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Austrian Relay Championships: Silver with a nice taste |
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Written by Klaus Schgaguler
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Monday, 21 September 2009 11:33 |
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Last weekend i wanted to participate in an Austrian Cup competition on Saturday and in Austrian relay championships on Sunday. But it came a little different. After a hard training week i felt a little sick on Friday evening and so i decided to skip Saturdays competition to fully focus on relay. Still the feeling on Sunday was not the best, but i knew the team was counting on me and so i had to compete. Chris on first leg and Tobi on second did a great job and sent me out in third place with some minutes from the leaders but with a assuring margin on the 4th team. So the plan was not to take any risks and try to avoid mistakes in a technically demanding terrain. My race went well, I had great fun running on 1:7500 map scale in a forest with so many details. A little unexpected in the end I was able to pass Martin Pongratz and we won silver. A great day for our young (well, maybe not including myself :-) team.
Competition Map.
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Last Updated on Friday, 25 September 2009 10:34 |
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Written by Klaus Schgaguler
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Sunday, 03 February 2008 07:15 |
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 Last Sunday I decided for an alternative training. Together with some friends we wanted to go up on Slovenia's highest mountain, the Triglav (2864m) by mountaineering ski. I personally think doing mountaineering skiing is a good training especially for basic endurance and strength. And it is a really nice addition to pure running in winter time, most of the times in out in some beautiful place.
Like it was this time. Because of the almost 2000m of climb we had to start quite early. The first 1600m of climb was supposed to be nice quite gentle slopes with nice skiing. The last 350m of climb to the top are is a quite easy via ferrata, at least in summer time and good conditions.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 02 February 2008 23:42 |
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Written by Klaus Schgaguler
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 08:35 |
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On Saturday I had my first kind of competition (or full speed O-training) for this year in Burgau near Fürstenfeld. The SO (south-east) cup is a series of small orienteering competitions in the southern part of Austria (and sometimes also in the neighbouring countries) in the winter and beginning spring. For me it is always a good possibility to do full speed training on prepared courses. More information on SO cup can be found on the OLCG Homepage. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 31 January 2008 10:29 |
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Italian Championships: horrible performance |
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Written by Klaus Schgaguler
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009 21:51 |
The first article after quite a long time will be about my horrible performance last weekend. The Italian championships where my main goal in the fall. Even if i felt quite tired after a hard WOC week, preparation went well and i was sure to have fast legs. I was very confident when starting my race as last man in men elite class. But the forest was not as i expected. Visibility was quite reduced in many parts and runability was not so good because of steep valleys and tough undergrowth. I missed a lot already on the first controls and could not find the right flow. After this, some good parts alternated with huge mistakes. On the last loop my speed dropped and I felt tired. Maybe the worst competition in the last years. In the finish I was more than 10 min behind the winner Marco Seppi. My teammate Michele Tavernaro was second and Mik Caraglio 3rd. Congratulations!
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 September 2009 21:57 |
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Written by Klaus Schgaguler
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Sunday, 03 May 2009 18:08 |
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 Nice long weekend in Regensburg and good competitions for me. I ran relay on friday, middle on saturday and long on sunday and i skipped the night sprint in town on saturday night. It went quite well. Together with Sandro and Matthias, we did quite clean races and won a very fast relay. The middle distance was held on a tricky map called "Rocks Paradise". The map scale was 1:7500 in order to keep it readable in a nice stony place. And as expected we had a hard time to find the controls in the middle of 1000s of large and small stones. I did just two small mistakes and managed to win the WRE some seconds ahead of David Schneider and Gernot Kerschbaumer. Todays long distance was very demanding physically. 13 km and more than 800m of climbing with some long and steep uphill parts made it hard for all partecipants. After 1 hour of running i realized that my preparation is still not good enough to run a long distance competition at the speed i want to. David killed the race and won with almost 6 min. I was second just some seconds ahead of Gernot.
Results
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Last Updated on Sunday, 03 May 2009 20:49 |
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