Austrian Middle Championships: steep and stony Print
Written by Klaus Schgaguler   
Saturday, 22 September 2007 17:14

Map Austrian Middle ChampionshipsToday Austrian Middle Championships were held in the beautifull Osttirol near Lienz. The area was quite steep with some really nice stony parts. Difficult to orienter. I came here without any special expectations...

 

... but in the end I came 3rd, not that far from the great winner Martin Binder and the second Gernot Kerschbaumer.
If I should analyse my race with a few words I could say: just two small mistakes, 30 seconds each: quite ok technically, even if the mistake at the 2nd last was really stupid. But my fiscal shape was quite bad. I felt already so tired at the spectator control after only 15 minutes of running and I could not recover until the end. It was good for me that the terrain was quite steep so I didn't loose to much time on the second loop.

 

A long team competition with almost 1000m of climbing is awaiting us tomorrow.