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Jukola 2013: what a teachers I have

Betak — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:06:55 +0000

My way towards this year Jukola started already last year on WOC banquet. I peak Jukola 2013 as the next goal and even with WOC gold medal in my pocket, I still have to fight for the place in the first team. I got a confirmation after last stage of NORT, yes!
In the evening before the start I just realize that I am the only one in the team who never won Jukola so I have asked the guys to teach me: how to win.
I was so excited that I cannot fall asleep during the Jukola night, so I just watched how Jere is dancing trough first leg, afterwards I was expecting bit stronger finish from last control from SP (like last year), Pena showed that even he was not able to do two night trainings during week before Jukola (due to short Finnish nights), he was still able to handle big challenge of Jukola long night. Hannu was again for the while listening crazy frog song, but still come first to exchange. I tried to do error-less orienteering, but still sometimes too careful. It was enough to send Swiss Robocop Fabu (NORT + two selection races in legs) to the forest on the top position. Fabu made a perfect job and exchange to Thierry again on the first position. Thierry is the best teacher in the world, so he easily keeps his full speed and no mistake orienteering until the last control.

What a feeling and what a team! Thanks guys for teaching me how to win Jukola! It was really nice lecture and I will remember it.
results

First and last NORT

Betak — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:54:17 +0000

This year it was my first experience with Nordic orienteering tour and unfortunately also the last one. The Czech team did not participate in previous years, because it is not the cheapest to travel on the way Norway-Sweden-Finland, but this year we finally build the team and took it like preparation for WOC in Finland.

What impressions did I got during last week:

About myself:
I was 9th in overall standing, that is pretty good result on which I can build up my preparation towards WOC, but in first four stages my results were always behind expectations. In Norway I always lost some time just before end of competitions. In Sweden I was knocked-out after poor run in semifinal and finally last sprint in Turku did not went according to my expectations either. I made again 30s mistake in middle of the sprint course and end-up on basic 20th place. Last race went well, but I was all the time in huge group of runners. So I made some OK runs, but not any good results, I can say that I was just average runner, who no one is going to remember.

overall standings

About NORT
First two stages in Norway were not anything special, but organizers manage to have at least low-cost TV production. From Swedish knock-out sprint I did not expect much, but I was kindly surprised. It was a fun to run knock-out sprint semifinal, I did not read the map in second part of the course much, but I was still losing to leaders of the group by wrong route-choices (orienteering still matter even in this format of competition). So I got knocked-out and I can enjoy final in front of big screen and it was an exciting experience. Last two stages in Finland were also pretty nice and when I watched TV production from chasing start it was pretty good. Looks like Finnish are doing good promotion of orienteering during this spring, next is Jukola and them the peak during WOC week.

NORT live page

Future of World Cup
I am bit skeptic about future of World Cup in following years. NORT was a good attempt to bring orienteering to TV, even it was an expensive one (for Nordic O-Federations and non-Nordic national teams). For example Swedish manage to develop well knock-out sprint. This looks finally good in TV and it is suitable format for WC, but this discipline will hopefully never be in WOC program, because it would again decrease value of WOC medal…

Next step
Right now I don’t care much about future of World Cup, but I have just Jukola in my mind. Let’s rock!
KR 1
1. Jere Pajunen
2. Simo-Pekka Fincke
3. Philippe Adamski
4. Hannu Airila
5. Jan Prochazka
6. Fabian Hertner
7. Thierry Gueorgiou

KR 2
1. Juuso Metsälä
2. Mikko Heinonen
3. Aaro Asikainen
4. Jarkko Huovila
5. Antti Nurmonen
6. Adam Chromy
7. Kiril Nikolov

Second chance

Betak — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:47:18 +0000

Czech team test races last weekend did not meet my best orienteering shape:

Article with al the results on Czech team webpage

Friday morning 3km test run 8:41
We started with 3km track and field test run. This race went pretty well for me. We decided to run pace 2:55 and change the lead with Vojta Kral lap after lap. It felt easy to run this speed and I reached time 8:41 after speeding up in last lap, but the hero of this test run was Vojta who had run last lap for 63s and made time 8:38. I wonder what time can we reach if we start some faster pace from beginning, but we have to save energy for afternoon.

more pictures taken by Lalla

Friday afternoon Chasing start
Afternoon chasing start race was based on track and field results multiplied by three. So all of us started nearly in half minute, but course was pretty forked, so it was an individual competition, even I run two thirds of one loop with Tomas Dlabaja. After we spitted my first laziness cause a mistake. I was going for second time to central control, from which we had compulsory leg and I felt like I will easily find it. So I lost contact with the map and did not watch my compass either. It cost me „just“ one minute, so I was not really punished and finished on second spot one minute behind Tomas (he made also about 1min mistake on second last control). Terrain of this race was pretty stony and none of us had a good feeling in the finnish. We do not trust our skills and running speed in this kind of Nordic terrain. Thing we have to work on until WOC 2013

Sunday middle distance
The selection of the terrain was pretty good towards WOC 2013. When I walked on model map, I felt like I am in Joensuu in Juuka area, just mapping style was different. I did not know that misunderstanding of the map will case one really huge mistake. I did not run with GPS, but down on the picture you can see my mistake. I attacked control for three times from huge marsh, but never use compass properly so I went up wrong valley (also bit misunderstood the map)… The conclusion: I have to watch my compass even in slopes and rely on it.

Monday Long distance
Fast terrain where the fastest option was usually straight, but surprisingly sometimes it was faster to save power by using the paths. I choose to run sprint already in the winter, but after mi mistakes in previous races I tried to do my best even I was not aiming to WOC long. I lost some time on few route choices, but mainly I was just running slower pace than Jan Šedivý. He made pretty good race and won with huge gap.

Vuokatti
From Sweden I went straight to Vuokatti and I try to get my muscles adapted to heavy terrain in Vuokatti. After our test races I started to have in my mind just sprint and relays. Fortunately I got a second chance and I was selected also for middle, but there will not be any second chance in WOC middle qualification or final, I have to get ready for it!

Czech team for WOC (still some free places for girls after NORT)

Some makkara time with Aaro, with nice view to WOC embargo

Yep Sininen Ylivoima to WOC!

Betak — Sun, 12 May 2013 19:37:44 +0000

I am listening them from last autumn on every training camp with Kaleven Rasti. The most famous songs like Lepopäivä (TFD = training free day) and Etelään (Going South). Especially second one was really popular during our training camp in Spain. I did never catch exact meaning of the songs, because of my really poor Finnish skills so new WOC song is for me just other reason to come to perform!

By the way, I had really successful last days, it started

Tiomila:

results
My article in Czech on Aminostar.cz

Czech Sprint Championship:
Still waiting for gold…
results
TV production

Czech Cup 2013 Sunday
my map

Now is time of Czech team selection races, They will start next Friday in Avesta and Borlange:
17. 5. – morning 3km test run
17. 5. – afternoon Chasing start according to 3km results
19. 5. – middle
20. 5. – long
Hopefully I am ready to rock (rap) like Sininen Ylivoima..

MČR sprint, kdo si počká

Betak — Thu, 09 May 2013 08:05:57 +0000

ten se (ne)dočká. Asi mi není dáno vyhrát českej majstršaft v kategorii dospělých. Když tak zabrousím do historie od roku 2007 (2005 jsem byl až 16tý a 2007 nestartoval):
2007: 3. místo
2008: 2. místo
2009: 3. místo
2010: 4. místo
2011: 2. místo
2012: 2. místo (2s za zlatem)
2013: 2. místo (2s za zlatem)

Letošní mistrovství pořádala Lokomotiva Pardubice a jednalo se o nádherně uspořádaný závod s kamerami České televize a nádhernou diváckou kulisou. Díky vám všem za její vytvoření!

Závod si můžete sledovat v pátek na ČT4 sport od 13:10

výsledky
stránky závodů

Můj výkon byl dobrý hlavně po fyzické stránce, bohužel jsem se nevyvaroval několika chyb. První, když jsem přehlédnul „neprůstupnou zeď“ u kontroly č. 2., na desítku se to asi chtělo vyhnout schodům, u 13 mě překvapil rybník, takže jsem musel zastavit a 15k jsem si nedokázal domapovat, takže jsem razil kontrolu č. 88 po cestě… Všechny tyto chyby byly okolo 5 vteřin a myslím, že i Vojťas si jich tam pár najde, na všech těchto místech jsem vlastně ztratil zlato. Původně měl můj článek měl končit zde, ale po přečtení JAK TO VIĎÍ BÉĎA, nemůžu jinak než se ohradit k tomu aby z nás dělali tupce…

Již zmiňovaná dokreslená zeď u kontroly č. 2, jak nádherně to vypadá na monitoru, v měřítku s kterým jsme neběželi:

zdroj:viz Béďa
a teď pro srovnání v reálném měřítku na mapě se kterou jsem běžel závod:

Co dodat, na výběhu schodů k neprůběžné bráně jsem na Vojťase ztratil pouze vteřinu, na druhou stranu jsem měl tento postup naučený ze street view, takže když jsem zjistil, že je brána zavřená, ihned jsem běžel na rampu přes zeď bez nutnosti koukání se do mapy. Neměl jsem srdce podávat protest na tak pěkně uspořádaný závod, ale to že „Jury rozhodla (u protestu jiného závodníka), že použití značky neovlivnilo výrazně výsledky“ mi přijde trochu drsné, alespoň vůči závodníkům, jako je Mráz., který na tomto postupu pohřbil víc než jen pár vteřin…

