BEOGRAD OPEN - prolog

SPRING JUNIPER OPEN

Karta na kojoj se održava ovo takmičenje definitivno treba da uđe u kolekciju "101 karta koju treba da trčite dok ste živi". Ako ne trenirate na ovom terenu svaka trka na njemu je izazov. Tako je bilo i ovog vikenda.

Prvog dana nas je čekala karta sa 8.8km koja je bila uglavnom po četinarskoj šumi koja je pomešana sa delovim obraslim klekom i zaraslom šumom. Kao i što sam planirao, trku sam počeo jako od samog starta i što je najvažnije održao sam koncentraciju na viskom nivou. Prvu grešku sam napravio kod 10. kontrole, koju sam video ali je nisam očekivao na tom delu zato što je šuma bila prosečena ali nije ucrtano. Posle toga sam napravio i loš odlazak sa 22.kontrole tako da sam promašio put koji je prolazio kroz granje, nisam ga video, i skrenuo sam na put po ivici karte i izgubio oko 60sek. Na kraju sam išao 52.59 i zauzeo treće mesto, uz oko 2min greške.
Drugog dana je bio teren po kome je poznato ovo takmičenje, a da zlo bude veće karta je bila 1:10000 što dodatno otežava stvari. Staza je bila duga 13.2km. Od samog starta sam počeo da menjam varijante. Na putu do 1. kontrole sam tri puta menjao varijantu. Na drugoj sam se vrteo na 5m od rupe u kojoj je bila kontrola. Na 12. kontroli sam doživeo fijasko vrteći se 24min oko nje. Šlag na torti je bila 20. kontrola koju sam tražio skoro 12min. Iako sam zamalo odustao na 12.kontroli, nastavio sam trku i do poslednjeg metra sam išao jako kao da nisam napravio nijednu grešku i kao da se borim za plasman, i drago mi je da sam u dobroj formi iako je tek početak sezone.

U senci ove trke, održana je Skupština OSS na kojoj je izabrano novo rukovodstvo, koje će i dalje biti skup impotentnih staraca i naduvanih veličina i jajara, čast izuzecima, kojima će i dalje biti cilj da zarade neki dinar na trkama i za koje ne verujem da će učiniti nešto da se ljudi ubede da je ovo sport a ne planinarenje, tako da ne očekujem nikakvo poboljšanje u narednom periodu.

5months, 3500km, 320h, one wish!!!

Last winter was very hard form me. I trained a lot during the winter and push hard in every training, except in february because of weather. It was so demanding to do training on snow and cold weather, on the dirty road and wood. I didnt have lot of training session with map but I hope that it will be better in next period.

Tomorrow I will going in Hungary on Juniper spring open and that will be first official race in this season with big expectation. Actually I am not in good shape, my legs are heavy because of hard training this week, but next weekend will start season in Serbia and I hope that I will be fit for that races.

New season

This is my first post for this year. This winter has been too hard and long for me. I had a lot of long and hard trainigs and about New Year I had a flu but now everything is OK. I had more than 800km or 70h running per month. I hope that it will be enough to be well prepared for next season. Several times I changed my training plan because of snow and cold weather and I haven't done much tehnical training this winter, but I hope that the weather will be good next month.

Last weekend I took part in some winter league in Novi Sad and it was my first race for this year. It was very fast sprint race without tehnical demanding route but that was good training.

Now I'm in the best period of my life for trainings and therefore I am able to train every day for more than two hours.

Košutnjak intervali

Pošto je vreme ovog vikenda baš loše, odlučio sam se da ostanem u Beogradu i da uradim još jedan trening sa kartom na Košutnjaku. Da ne bi bilo samo dosadno trčanje po poznatom terenu, odlučio sam da uradim 4 serije intervala 1-2-3-2-1 minut brzo sa 1 minut lagano između. S obzirom da je šuma vlažna, na nekim delovima sam imao problema da idem brzo ali sam stazu od 10.6km prešao za 54.30min, jer sam uglavnom birao puteve kao pogodnije po ovakvom vremenu.

Kosmaj

Pošto su mi opet propali planovi oko mini O vikenda, odlučio sam da danas odem na Kosmaj. U nedostatku drugih karata, trčao sam po karti sa Prvenstva Srbije od prošle godine koju nisam završio iz dobro poznatih razloga. Kada sam došao na vrh Kosmaja dočekalo me iznenađenje, vidljivost je bila od 20-30m. Izazov više.

Na sreću, šuma je uglavnom čista i trčljiva ali i klizava. Pao sam mnogo puta u toku treninga na mokro granje i klizavo lišće. U principu staza nije bila teška koliko sam morao da vodim računa o tome gde sam zbog magle. Na kraju sam išao 9.2km za 75min.

Popovica

Kako sam već odavno počeo pripremni period za sledeću sezonu, tako počinjem sa ubacivanjem treninga sa kartom. Ovog vikenda sam, umesto planiranog trening vikenda u Novom Sadu, napravio trening od 12km na Košutnjaku u subotu i danas trening trku u Novom Sadu.

Na Popovici sam sa tehničke strane nezadovoljan završio trening jer sa imao greške u reonu kontrole na 5. i 12. kontroli, dok sam na 10. izabrao lošu varijantu. Raduje me što osećam da sam trkački jači nego letos, što znači da preko 16h treninga nedeljno daje prve rezultate.
Sledećeg vikenda ću verovatno uraditi još četiri treninga na Fruškoj gori uz nadam se društvo iz drugih klubova.

Autumn Juniper Open

I am so tired tonight, and you can see only map from competition. Rest of story you can read tomorrow.

Petrovaradin

Last weekend the race was held in Novi Sad on beautifull and chalenge fortress. It was a little anniversary, the first 25 years of OAK "Novi Sad" and Frulja's 50th birthday, team mate of that club.
Every race on that fortress is very exciting. There are a lot of passages, walls, levels, paths and if you don't know spatial arrangement you are in trouble.

I started race very well untill the 6th control, when I missed one passage and made mistake of 2.30 minutes. After that, on the 8th control I passed on the wrong side of the wall and lost some 30 more seconds. On the 10th control I chose a variant from the right side and lost about 20sec., even though I thought that the left variant was better. Till the end of the race I had a quite safe race. At the end I was the first with 30 seconds ahead of the second competitor. It was a good control race after the first cycle of preparation period with more than 700km in a month.
After all I was satisfied with running however I must do something with my self confidence during the race and selection of variants.

Zemun

Today was held another race of Belgrade league. Those races come in handy to break the monotony of athletic training.

The only important thing with this race was fall down on the fifth control and I barely got up and injured knee. The park was very slippery because it was rainy all night. After that fall I chose routes on paths wherever it was possible. At the end 2.4km-9.52min.