NAOM 09 - Alter do Chão

Last weekend i've participated in the "Norte Alentejano O'meeting" a competition that is getting popular year after year.
The terrains were a mixture of very fast areas and some very tricky rock details and almost all course in open areas.

Saturday we had a middle distance (5,4km). I've made a good race but with some time lost in small errors.
Saturday night we had a sprint in the village of Alter do Chão. Unfortunatelly on the way to the second control I've fallen in the middle of the road =/ My leg was not fine and i had to give up =/
After some treatments and ice, Sunday morning i've done a "test drive" to see if my leg could run the 12,5Km of the long distance and everything went ok!

MAP (LONG)


RESULTS (HE) Middle:
1 - Michal Smola 31:27
2 - Tiago Aires 34:11
3 - Darius Sadeckas 34:56

5 - Jorge Fortunato 35:27

RESULS (HE) Long:
1 - Michal Smola 1:05:57
2 - Darius Sadeckas 1:06:21
3 - Tiago Aires 1:08:10

8 - Jorge Fortunato 1:13:57

27th GP Camarnal

Last Sunday i went to a 10 km race near Lisbon with my friend Paulo. We had to run twice in a 5 Km course with a big climb in the beginning and an other in the middle and that means we had to climb twice too!
My time was 36'23'', not out of my expectations =)

Portugal O'Summer09 - The website

The Portugal O'Summer official website is open since the 1st day of 2009!

You may check it here:
POS'09 Website

Christmas Training Camp

As a continuation of our training project with Ori-Estarreja, this year we made an agreement with CPOC and COC clubs and invited a trainer from Czech Republic: Radek Novotny to prepare a nice training camp near the WMOC08 terrains.
We focused on performance and made some simulations of real competitions and some chasing starts were made so that we had the pressure to push hard and at the same time trying to be as much concentrated as possible.
I learned that this kind of simulations are very important because the biggest mistakes are made when we are running at full speed and the motto is, as Radek told us: "Just me, controls, map and the terrain" ;)

I had the opportunity to try two new types of training. In the 2 manna relay, one guy run to the control and go back to the next triangle and the other guy just jog directly to the triangle, where they meet and change positions. The Start loops consist of running just to one control and then to the finish simulating the start of a real competition where sometimes we lose precious seconds.
In the last day we had the long distance training where we had nice route choices to decide. I was already very tired and i think that conditioned my choices!!

2 Manna Relay:


Middle Final:


Chasing Start:


Long Distance: