Summer days and one good news

In the last days in Tampere the Temperatures were extremely higher, around 30-33 Celsius, the traditional way is to spent time in sun on the beach, jump to the cold lake and eating Grill especially sausage. smell and feeling like a holiday basically this is Finland and i really like it!

Today afternoon i compete in Tampereen Iltarastit, evening competition system in Tampere region. The terrain was runnable and quite good visibility. 

Luckily this time i had almost no mistakes, some few of 5-10 seconds but no more then 30 seconds in total. 

 

Today i got more motivaition to continue my trainings and even train harder, the  massage came from the Israeli orienteering association chairmen that i will represent Israel in WOC 2014 in Italy. 

On 2008 i took a part in training camp in this area and i am remember very clear the hills, then now its time to meet every single hill in Tampere.

 

Finland championship - Middle championship

On Friday i was traveling to Lappeenranta, Finnish city near the Russian border, on the plane was  Finland championship in Middle distance, qualification in the morning and 2 hours later the final, busy day but this is the new Finnish standard.

After a long trip from Tampere on Friday evening we arrived in Lappeenranta and goes to Model event, some ideas what looking for the competition terrain.

I ran some controls and got impression from the terrain, low visibility, wet marshes and a lot of trees on the ground - Finnish forest typical. Pure orienteering.

first start for the middle qualification, luckily i got a good start lists because the rules as changed in Finland and now its according the WRE.  

in the beginning of the race i decide to take it easy then i ran easy to the first control, to the secound control my plane was to make this leg from the right of the line but planes as changed then i was climbing to the control. 1 minute mistake.

5th control i did good until the circle, i saw another control and i decided to check the code, then i go back to my control - non confident mistake. 20S' mistake.

7th control i ran it quite well, but approx 40 meters before the control i didn't understand the cliffs and found another control on the hill. 1 minute mistake.

until the end i was pushing hard but its to much 2:30 minutes mistake for Final A.

this performance gave me only a 27th place. 25:33 minutse for 4.1K.

If i will realize my result for Israeli level its mean excetly 6 minutes per kilometer, in Israel it can be defiantly crazy result but in Finland its another level.

  

After the first races in the morning, two hours later was another run- the finals competition, FinalB2. 

 start the race good until 3th control but then i made 3 minutes mistake to 4th control and lost all my motivation and hot weather - 30 Celsius- also not helped it so i decide just to enjoy the amazing terrain and in the same time i felt very tired :D

So what next?
In the next days i will try to gain some more hours in Finnish terrain, next competition is Ikaalinen middle distance on Sunday.

Orienteering Skills

When i met for the first time Finnish terrain, somewhere in 2011, i had a lot of afraid about my skills level, if they are good enough?, yeah this time in 2011 it was bad very bad.

Today afternoon i made a nice training in Tampere, Middle distance course and basically a model event for the weekend ahead - Finnish championship in Middel distance.

While the race the feeling was good, didnt push hard because i wanted to feel the map and soft and rocky ground. the course went quite well except 9th control, there was a big Marsh and i didnt found big Marsh on the map, on the map it was white flat forest. anyway i trust my comass and go to the other side. some minute of mistake one more littel mistake was in the 6th control i came to the other side of the hil and fix it quickly.

On Saturday i will compete in Finnish middel distance championship, really looking for it!

   

10Mila 2014

three weeks ago i heading to Sweden to compete in 10Mila, personality i never been in that famous orienteering event, i have been only twice in Jukola.

one week befor the competition i got a news that i will run the last leg for the first team in Koovee club, i felt a big responsible and also a pressure because this is a strong team but i know that is a big challenge for me and i can make my best .

we were in a Cottage house near the competition center and i was watching the competition until the thierd leg and then i checked my luck if it is possible go to sleep, ok i slept like a baby :D

i started my run with some 2-3 more runners but i ignored them, although i made a mistake already in he first control but fix it quickly.

to the 4th control i took a compass in the green area to the hill and i got a wrong conrol buy i know where i am and go to the right control then.

7th control we where 5 runners and i saw there is a forking, i push hard that controls but i saw the group off from the 9th control and i tried to push harder.

only in 15th control i catched them and took a better rout choice to the road and i was ahead of them in 10 secounds and i pushed harder all the next control then along.

in20th control i saw another control and i knows its not mine then i saw my control in the stones.

in the last control i didnt saw the road near the fence and i decide to run between the cliffs, i lost 15 secounds there and one runner pass me and it was to late

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my race was quite good, quite satisfied, i was trying to be safety with my run and not to make big mistakes and it works well.

  

      

Welcome back

To long time since i was writing something in my old blog, then i decided to update it with a google system.

last one a half month i was taking part in EOC  in Portugal the first goal of this year and directly after that i was heading to Latvia for a training camp and a several of competitions: Riga cup, Latvian night championship, Latviaan championship in Sprint and Long and some local competitions as well. in addition i also compete at Tiomila in Sweden, i was able to run last leg for Koovee first team.

last Monday i was arriving in Finland for a middel distance championship in this weekend, my plane is to train and get ready for the main competition of the year- Jukola, for that i plane to train with Koovee club in Tampere until then.

since now i will update some news from time to time about my preparation for my next goal Jukola.