"Great weekend"

Last weekend I was in Belgium again. This time I was participating selection races for the Belgium national team. Together with Olle Karner and Andreas Kraas we were, so to speak, additional runners (not competitive). We ran two races: middle and long.

Middle. After two controls I ve met Olle who was starting 2 minutes before me. Some controls together, than I ve decided to make some mistakes on the 8 and 9, so I could run alone again. It went well, I lost almost 50 seconds on this two controls.  The butterfly went well, except some small hesitations on (16 actually it was 12, I had a different course than the owner of the map Yannick) and on 12 ( for me 18-th). On the butterfly control met Olle again. That was quite a surprise, obviosly he couldnot without me. But than, suddenly, I felt me so strong, that I ran wrong direction to the control 22. 

The winner, Fabien Pasquasi, was too strong for me to beat. So I am quite happy with second position on this one. However, I did twist my ankle which affected my performance on long very much.

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Long. My ankle became much bigger that day than usual but I still could walk. I thought: if I can walk , than I can run as well.  I did a nice long training. I was running competition speed only on flat and slightly uphill terrain. On the steep slopes up or down and every downhill I was running very carefully because of the injury the day before.I see no need to post the my route choices cause I wasnot running full capacity so only the  Yannick Miechels' Map.  Next weekend Danish Spring.

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P.S. On the way back home some stupid fucker stole my fucking bag with all orienteering equipment. However, I would love to see his face, when he opened the bag with smelly shoes and t-shorts.... What a disappointment for me and for him.

NK middle

Dutch champion, woooow!!!!!!!! Anyway, I was not the best that day. A lot of work  to do on my orienteering. Just look at the routechoises (18, 21, 28 - embarrassing!!). This weekend another competion -  will work on those mistakes.

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The routechoises in red are from the winner Yannick Miechels.

BK middle

The first official start of 2012. For my feeling, I did a quite good race. Afterwards, though, it was quite embarrassing performance. Even I did a competition the day before. No orienteering flow, no confidence, no strength, no speed, only a will (at least that) However, I knew – I could not expect anything from myself at that moment. The good thing is that I ve got a lot of the motivation for the rest of the season. Another good thing is that I am enjoying orienteering again!!! The last is, I think, the most important for me.

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My route is red, the another one is Olle Karner's route.