wojciechkowalski

MP ski-O

2012-02-05T11:33:00.000-08:00

Polish and Czech Championship in ski orienteering (classic distance) took place in Jakuszyce. Jakuszyce is a village on the POL/CZE border, where in two weeks Justyna Kowalczyk will win with Marit Bjoergen. Nothing can stop us.

results

New friends

2012-02-03T12:58:00.000-08:00

Tyrving:

skiing,

orienteering,

running,

thinking meeting,

friends.

That's the way I like.

Knock out sprint

2012-01-15T12:43:00.000-08:00

Wroclaw Night O-fight round 3.
map
results

Wroclaw by night

2011-12-19T12:21:00.000-08:00

Tour de Biskupin

2011-12-04T13:30:00.000-08:00

fot. Sławomir Pawłowski/Agencja Gazeta

Heia!

2011-11-13T09:34:00.000-08:00

What the f... France

2011-08-11T11:29:00.000-07:00

Follow the Polish Team on WOC Facebook fan page.

O-Kaszebe analysis M14

2011-07-06T00:32:00.000-07:00

Analysis M14 from superbysior on Vimeo.

VROTS LOVE

2011-06-09T13:08:00.000-07:00

It's my city:)

2011-05-09T12:22:00.000-07:00

Whole Poland

Saturday was a big day in Poland. In the same time in 13 cities (Białystok, Gdynia, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Olsztyn, Poznań, Racibórz, Rumia, Sopot, Warszawa, Wrocław, Zamość) orienteerers organized a promotion: WHOLE POLAND RUNS WITH THE MAP.

It was success. First, because about 1700 person took part in it and I hope they understood what orienteering is. Second, because orienteerers from different part of the country did something very good... TOGETHER!

fot.Michał Michalski

Wnof round 3

2011-01-21T14:50:00.000-08:00

Scale 1:750, course 1km, my time 13’10”, no one said it will be easy. Results

2010

2011-01-14T04:46:00.000-08:00

My training time in 2010 was more or less the same as last two years. Nothing has change, except results. I was able to finish the CISM middle distance 1'02" after Thierry Gueorgiou and be faster than many other good runners. I will try to keep this different in future.

Wroclaw Night O-fight - round 2

2011-01-05T11:27:00.000-08:00

Second race of Wroclaw Night O-fight took a place in the Kuzniki estate, where is a lot of similar buildings. I was a course planner and I used a type of butterfly, which I first time meet on CISM 2010 in Kongsberg. This butterfly has four possibilities. I had a lot of mess on the start (intervall 30"), but runners had much more on their ways.

Results

If you want to see, how was on WNOF round1, watch it:

Wrocław Night O-Fight, WNOF 11, bieg na orientację from PZOS.tv on Vimeo.

/thanks to Marta&Wojtek and their new head camera/

the rest you had to imagine

2010-12-26T12:34:00.000-08:00

Before Christmas I did a O-training in a gym for Slask Wroclaw runners. There where two sprint races (interval and handicap start). The course has less than 200m. On the map was ONLY the course, the rest you had to imagine.

Wroclaw Night-O Fight

2010-12-15T07:37:00.000-08:00

I don’t like to fix holes, so on this 2,5 mounths gap on my blog I just put maps from this period.

Yesterday, as last winter, we started with Wroclaw Night O-Fight. This time it will be 5 races in the city area. Everywhere you can get by bus or tram. Just finish your job and join us. Start is always in Tuesday’s evening at 18.45.

This time it was a scorelauf race (mass start) with some mandatory legs. The park was small and easy, but 10-15cm of snow made it more difficult. It was hard to see the paths and controls (very small flags size). It was nice to see 77 person on the start, 20 more than last year.

2010-09-30T00:34:00.000-07:00

Yes, I've got my shape, but it was not enough for Dwojak and his Autumn performance. He beat me on Polish Championships night-O, by 4'. This race I was running with little energy sever - I muster power next distance.

On sunday PC long, I had a very good race and .... won Dwojak (1'25" before me). Grrr... I need revenge. Maybe on Word Cup in France!

results

Is it possible?

2010-09-23T04:09:00.000-07:00

After CISM I had a short brake: 1,5 week of relax training. Then I started to train strong, and after 2 weeks I'm ill. That's typical for me: my body is in good shape and I train a lot. My body says : take a brake. I say: quiet, speed up, go go. And then I'm ill. Illness is my natural training brake. After 6 days of sore throat, I lost 1kg and my shape. In next 6days I'm expecting to be back in 90% of my top shape. Is it possible?

I love relay

2010-08-20T05:08:00.000-07:00

Long distance wasn't so good for me as I planed. Of course I'm still very satisfied with 5th place, but my race could be better. Good that Thierry caught me on the 14th control and help to speed up my race. results

On the relay I was in excellent shape. It's a nice feeling when see someone before you, than you are with him, before him and after 2' you are looking for next plunder.I love relay:) results

Big congratulation for Polish Ladies Team for great bronze medal iiiiihhhhaaaaa...

Still second

2010-08-18T10:13:00.000-07:00

After not so good relay on the WOC (men and women 14th), Polish Team went straight to Kongsberg to take part in World Military Orienteering Championship. Yesterday was a middle distance. I had an excellent race and was 2nd! (24'31”).Terrain here is easier than in Trondheim, you can run with higher speed, so it fit me well. The winner was Thierry Gueorgiou FRA (23'29”), third Andreas Kyburz SUI(25'03”). more results

My last important medal was on JWOC 2002: silver. Eigth years in elit class, five in military...

Pessimism race

2010-08-14T03:34:00.000-07:00

From the second control everything went a little bit bad. Missing controls 2,3,6 made me angry. Than Marcus Maillegard caught me and helped me in making a good race (8-12th control; I ran after him with average distance of 21 meters?!). On the butterfly I did a next boom (50”): I lost Marcus and Pavlo Ushkvarok. I've reached spectator control alone. I was tired and angry. I thought my place is approximately 35th. I was 12th (still didn't know about it), so it was the race of my life! The last loop was really slow and I did a 3' mistake on 25th. My mind was broken.

