The final countdown - WOC

Last Saturday i arrived in Israel after a very long period in europe, i got a warm weather welcome, but basically its not that hot, in August it will be even warmer.

After a long period that my body was used to be in a normal temperature i met the hot weather face to face and i was looking for a hard week and final preparation for WOC.

Luckily my body felt ok in that hard week of preparation with lots of training,unfortunately all the training was just running without orienteering training because the forest has very sticky bushes everywhere. Also, the timetable for training was totaly different.. morning training start at 6:00 and evening training at 18:30, it is too hot to train in the middle of the day.

Now i am sitting in the air conditioner and just spending some time with psychological preperition for WOC with some simulations for all the distances. one more sprint training for the final preperition on Tuesday and a good rest before the competition of the year starts.

I will run all the distances in WOC, but this time there is quite a good resting time between the races because we dont have a team for sprint relay and that means that i have 4 days to get ready for the Long distance and then one day off to recover for Middle.

My personal feeling is good for this main event of the year, my shape is much better then EOC in april and i am looking to see what i can do.
this year i was running a lot of competitions and training in Europe and i feel much more ready then in last years.

On Thursday morning we will start the journey to Italy and already on Saturday the first race will start. looking for a great experience.
Let's get it started!!!