sexta-feira, 2 de janeiro de 2009

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:

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