I finished on the 18th place. It is my best place in the long distance.

Today during the breakfast I met an organizer, a guy who was staying at the 25th control during the long distance final. He remembered me. At first he heard a loud “ K...wa”, than twice I was close to the control, but still to far to see it. I spent there 3' -grrrr...

Here is one of the greatest analyzes of a gps race.

My map you can see here:

Still in the long game

2010-08-11T01:07:00.000-07:00

photo by worldofo.com

The race was nice. I feel terrain good, but I still can't find my best flow.

Around the second control I could see many white papers from emit. I try to punch and don't lose my paper. Of course I lost it. For 20" I was trying to find my paper. I check at least 15, but not my. Grrr... emit emit...

I can't wait the final match.

57"

2010-08-09T02:39:00.001-07:00

I have new PB. In today's race I lost on the finish line 57” to the winner on World Champs (21place). Last year on WOC sprint it was 1'18” (14place), two years ago 1'26” (26place). I don't know what give me that, but I just trying to find some good thing in my little place disappointing.

Technical my race was good. I took mostly better route choices (except first two controls, where I lost 20”). But where was the afternoon flow? Left me so easy after morning race....

Congratulation for Hania (19place), Monika (39), and … OK, for Wojtas also (42).

See you on long

First and only one sport camp

2010-07-23T06:37:00.000-07:00

Przygotowania do Mistrzostw Świata Seniorów 2010 from PZOS.tv on Vimeo.

For english translation klik the picture below:

Polish Champs 2010

2010-06-15T04:05:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we had a Polish Champs. It was funny, because sometimes not everything depends on you. The sprint distance I really messed up (4th place).Twice I took bad road choice!(see the map with medalists choice and my-brown color). I also lost some time on the 20th control, because some smart person put a point with flag, deep in the hedge. It was possible to see only sportident box from the top.

On the middle distance (2nd place)I was motivated and concentrated, but I still couldn't feel the map. Most of time I lost on the 16th control. At the end of the race I was sure, I'm out of medal position, but this is Poland and it's possible that someone can miss more than you.

Slask Wroclaw (Dwojak,Jasinski,Kowalski) won the relay second time in a row. I had a great race with 10" of mistakes (I don't know how I did it on this map). It was possible thanks to Dwojak's advices: attack 14th control much more to the right; to the 4th run to high and to far; great...

Promotion movie

2010-06-14T13:17:00.000-07:00

You are welcome to watch a promotion movie of Polish Orienteering

Orientacja Sportowa from PZOS.tv on Vimeo.

Cheap music with high flow

2010-05-28T07:28:00.000-07:00

When all the national teams are in Bulgaria on EOC, Polish Military team is in Kongsberg. We train in Norwegian terrain to WOC and Military WOC.

Why we didn’t go to EOC? … money. We had a choice: take part in WOC and EOC without any preparation, or be well prepared and take part in WOC.

Last weekend we took part in Pinselopet . It was fun. Maps from second and third day below. Now listening a song, which is my hit for this week and see some maps from our trainings.

O-weekend in Wroclaw

2010-04-19T11:54:00.000-07:00

...ssssnake and mass start.

Twice out of Poland

2010-04-14T11:56:00.000-07:00

Today I went with Kostya, Wojtas and Roman to the Polish/Czech border to train orienteering. It's just 100km from Wroclaw. That is not so far, if you are 100% sure that map is good (Czech map maker). Wojtas planned for us a nice course (8x mass start in three person). Two times we were out of Poland.

Am I red or green?

2010-04-11T10:22:00.000-07:00

Saturday, with my club Slask Wroclaw, I spend in Czech Republic. It was a small competition, 2&3 part of Východočesky Pohár. There was two races middle and sprint. You can watch sprint race here cz_sprint.kmz (open it through Google Earth). Am I red or green line?

losing is a lesson of winning

2010-03-27T13:19:00.000-07:00

The plan for Friday was to get from Wroclaw to the night relays on Spring Cup (830km), but on the German highway we had a problem with a car and we spend some time sitting on the roadside.

Of course we were late for night relay.

The classic day was good for me. I had a nice, individual race to the 22nd control, than caught me Daniel Hubmann. He was first 59'51", I was second 61'56", third Baptiste Rollier 62'09".

The relay was even better. Daniel, Olexandr, Mikhail did a great job and I could start first on 4th leg. From the start I was concentrated on my own race - never look back. On the spectator control, in the half of the course, I've heard that Kristiansand is 1' after me. It is not much time when Daniel Hubmann is on the course. He caught me on 24th. I didn't know if I should start my finish 1km before finish line. Now I know. Orion took 2nd place. It was really good race.

Nybro power nr.1!

photos from: www.springcup.dk

ice, she and me

2010-03-14T23:52:00.000-07:00

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

Thanks to młoda

Sunny week

2010-03-09T23:59:00.000-08:00

I spent a week in Karlskrona. I had good training session with Orion runners there. I also took part in PAN Kristianstad competition (night, relay, long) in Ahus. Where I was beaten, three times by Claus Bloch – grrrr…

In Karlskrona I stayed at my good friend Alek, so it was impossible to be bored. He lives in a very famous area , even Mohammad Ali lives in the same block.

Orion has a new runner from Poland: Hanna Wisniewska (Slask Wroclaw). She went from PAN Kristianstad. Now Orion Ladies Team will be stronger.

What I could do better in February?

2010-02-25T02:11:00.000-08:00

… go to Portugal for longer period. 10 days, 7 races, 7 trainings in space without snow. My shape wasn’t incredible, but I had good connection between running and thinking. In two races (POM day3 and NAOM sprint) I lost this control. In the rest of fife races I did a good job, especially in two WRE races (POM day2 and NAOM classic), and in my best race NAOM middle, where I was fast and had totally clear race! What a feeling. I will keep it in my mind.

