Polish Champs 2010

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

You are welcome to watch a promotion movie of Polish Orienteering

Orientacja Sportowa from PZOS.tv on Vimeo.

Cheap music with high flow

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

...ssssnake and mass start.

Twice out of Poland

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?

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

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