12. sam tražio sa pogrešne strane gustiša, pa loša varijanta na 13. Onda manja greška na 20., pa opet ta famozna 22. (9.) i neverovatna ista greška donja strana zemljanog odseka i manja greška na 25. i sve to u vremenu od 59:30 minuta, staza 5200m (po garminu 7km).

Naravno, kako to i dolikuje, posle treninga smo otišli u banju Sisevac na kupanje i ručak. Malo slika ispod čisto da se zna... :) Sad Paraćin postaje još interesantniji za vikend treninge...

Pobednici...

2012...

Za početak, svima vama koji pratite moj blog želim srećnu i uspešnu 2012. godinu...

Da, nisam dugo ništa pisao, ali imao sam i razloga za to. Naime, u proteklih 6 meseci sam se skućio i sad mogu opet da uživam objavljujući postove sa interesantnih takmičenja i događaja, kojih će, nadam se, u 2012. biti dosta.

U drugom delu sezone bilo je dobrih takmičenja na kojima sam učestvovao, kao što su Kopaonik, Tara, Hungaria kup, Pirto i Venecija - takmičenje koje me je potpuno oduševilo i gde ću ići i sledeće godine.

Uskoro i post sa treninga u Paraćinu.