Results POM and NAOM

green POM: maps_kowal

2010-02-18T04:55:00.001-08:00

fresh green

POM day4

POM day3

POM day2

POM day1

2010-02-12T14:59:00.000-08:00

The whole January I’ve spent in Wroclaw. It’s not typical situation for me as a polish runner and member of Polish Team, Polish Military team. Normally, in winter we have sport camp, after sport camp and then some sport camp (of course 99% of work we do there is running, the rest is orienteering 1%). I didn’t waste my time in Wroclaw. I was training hardly (January 48h). I was lucky because of snow. It was good condition for skiing and what was more important for me, I could do a lot of tough running in deep snow. It was great simulation of running in mountains in completely flat area. In first part of February I went to polish mountains on short sport camp. There I got an idea: snow labyrinth. We realized it, with my friend Wojtek, after one hour of digging. You can wach it in full HD:

Snow Orienteering Labirynth from Wojtek Dwojak

For full HD quality watch here Vimeo.

Now I’m sitting on London airport. Soon (in 7h) I have a plane to Portugal. With my O-friends from club Grupo Desportivo Quatro Caminhos, I will forget about snow, -10 degrees and start to train my real sport ORIENTEERING, because this winter I was only a runner.

The worst prizes of 2009

2010-01-13T00:57:00.000-08:00

It was in June: Polish Championships in long distance.

First place Robert Banach 89'01" , second me 90'27"

, third Richert Marcin 95'20"

Usually I don't care about a prize, but this time it looked as if someone was clearing old magazine. You can't just go to the shop and bay mouse with PS2 connection, becouse they stopped selling it couple years ago.

Polish Champs, the most important competition in the country...

... it would be better not to give anything. Shame.

Yes! CISM 2010

2010-01-09T12:32:00.000-08:00

All the O-soldiers should be happy. We will have orienteering CISM this year.

Date: 16-21.08.2010

Place: Kongsberg, Norway.

2009: four weeks of illness

2010-01-02T11:43:00.000-08:00

Results: Spring Cup - classic: 5th, 10mila: OK Orion 12th, Jukola: OK Orion 8th, WOC: sprint 14th, relay 6(9)th, Polish Champs: 5 medals, CISM: long 12th, middle 10th, relay 7th, Smalandskavlen: OK Orion 9th.

2009 was my best year. I’m satisfied of my shape. Especially that my life shape came on WOC and Military WOC (MWOC). I’m full of mental energy for next year.

I could change only one thing: 4 weeks of illness for 4 weeks of hard training. All I need is more health!

Around Wrocław

2009-12-31T10:51:00.000-08:00

How it is to train orienteering around Wrocław:

We organize Night Orienteering Fight. It will be five nights, sprint races in parks. Two are already behind us. I can see there many people which are separate from job or home TV, even small children (like my Antoni).

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We went 1,5h by car to get to the orienteering map and during training we ran with almost white sheet of paper to train direction.

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This map is also close (1h by car), but I can’t believe how bad was map maker (from Poznan). I did about 15’ mistakes. Course looks nice, but sometimes was so far from the reality. I would be better to train there without a map, just do 700m uphill in 89’ and go back home.

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I had also a funny training in my neighborhood without a map. I try to do force training in totally flat area. In effect I ran 67 times on 6-7 meters high river embankment. It was a 60’ middle speed training with target: don’t slow down on uphill running. Target sounds funny because it’s only about 10”, but I got tired.

Just ballast

2009-10-28T12:47:00.000-07:00

Natt-SM. I knew it will be a challenge: 90’ in detailed area, on scale 1:15000, but it was worse. I mean better:) Challenge grew up, when I saw this stony area. During the course I was thinking like amateur: find all controls and come alive. 28th place is not important, just alive.

Two days later THE LAST RACE of 2009 has come: Sista sträcka på Smalandskavlen. Won Kalevan Rasti. Orion take 9th place. Emil Wingstedt (Halden SK) on last leg did 67’34”- it’s real good. The rest is just ballast. You can see my GPS route here.

Polish Champs

2009-10-05T10:09:00.000-07:00

Last weekend were Polish Championships in night and relay. They were good, as for polish condition. For me the map was not enough detailed (especially green areas) and this dypoloms :)

DYPOLOM -should be dyplom

go-go (photo by picasaweb.google.pl/lublin.bno)

unexpected winner (photo by picasaweb.google.pl/lublin.bno)

when ladies are happy (photo by picasaweb.google.pl/lublin.bno)

hej Śląsk! (photo by kajo)

results

Eestii forest

2009-09-21T01:34:00.000-07:00

the highest Estonian point 318m

CISM is always fun. You go to some country as a soldier. You stay in a military unit and see strategical places, that normally are hidden. Estonia is a small country (1/40 of Polish population) but their military units doesn’t remember Soviet times, Polish still remember.

On long distance my brain wasn’t in the top shape. I made mistake on 1’20” on the 5^th control. There caught me Matthias Merz on 2’. Then I could use 75% of my brain and 100% of my legs. On the way to 24^th control we went straight (two hilly, two green), we should go around from the right and be 1’45” earlier on the finish. Matthias was bronze medalist (80’47”) in this race. I was 2’ after him on 10^th place. The BIG winner was Daniel Hubmann 76’19”. Francois Gonon got silver 80’02”.

one more time /photo by www.mil.ee/ Two days later on THE REAL middle distance my brain and legs were better co-ordinated. Running only by myself I reached 12^th position. Without mistakes (1’40”) I could be 4^th. Yes, I know: “could”, but this is step up for me. I CAN PLAY IN EXTRA LIGE sometimes :)

Banach heh /photo by www.mil.ee/ Relay were in the same terrain as middle. It wasn’t easy. Swiss, Russia, Finland were on the top. Poland took 7^th place. I had, one more time, very good race and a nice fight with Andrey Khramov at the end of a race.

all /photo by www.mill.ee/

Banquet : O my God! It was delicious. Greetings for all the crazy dancing team ;P

results

maps long, middle, relay

new PB

2009-09-07T11:06:00.000-07:00

I took part in street race ("Bieg Solidarności") in Wroclaw. I won with time 15'36 on 5,2km, so my best time on 5km is now 15'00". This mean that I'm in live shape. It's a nice feeling, to know all I have to care during o-race is technics.

