I feel lonely

And maybe I am not alone. What is the reason of EOC? To arrange competitions just for best runners and give IOF diplomas and IOF medals without spectators and with poor media coverage? What about live-GPS? And what about…



On the other side competitions are interesting and our 5th place (ok 7th…) in relays is really good! My performance was good, but there is still something to improve. Thanks to Bingo and Olaf for nice runs...



results

Last Sunday I did one of my poorest performances in the sprint, and did not make final…


Let’s hope that my performances will be better tomorrow and on Saturday.
you can watch it on competition webpages

LANGA NATTEN 2010 – the story of one leg

My place in the KR team on Tiomila was on the third leg, non-forked langa natten. I did have a phone call in the week before 10M with our national team coach Radovan:

Radovan: By the way, which leg are you going to run?
Me: Langa natten
Radovan: Are you so poor, or what happened?

I did start to understand his words after talking with our experienced runners Tommi and Miika. My task was easy, just stay in the contact with Halden and Kristiansand. No problem, on non-forked course, but something against my view of orienteering.

This task becomes bit more difficult after my start. I catch the leaders of my starting group on the second control, but I did not see Halden or Kristiansand. Ok, I have to reboot my system and take northern direction with full speed. Some teams did follow me and finally I reach the route and use my running skills. Only Bekkelaget manage to stay with me all the time. When I climb up to the hill before 3rd control, I saw I big group approaching 3rd control. Perkele! At least my route choice was equal… What a kind surprise, there is Järla and Stora Tuna. I just climb up trough group and I saw THE MASTER in front and Kristiansand just behind! YEP! WE ARE BACK!


Thanks Jan Kocbach for this video!

Rest of the course was quite boring, because I did play for the team. Anders was doing really good work in front. He is clear KING of the long night; I am just king of one route choice…

Kings of the night

This night I will remember forever. It was a perfect performance from Kalevan Rasti TEAM:

The TEAM: Tero, Fabu, Pena, Chrob, Jere, Hannu, Tommi, Haaska, Aaro, Miika

And I still have to remember head coach Pipo! Injured athlets Simo, SP and Nurci plus supporters Borje and Jukka plus all the others... They are making THE TEAM

Tiomila webpages
GPS tracking 3rd leg

Training camp times

Just watch the movies and go twice a day for the o-training, what the life. I did spend two last weeks with this easy lifestyle, firstly in the France with the Czech national team. there was written already much about our cooperation with the Swedish team. The result was the best training camp I have ever been. My runs on the measured trainings were quite good, but I was quite poor in the low speed trainings.


I spend just two days in Joensuu and we were traveling again to Sweden. Southern Sweden is destination without the snow, but pretty far from Joensuu. With some Longeros on the boat, it was possible to survive over 24h of traveling.

Times are changing, during pressure training Miika was not able to follow Kalle and during 10M test Kalle beat me badly...

Mari just shows to Heikkonen, what happend tonight with his hand. See you in autumn!




Our coach Pipo just find out that I lost my brain somewhere on the way from France. This results in quite good runs in night mass start training (half on the rouds and avg speed 4:18 in the night!) and in the competition, but also in two 5min mistakes during night’s trainings…

My preformance on 10M test was not the best. I did find 5th and 3th control twice and 4th control I did not find at all (there was a flag on the knoll next to the right one and I did not know that)

5min searching for the control number 7 in second round take away all the pressure during pressure training...

Finally, today I manage to run 5km for 15:25 (3:06, 3:04, 3:06, 3:06, 3:03) in Joensuu Areena. The track is in really poor condition there and I was running alone, so I am quite satisfied with the result. Thanks to Pipo for timekeeping, Ape for shooting the videos, Jere for last km help and Hannu for starting feeling :)

Start position

What a feeling


I am now selected to EOC and WOC sprint and it is time to get ready for this competitions. The rest of the Czech team have selection races this weekend. Hopefully trio Jan Mrazek, Jan Sedivy and Petr Losman will take last places in the team, I am with you!

France NEXT

I am leaving for the training camp to the France with Czech team. I am looking forward, because program looks challenging.

Kalevan Rasti team is on the training camp in Bulgaria right now, so last days in Joensuu were quite silent and boring with an exception of Biathlon World Cup at the weekend. I did support Michal Slesinger well...

In the beginning of February, We did have training camp in Slovenia. I can recommend this destination to everyone. More info is on CZE webpages or JEva.

Finally the highlight of article, two weeks ago I did run 10km of road running Kbelská desítka. This competition does start in the same village, where Jan Šedivý is living. Unfortunately, strong snowstorm during night covered the entire track with snow so times were poor. The winner Peter Losman was really strong in the end and I am waiting his time from Roma marathon this weekend. I was nearly beaten by Jan Mrazek for the first time in running competition. But he is still Pragovácká sole…

In the end we have to paint sauna, because we beat Jan Sedivy and he do not have any blog to answer back…

Time to speed up!

It is already over one week from the times when KR train was driving trough old railway in Arraiolos



We did quite much good training in the competition speed. The highlight was maybe night mass-start with the speed under 5min/km and wet and marshy ground. The most important was that all the KR runners manage to finish nearly in the same time.

Riding with KR train around Arraiolos destroy me quite much and I was not able to compete on the POM, but times of the winners were amazing…

After coming back into Finland, nice weather was waiting us again. I just realize that it is better to check temperature before going to run. -35 is too much…

Fortunately weather starts to be smart and it looks that temperature will not decrease under -20 anymore. That is good news, because it is already start to speed up, after long and cold winter!

How to repair a car in the middle of nowhere with internet access but without mobile phone signal?

It does not look like Skoda...

Maybe it is because of CarSAUNA from the King dinner?

But finally Hannu found the solution…

De-freezing

Any post already for the one month, but not because of boring time, I just get frozen immediately after my arrival into the Finland.

I can tell you that 160min long run in the -23 can make you drunk for free :)

I can tell you that not just sun-bathing, but also freeze-bathing can destroy your face skin…

I can tell you what it means Hevonen hiihto (horse skiing = speeding in the uphills) with Krtek and Rumcajs...

I can tell you what does it mean to ski distance from Prague to Brno and run from Joensuu to Vuokatti in the one week. Actually this stupidity destroys my knee again and shows me red alert light. Fortunately nothing dangerous and knee looks OK again… More about training camp in Vuokatti is on SP blog.

Uphills in Vuokatti, I did not run, because of the knee:


Winter scenery of last month:


Last week weather started to be warm again (around -7), but soon I will disappear to the Portugal. Hopefully red alert light in my knee already turn into the green light and I will be able to run POM 2010.