MČR v nočním

Betak — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:21:03 +0000

Letošní mistrovskou sezónu jsme zahájili stylově, na autokrosu v Dolním Bouzově. V tomto prostoru jsem již jednou běžel memoriál J. Paclíka 2011. To bývalo v dobách než se Mádloša dal na rybaření, i když to vlastně není tak dávno…

Dva roky mi v hlavě zůstaly dvě vzpomínky. První, že v jednom místě je ten svah trochu posunutý, prostě člověk běží rovně, i když na mapě se propadne asi o dvě vrstevnice. Druhá vzpomínka se vztahuje k zarostlé části prostoru, kde jsem v hustníkách prostě držel azimut a doufal, že ji trefím.

letošní výsledky, musel jsem se sklonit před Chrobákem.

Oba vzpomínané prostory jsem navštívil i letos. Hustníky pro jistotu prořezali, takže možnost vidět údolíčko a stojan byla skoro nulová, pokud jste nedoběhli až na místo a svah se stále propadá, nebo že by byla kontrola na špatném kameni?

29 kontrola v podání Chrobáka, ale ten má svou GPSku nestandartně vycentrovanou a sedí mu všude…

29 kontrola v mém (Bet) podání, snažím se moc neklesat, abych podél vodoteče doběhl ke kontole, jaké překvapení, když nad sebou nasvítím kontrolu…

10 kontrola v Mrázově podání, ten šel pro jistotu rovnou na horní kámen.

CESOM 2013 sprint

Betak — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:29:59 +0000

Following the sun, finally I run some snowless orienteering just in shorts and t-shirt! I am in my training block towards 10mila, Czech sprint championship and NORT, so I decided to train in last week and run just sprint distance on CESOM 2013. That was a wise decision, because I felt really tired during my Sunday slow long run and there was 20km long Long waiting for CESOM runners (with strong run by Jan Sedivy)…

Saturday sprint in Bratislava was nicely organized international event, but the course was too long. This would not matter if course would be bit trickier, but course setter give me too much time on routes to 3rd and 5th control to solve tricky part around Bratislava castle. So basically it was just running competition and finally I made some sprint nearly without error! Yes.

results
web pages

video STV2

Enjoy Bratislava:

Following the Snow!

Betak — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:43:37 +0000

There are many articles about winter preparation lately Fred, Jani, or Oystein. I feel like going against the crowd, because last week’s my selection of terrains do not follow the sun, but the snow.

KR TC in Barbate
Fortunately there was an exception and it was my trip to KR house in Barbate. I have travelled there just after Lipica open and made nice trainings in Barbate. In the beginning I struggle a lot with different terrain compare to Slovenia, but in the end I handle it. It was a nice period with my team mates and April boys!

Brno by night
After Barbate trip I came back to Brno for the last night training and this was a huge challenge in the snow and on the bit old map without routes. You can watch a nice 2D rerun shooting of this Brno by night closure.

SK Praga Easter TC
I spend last week on training camp with my Czech club SK Praga in terrains around Zvule one of the places with biggest amount of the snow, but still we made nice trainings, even it was sometimes difficult to reach training areas because of snow…

Night and snowy corridors:

1st April intervalls

1st April intervalls

Czech Cross Country Championship
I was running Czech cross country championship in the beggining of this camp and I was again 4th. This time far away from podium and some stories about my performances in Czech are here:

Czech and Slovak Inov8 team
results

Now is time to follow the snow again and I will start my trip towards 10mila TC tomorrow. We will have nice training group in Stockholm with French fries and hopefully also some snow covered but runnable terrains!

Lipica open 2013

Betak — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:03:38 +0000

Nice terrains full of analyses, just enjoy:

2D rerun long

2D rerun middle

And if you are still hungry, you can eat it like Alessio

Czech team price for best team:

Sunny, rainy stony but fast

Betak — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:27:31 +0000

Finally I am exploring nice and challenging terrains! I started this season by trip to New Zealand, but it was mainly about competing in World Cups and doing some basic running training afterwards.

I spend February in Czech and made some trainings in the snow around Brno and other parts of Czech. Those trainings were ok, but not a challenging and I was doing a lot of mistakes, OJ. Basically manage to make some basic runing work towards next season. Last test of my shape was race from this Saturday Vranovsky zleb:
9,2km / 31min / 240m climbing / about 3-4km in snow and mud results

Finally March is in the sign of real orienteering! Even the trees are leavesless and best terrains are still covered by the snow, I am enjoying running in Slovenia a lot! You can see some examples of trainings here:

And there will be two more trainings every day uploaded until Saturday to my maparchive!

2D rerun from our Thursday mass-start

Darkness is outside so it is a time to run middle from Lipica 2012 by night! Hopefully I will be still hungry for orienteering during next week, when I will visit Kalevan Rasti house in Barbate. It looks like Slavery house from KR training diary logs of other runners (just hard work all the time).