It's 9 days to Military World Orienteering Championship.

Polska and WOC

2009-08-27T12:52:00.000-07:00

sprint team

Sprint was a great day for Polish Team. On qualification all our runners (three boys, one girl) got to the final. In final race I was 14^th, Dwojak 22th and our young girl Hania was 34^th. Those are real good results.

animal

Relay went unusual. Dwojak on the first leg had great race (came six), then Banach lost a little, but then I had good race and on the spectator control I heard we could be six. I counted on my fingers how many teams were before us and I counted around nine. After finish they told me we are six and explain why. First time I get a diploma on WOC (6^th place).

first time

Long Final was too long for me (29^th place). After control 22^nd I lost my power. The good thing is that to control 22 (3/4 of the course) I had alone race with great speed and technique. This gave me good feeling for future.

relay team

Through all WOC days we had wonderful fans from Poland. First time I felt, that someone real love us. It’s much easier to give 110% of power, if you hear Polska! Polska! Polska!

real fans

maps you can see here (by RouteGadget)

Death group

2009-08-18T02:54:00.000-07:00

Long Q went good. First 2/3 of the course I was running alone with good speed and technique. Then caught me Daniel Hubmann. I finished on 10th possition. In my group “men A” from a winner to the 15^th runner was 3’22” (men B 8'54"; men C 6'31"). I think it’s very tight. See you in the final day.

Results

Old times: JWOC 2001

2009-08-13T04:12:00.000-07:00

It was in Miskolc. We were very young (now we are just young:) I hope I’m still half crazy than I was 2001. It was good times.

peeper

all happy

naket lady

relay finish

podium

Three weeks on high

2009-08-02T11:35:00.000-07:00

We have finished high altitude sport camp in Switzerland. Like year ago, we went to Sankt Moritz and like year ago, it was extremely nice. Mostly we trained running, but we had couple of orienteering trainings and some competition. Thanks to Carolina, Ines, Matthias, Marc, Baptiste and Fabian that we could train with you, it was great lesson.

snow slope from superbysior on Vimeo.

Eating or tearing maps

2009-07-15T13:00:00.000-07:00

When my son was 8 months old, he has got first orienteering lesson. Now he is much older - 10 months, but still not interested about orienteering, except eating or tearing maps.

Wojciech Kowalski i jego lekcja orientacji from superbysior on Vimeo.

WC Oslo Middle +Long

2009-06-27T01:26:00.000-07:00

When we left Poland there was only rain. In Oslo all the time is sun. It’s too good weather for running, too hot. I expected extreme terrain. I was surprised. It wasn’t so bad. All the course I was running alone and I did only 1’25” mistakes. I’m really proud of me.

On long distance I had a lot of alone (group 2-3 runners) fun to 21th control. Than caught me a 10 person group and I changed sport from orienteering to cross country running.

After a mounth full of competition I'm exhausted. Now it's time for 5weeks of recharging batteries and restore power.

Polish Champs

2009-06-26T02:56:00.000-07:00

… were quite nice. On the SPRINT distance map and terrain were good, but the course planner didn’t remember about different rout choice, what is one of the main things on sprint.

MIDDLE distance was OK, sometimes too easy. The speed was decisive in the race. But I want other challenge: technique. So I go abroad to WC in Salo or to WC in Oslo. This are real orienteering lessons!

CLASSIC race was very interesting! Big congratulation for organizers. They didn’t afraid to do a course for 89’ (15,5km) for a winner. For me it’s normal, but for Polish reality not. You can see replay (.kmz open in Google Earth) from this race here now or will be there soon.

On first two races I had no mistake:) than on classic I did 2’. During whole weekend I was able to keep good speed. Good, mean enough for polish O-level. Generally I’m in a small physical hole. I know it’s good for me, because top will come on August/September.

One more time

2009-06-18T01:30:00.000-07:00

Good Lord!

The gpsseuranta.net from Jukola is great. During the race I didn’t know that so many things was happening around me. From the start to 9th control, I was thinking I ran alone, couple of seconds after William Lind. But now I see that there was mix of runners. I was enough to do some small mistake (me on 1,2 control) or run little bit shorter (keep more strait line – me on 3 control) and you could be with other runners.

I can’t believe in that. I have to see it one more time.

3 times kicked

2009-06-12T10:59:00.000-07:00

Word Cup (NOC middle and sprint). Finish terrain didn’t disappoint me on middle distance. I expected challenge and got it (66th place). On sprint qualification I was pushing very strong, I did only 5” mistake and I was missed the final by 14”. It’s not nice to be happy of your race and be out of final. Yesterday I took part in Forrsa Games and one more time my bottom kicked – 4’12” behind first. Great.

around Miskolc

2009-06-08T07:36:00.000-07:00

I spend with Polish Team six days around Miskolc. We did couple of interesting trainings (you can see it below). During two, hard days I did 46 km in the forest. Thanks to Czech Team for opportunity to take part in their WOC qualification race to classic distance. The course had 16,3km. In real I did 21,3km and I was missing a lot. Better now than during WOC. You can see Google Earth replay of the relay race. There are four runners from Polish Team. They’re running on different legs and teams: Maciek Grabowski/green dot, Wojtek Kowalski/red, Alek Bernaciak /blue, Mateusz Wensław/purple. You only need to click on H-relay.kmz and open it by Google Earth.

boring or exciting

2009-04-30T11:30:00.000-07:00

Lonely, fast running on the road is boring, but lonely, fast running in the park with o-map is exciting! (even if I know the area of the park). Full speed 8x3' (with 3' brake) was good for: exercise of speed up in short time after the start (I always have problem with this thing on the sprint competition) and changing speed during the race (reading the map-middle speed; only running-full speed).

