Polska and WOC

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

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

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

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

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

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

… 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.