In April I did 32hour of training . In this running 19h, orienteering 8h and other activities 5h.

Men with the gun can’t count!

2009-04-21T00:16:00.000-07:00

On Friday I took part in Elitserien sprint. I had a nice speed, but missed to much (30” on 5th point and 15” on 7th). In the 8th point caught me the winner Andrei Hramov (Hiisirasti).

foto from foton.springolle.se/10mila2009/

Than GREAT and BIG 10mila! I ran first leg (you can see in the left lower corner of picture, how I almost fell down). Runners were standing on the field in front of their maps, speaker sad "15 seconds to the start", and after 3 seconds, we can hear starting shot! Good I was keeping my map in hand, otherwise people from my back couldn’t give a chance to take it. I suppose some of runners had this kind of situation and they are very angry for a men with the gun. I finished 8th 50” after first Gernot Kerschbaumer (Helsingin Suunnist.). In OK Orion nine runners had a very good races, but one missed and we were 12th. Congratulations OK Kristiansand!

Who let the dogs out?

2009-04-13T09:51:00.000-07:00

Todays Elitserien final was like a dog race. In 3'20" to the forest went 40 runners (normally on middle distance should go 3,5 person). I was feeling great in it and finished on the 7th possition. Mikhail Mamleev was 4th, Olexandr Kratov 6th, so it was really good day for OK Orion.

40 from 237

2009-04-12T07:45:00.000-07:00

Elitserien: if we have 237 runners and 40 get to the final, it have to be tight. You lost 3'21" to the winner and you are out. Marcin Richert lost 3'20" and he is in (on 40th place:). I had a nice race (2'28" after winner) , but without William Lind it could be hard. Tommorow is a chasing start and I like it.

results

Swedish Lighthouses

2009-04-11T07:17:00.000-07:00

Today I ran Hassleholms classic. I took it with 3/4 of the power. I want to be really ready tommorow. All the runners had the same, rest idea, so I could be second. As a price I got a book about Swedish Lighthouses, great!?...

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7-manna

2009-04-10T08:41:00.000-07:00

I came to Sweden for 11 days and 6 start. First was 7-manna. I took first leg and came 7th, 31" after first Fredrik Johansson (IFK Lidingös). Big suprise did Paweł Tadejewski (Polish Junior? Team 2) - he came 17" before me -congratulations! OK Orion went very good and after seven legs we finished on 3place:)

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March

2009-04-06T11:22:00.000-07:00

First time in my live I’ve been in Norway for orienteering reason.

Polish Team -> Halden SK.

Then we went to Spring Cup and there luckily we didn’t see snow.

good for skiing

hot lake

white shit

narrow road

Halden

flow

In March I did 31hour of training . In this running 8h, orienteering 17h and other activities 6h. I was ill. Nine, long, sad days in bed.I lost 3kg.

The end of February I spent in Portugal with my new friends from Grupo Desportivo 4Caminhos. This orienteering club is like big family. I did there great work, far away from snow.

sun

GD4C

like in summer

forest

team

February

2009-03-15T12:36:00.001-07:00

In February I did 43 hour of training (40h: low intensity 29h, middle 7,6h, high 3,3h). In this running/skiing 28h, orienteering 11h and other activities 3,3h (swimming, gym).
Orienteering in snowy Poland … Eeee. Orienteering in sunny Portugal … Yes!

WOC'08 memories

2009-02-16T12:05:00.000-08:00

If you forgot how it was in Czech Republic, you can bring back memories,
thanks to Sławek Cygler.

full/empty feeling

2009-02-11T12:19:00.000-08:00

I like trainings that discharge my batteries. I go out full of energy, and I come back empty. Two days ago I did a cross training in the forest. 3’ in low, then 3’ in middle intensity and around like this through 90’ in a steep mountain terrain with snow. After 90 minutes my legs were empty of energy for uphill running. I like this feeling.
Here, some of my night trainings:

Flying lesson

2009-02-08T12:02:00.000-08:00

Do you want to see how to fly in a forest?

Przelotem from Wojtek Dwojak on Vimeo

/Runner: Wojciech Dwojak, Camera: Michal Dwojak/

Ps. We are working on new project. Soon you will see the result...

January

2009-01-31T13:14:00.000-08:00

In January i did 56,7 hour of training (47,3h: low intensity 38h, middle 8,8h, high 0,4h). In this running/skiing 43h, orienteering 4,3h and other activitis 9,5h (swimming, biking, floorhokey, gym). I'm glad.

Night-O ninja

2009-01-24T11:31:00.001-08:00

Night-O is always little challenge for me. Especially in the fog, when you can see 10-15 meters. On this course I couldn’t find only first point.
Two weeks ago I had night-O in -17 Celsius. Ninja is ready:

friends

2009-01-19T11:51:00.000-08:00

My friends and me on sport camp in Jagniatkow.

friends /photo by wojtas/

shape before 55

2009-01-12T05:52:00.000-08:00

Hello in 2009 and I wish you a pleasant flight through next 365 days. I have been writing this blog for more than year. Through this time I did couple of good trainings. Now some statistics: 454 hours of training = 274h (60%) running without map + 94h (21%) orienteering + 86h (19%) other activities. When I compare it with three last seasons, I’m training more and more. I hope, I’ll get the top shape before will be 55 …

CISM goal

2008-10-10T04:46:00.001-07:00

2x/// (photo by banan)
Couple of days before Word Military Orienteering Championship, we came to Lithuania for short technical sport camp. Good that we did it, becouse terrain here is hard: not so good runability, you always have to avoid something - complicated to keep direction, a lot of small hills/depresions.
On the middle race I was crashed, mostly by illness (last two days I spent in bed with short breaks for trainings and meals). But Polish team didin't disappointed: Dwojak 11th, Banach 23th.
One day later (classic distance) I felt almost very good. I have a smart race with good speed. The gap between Therry 72'29" and me 78'10" is small, just 5'41". I've never been so close on classic race. 9th place is great. Dwojak 12th, Banach 19th.
The relay race, as always in nowadays, was very tight. My team (1.Dwojak, 2.Banach, 3.Kowalski) did a good job and it was enough for 9th place. Won Russia.
Russia dominated this championships . During price giving ceremony, only one time, we heard France national anthem, the rest was Russian, Russian, Russian…
results

2008-09-12T14:03:00.000-07:00

small kowal

Few days to fast, but he is OK. Antoni:)

RO ARMY

2008-08-29T23:43:00.000-07:00

Romania, 1950m
Orienteering in Romania: 2 competition and 2 trainings. Fun: quads, tenis. I had also mountain trip. Before that, woman in information office told me: wacht aut on bears, don't go there alone. I thought: ye ye talking for tourist... but we meet a bear, happily we were still in the bus. Than on 1950m above see level we saw athletics track. Romania is surprising.

Now I'm here (Silvaplana). It's divinely.

king

1 + 3

2008-08-23T09:50:00.000-07:00

I left home for 28 days. One week in Romania on military competition, than three in Switzerland on sport camp. Romania is hot (weather) and sweet (fruits).

o-cowboy

big fruits

garbage forest (photo by Wozik)

important military competition (photo by Wozik)

Training holiday in Stutthof

2008-08-16T13:21:00.000-07:00

WOC relay

2008-08-16T13:01:00.000-07:00

Better later, than never:
The relay was great. The courses were not so easy, but on each leg there was tight fight between top runners. Men British Team was first. It was nice to see them on the top –usually I could see there Russia or Sweden.
Poland took 12th place: 1. Dwojak 21 (4’43” after first), 2.Banach 14 (5’19”), 3.Kowalski 12 (10’19”) and I’m satisfied of that result. My race was physically great. I ran with Lukáš Barták and Misha Mamleev. They are really strong for me. Not like in the middle day, when I felt only heavy legs. Technically I lost 1’ on 15th point (green area close to the point, where I did un necessary loop, looks for me like yellow area with green stripes), so quite OK.
Congratulation for the organizers, as I expected, they did really good Champs. Special applause for TV coverage! It’s funny that Czech Republic is so close to Poland and it’s so different.

real challenge

2008-07-19T09:46:00.000-07:00

Since the middle distance in Kiev I’ve been waiting for the middle in Stara Ves. It took my all energy for preparation. Everything was because the middle WOC will be…
…and I did a lot of good work, but it was hard to see the results of that.
On the qualification race, I ran very safe. I missed only 1’ on 9th point (I took wrong direction and there was one, big root stock more!). From 13th I ran with Anders Nordberg, he started 2’ behind me. All the race my legs were stiff, I breathed very hard, was tired (I don’t know after what?), and ran slow, but the aim of this race was done. I qualified from 11th place.
4,5 hour later final race has started. I took a look on the map and my smile grew up: this was real challenge. In the first part of the course (the challenge) I tried to run less and think twice. I lost only 1’ on the 9th point (in my opinion the point was in strange place, but I’m going to check it this year). To the second radio control (12th point) I did a great race and lost almost 3’40” to Thierry. Second part of the course was much easier (but still not easy). On 14th point I did 1’ mistake and some smaller on 18th 20” (from 17 I started to run like on 18-19). On all afternoon race I felt not so good physically, the same as in the morning. Why? I don’t know. Maybe it wasn’t my day. I hope this day will come this century.

You have to watch it!

2008-07-14T09:30:00.000-07:00

WOC has started. On sprint qualification the course was very easy and because of that running speed was crucial. I finished 11th in the heat A( 11” and would be out of the final). It looks tight, but in sprint distance everywhere is tight.
Final race was much more interesting. There were couple of legs with different road choices ( points 1,5,8,10,11,14,15 ). I started like a lazy snail. I lost 22” to the first point and I did no mistake. I didn’t plan to win this leg, but 22” was definitely too much. Next legs from 1-14 snail went with a decent speed. From 14th I’ve turned on my rocket engine. All the course I’ve taken good road choices, except 14th, where I took right, but I should run from the left side. I finished on 26th place, 1’26 behind the extremely strong winner Andrey Khramov. I’m 50% satisfied, as always it could be better.
On Česká Televize 4 you can see transmission (67’) from the final race. You have to see it! If you can’t watch it in Opera web browser, try with Explorer or Firefox.

Fresh news

2008-07-08T12:02:00.000-07:00

You can get some new informations here

Finnish course planers are the best

2008-06-17T13:37:00.000-07:00

Jukola was and still is the best relay for me. Not only because starts there more teams, but also because the course planner can do more interesting "individual" relay. This is the relay where you really have to think by your self. Here you can find some point with a group of runners and be sure that if this one is not yours, yours is more than 100m (10mia:(.
Orion was 27th. It's not so bad- relay was tuff. I'm happy with my race. Hard Finnish forest and I could find my place there. In 85'34” I can run 14km and lost only 5'46” to the best guys. Yes, this guys that take medals on WOC, EOC, WC.
You can see my route choices here. First choose leg (7th) than choose *runners (those with * wrote their route choices).
You can find more fun here. GPS tracks of the best runners

grrr...

2008-06-10T10:57:00.000-07:00

Relay Polish Championchips won Flota Gdynia (grrrr...) /Grabowski, Nowak, Richert/. Śląsk Wrocław were second /Sokalski, Dwojak, Kowalski/. Competition was good, (not great - sprint, not heavenly - middle), just good.
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Polish middle like in Czech

2008-06-07T09:31:00.000-07:00

Great terrain and great map. This was real Czech middle distance. This kind of race is rare in Poland. We are used to easy reces and this time we got something difficult. The winner made about 5' mistake. I was second with 7,5'. Third runner did about 8,5'. It means the best men don't know how to use their physical power in hard terrain. To learn that, we need years, but Word Champs are in 5 weeks...
results from Polish Champs

Have I punched it or not?!

2008-06-06T13:45:00.000-07:00

Polish Champs in sprint distance were in Wroclaw ZOO. Because there were so many people, I felt like on PWT or WC. Probably they didin't know what we were doing there and what it's orienteering. They just came to see the animals.
I was the fastest on this competition (39" better than the winner), BUT:) after the finish I realized that I don't have 13th point! I must have been very tired at that moment of the course - I don't remember I punched it or not. Girl that was looking after the point is sure I punched it. How it was real? I will never know.

EOC relay

2008-06-03T12:45:00.000-07:00

Polish Team was 24th (18'35" after Russia). This race we don't add to good races. I'm little happy, because we had a chance to run in strange tarrain - 70% of the corse was on the sand (dunes, desert).

EOC middle Q and F

2008-05-31T09:21:00.001-07:00

EOC sprint

2008-05-26T10:26:00.000-07:00

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hot Poland

2008-05-13T06:32:00.000-07:00

It was my first competition in Poland this year. I went 500km to north, to Gdynia and what was there? The same as at home: great weather like in hot summer. Unfortunately seawater is still very cold - it wasn't easy to take a bath.

Greetings from Wrocław

2008-05-08T13:11:00.000-07:00

This picture was done during the competition Euro-Orienteering 2006 in Lądek Zdrój. There I met my first, personal fun club. Till now only one, but the best!

Welcome to Vizovice

2008-05-05T12:35:00.000-07:00

What's interesting in Vizovice? Nothing special, except tasty icecream in the vilige center and big areas of Czech forest. I trained a lot with Polish Team group. After 4days, I have enought of steep mountains. I'm comming back home to Wrocław. There is flat everywhere.

Goog fight, good night

2008-04-30T05:40:00.000-07:00

It was good fight and my first time in ten best teams on 10mila:)

Moravian Qualification

2008-04-15T00:13:00.000-07:00

There were a lot of good runners On Moravian Championships. Polish Team had qualification races to EOC, WOC and Military WOC there. On Friday morning (middle) won Bernaciaksson. I was 1’34” after him. First part of this race was hard – steep hillsides with rocky fields. Sprint (5,4km!) was very easy and very fast. Smola beat me 2’02” – it’s to much:( Long – 16.5km in 88’ with 1’ mistake. On relay Dwojak and Richert had a good races (like on Spring Cup), but this time I also was good:) 3xgood=7th place.

Report z March

2008-04-08T13:15:00.000-07:00

Sum of the training in March 37h53'.
In this: running 19h07', orienteering 14h43' (16x training + 2x competition), other sports 4h03' (rollerski, fitness, basketball, football).
Intensity (running+orienteering): low 65%, middle 21%, high 14%.
It was good month:)

O-fun on žebříček C

2008-04-06T01:23:00.000-07:00

I spent Friday/Saturday in the Czech Republic. A few kilometres behind the Polish border. On Friday: two good trainings on the map (98' and 50'). On Saturday: competition - in the morning middle, in the afternoon sprint. Sprint distance: half of the course was in Poland, and half in Czech Republic - first time I took part in something like this.

Spring Cup 2008

2008-04-03T02:11:00.000-07:00

As you can see, sometimes I’m going to write in English. I hope that because of this, the site will be visited by twice more visitors, let’s say: not four, but eight. NIGHT - I treated this run as a training. After twelve hours which I spent in a car, it’s hard to ask for more from myself. But I ran, because every night training is very valuable for the Polish competitor. CLASSIC - I am very satisfied with myself. I was aware what I was doing in the forest (deliberate and clever run). I didn't manage to slow down only before point 21 and one minute said bye, bye... RELAY - The team was great. Except me . Dwojak, Richert and Włodarczyk ran very well, all the time holding close to the top. I spoiled at the butterfly. On its longest branch I started to run in the opposite direction. I have no idea how I could miss the digit by the point. I knew that the butterfly required thinking and I did. About 500m in front of the butterfly, I spent few moments for the studying how I should run it. That time I had to look wrong. It’s a pity that by something like that I spoiled our whole relay race, because the rest of the course I went as the storm.

Raport ze stycznia

2008-03-05T11:58:00.000-08:00

Suma treningu 54h37'. W tym biegania 47h07' (niska int.81%, średnia 16%, wysoka 3%) oraz innego treningu 7h30' (sprawnosc, palant, koszykowka, rower, basen, ćwiczenia PNF). Trening technicznego 2h02'. Zawodów bno brak:(

Raport z lutego

2008-03-02T10:49:00.000-08:00

Technicznie to był piękny miesiąc, jednak troszkę się pod koniec pochorowałem i nie trenowałem tyle, ile bym chciał. W sumie w lutym trenowałem 30h47'. W tym czystego biegania 28h41' (niska intensywnosc 64%, srednia 21%, wysoka 15%), oraz 2h06' innego treningu (basen, nartorolki, cwiczenia PNF). Zawody (7startów) i treningi techniczne zajęły mi 10h52'.

Trofeo Ori-Estareja night+classic

2008-02-28T01:32:00.001-08:00

W sobotę po południu, biegałem swój pierwszy w życiu nocny sprint. Szału nie było, ale doświadczenie ciekawe. W niedzielę dostałem mocno po uszach. Klasyk był super: długi, ciekawy, wymagający. Do 9 pkt. byłem mistrzem, ale potem "znów ktoś na rozum zaciągnął mi zasłonę" i na 10pkt. poczułem się jak junior. W tamtych czasach takie 5-10' zaćmy się zdarzały, ale teraz... senior z 5-letnim stażem... uuUUuu... Obóz w Portugalii zakończyłem zejściem na dno. Ogólnie jednak odbiję się mocno nogami i wypłynę na powierzchnię, bo taki obóz, na świetnych mapach w trudnym lesie, ze świetną obstawą na zawodach, w świetnej ekipie i w świetnej formie, przynosi tylko REWELACYJNE EFEKTY!

Trofeo Ori-Estareja /middle WRE/

2008-02-22T02:09:00.000-08:00

Oglądaliście piątkowy trening? No to teraz zobaczcie zawody w takim samym terenie. Teren ten sam tylko mapa inaczej zrobiona. Moim zdaniem lekko bardziej dokładna. Ach Ci Czesi (autorzy map), jak nie wywiną jakiegoś numeru, to nie byliby sobą. Osobiście czuje się zrobiony w jajko - oczywiście na własne życzenie. Po treningu widziałem, że na założonej prędkości dam sobie rade technicznie, jak będę zwracał uwagę na ważniejsze (większe, bardziej widoczne) elementy. Wbiłem to sobie do głowy jeszcze przed samym startem. Często tak robie, aby lepiej zaprogramować organizm, na to co ma zrobić podczas biegu. Zwykle przynosi to dobry efekt, ale nie w momencie, gdy te założenia trzeba zmieniać zaraz po starcie. Nie jestem zawodnikiem, który obmyśla taktykę podczas biegu, rozmyśla, rozważa. Jak biegnę to działam w systemie ping-pong, czyli jest bodziec to reakcja sama przychodzi. Nie zastanawiam się za wiele, bo bazuje na wyuczonych reakcjach. Jak wskoczyłem na trasę to nie ogarnąłem tej drobnicy. Nie wiedziałem za co złapać, z czego zaatakować. Wszystko było takie małe, zwykle odrzucam takie pierdoły. Pozostały, więc dwie opcje zatrzymać się i doczytać wszystko (zatrzymać i pospacerować! -przecież to dobre na trening) lub kierunek+odległość i jakoś go znajde (a jednak nie znajdywałem tak szybko). Nie mam co więcej gadać. Przeczytajcie co napisałem w analizie po zawodach. Wojtek Dwojak lepiej rozegrał ten bieg. Może dlatego, że jest spokojniejszy, wiecej myśli w lesie, szybciej dostraja się do terenu. Tak ,czy tak, cały ten middle był git. Thierry Gueorgiou pewnie ma taki git 2x w tygodniu, co przynosi mu spokój i myślenie, o jakim nikt z Polski nawet nie słyszał. Ja chce 10 takich trudnych middli w roku, czy to wiele Święty Mikołaju?

Mapy treningowe z Portugalii

2008-02-21T10:19:00.000-08:00

Mam tu kilka map z treningów. Można sobie poogladać, jak się ktoś nudzi. Polecam szczególnie mapę Dunas de Cantanhede. Ten piątkowy trening miał być wstępem do zawodów Trofeo Ori-Estareja, odbywających się w weekend. No i był bardzo ciekawą rozgrzewką przed sobotą (middle distance WRE). Mapa bardzo szczegółowa, dużo drobnych elementów, ale do ogarnięcia dla mojego umysłu. Pomyślałem więc, że jutro bedą fajne zawody w sam raz dla mnie, ale... o tym jutro.

Biežki w Jakuszycach

2008-02-19T11:47:00.000-08:00

Wybrałem się dziś na narty biegowe. To dla mnie taaaaaaaaka przyjemność. Śniegu nie brakuje, więc sobie nie żałowałem i przez 2h jeździłem, jeździłem i jeździłem, aż się zmęczyłem:) było pieknie.

POM day.4

2008-02-18T13:02:00.000-08:00

W czwartym dniu zawodów organizator przygotował dla nas dwie niespodzianki. Pierwsza to w białe miejsca na mapie, trzeba było wstawic sobie lekko zielony kolor,a w te lekko zielone, mocno zielone. Dobrze przebieżny las widac na zdjeciu za zawodnikiem?! Jak dla mnie to jakoś go zasłaniają, te prawie 2 metrowe, gęsto rosnące chaszcze (tym razem nie kłujące:). Dzięki temu realizacja takich przebiegów, jak na pkt.1,2,3,4 i kilka innych, wymagała od zawodnika świetnego utrzymania kierunku, podczas kluczenia pomiędzy krzakami. Druga niespodzianka to skala mapy. Niby 1:10.000, a jednak 1:15.000 (ktoś się poprostu pomylił! lub zapomiał powiedzieć zawodnikom przed startem!). Zamiast 5,2km trasy, mieliśmy 7,8km. Długość trasy to jednak nic, moge robić kilometry, ale jak tu czuć odległość? Na szczęście mózg doswiatczonego seniora jest giętki i automatycznie dobiera odległości na podstawie przestrzeni pomiędzy innymi elementami terenu. Na trasie tylko raz świadomie starałem się wyczuć odległość (myślałem, aby po 200m od pkt.20, zbiec ze ścieżki w odpowiednim momencie) i mi się nie udało, szukałem zawcześnie. Świadomie byłem na 1:10.000, ale podswiadomie moja głowa widziała, obliczała i szacowała, wcale nie potrzebując mnie do tego. To się nazywa Orienteering-IQ. Mam jeszcze jedna ciekawostkę: zakreskowane na czerwono tereny na mapie to obszary zamieszkiwania kameleonów:)serio...

Bieg w Jarocinie

2008-02-16T06:18:00.000-08:00

Dystans około 8,4km. W zeszłym roku pobiegłem 27'16", w tym 28'08". Spóźniłem się na start (interwałowy, co 30") i tyle co wysiadłem z auta, założyłem kolce i 3,2,1 start! Ogólnie szkoda dnia na spóźnianie się i szkoda zdrowia na bieganie bez rozgrzewki.