Sunday, May 9, 2010

How Often Can You Give Double Reds Blood

Livata


middle Italian Championship: the game is historically more participatory, and pending since the distances are not prohibitive and there are batteries in which we play access to the final. That's why, this year, with just 400 members this event is output some resized. Was rather sad to see rankings very short or even with battery useless. I will not be here to analyze the reasons for this phenomenon because everyone has their own idea ....
In M35, the complicity of the establishment of the new M45 category, the entries were not very numerous: 21 athletes at the start of which only 13 in the final! the big names stayed home were at least 5, but commit to this Monte Livata was still thick. Already booked the first two places, Rigoni - Pin, remained the bronze which served as a virtual victory, on paper must be within reach of the new star Dario P. orienteering but, at times, reserve some surprises. In the large group, however, a number of athletes with different characteristics: those who fast but not very technical, some technical, but slow, some both.
The land and the paper are misleading: forest faggetto bottom clean and plain white paper suggests high speeds but the risk is to go out of range and finish, confused, in the middle depressions, hills and glades all similar. The distances are provided immediately too long: 9 kmsf. (End-M35) to go in 30'-35 '(by regulation) mean 4' to kmsf.! maybe, just Rigoni, is able to do this .... For this reason, the master of the knot before the race, It is theorized the podium with 50 M35 '.
But first things first: let's start with Friday afternoon and arrive in Milan at 15 to 24 Subiaco! this could be a reason why not too many orienteers northern Italy have decided to cross the Apennines, this weekend. Saturday morning, the weather forecast is what people like me: cold, light rain, fog, meaning that nobody wants to be outdoors, but all remain holed up in cars and tents in the few companies (I attended the lecture given by 'ErTeam on how to erect a tent ....).
The arrival area is the same as a stage of 5 days a few years ago; The starting point is about twenty minutes with warm-up available.
I try to do some point and I realize that this kind of morphology need for an eye as the contours are not always parallel on the same coast, further attention is required to decipher as a symbol has been used to draw groups of stones and rocks that appear in certain areas, in depression there is still some snow. As mentioned above, this paper there are no major difficulties, if the focus was, conversely, the risk is to waste time if, suddenly, you lose control of their movements. My semi-final is not very difficult: only a few points could make the difference but otherwise there are enough elements that allow for safe navigation.
My race is not the best: quiet part of town, trying not to risk serious mistakes, and I just feel heavy and slow (fortunately that Stegal had the same symptoms during his race ...). I lose more than a minute to 4 where I go along even though I had chosen a good point of attack (the two yellow to SE), all right up to the 11 where he lost almost 2 minutes making me a boy who tries to influence my own lantern .. .. since he comes from that area where I found the point to be there, wondering if I've seen the lantern, I'm going to try few meters to the east.
Bad error to 12: For once I can trust to go to the compass: north, straight for straight! probably because of my lack of familiarity with this tool I'm looking for the lantern to the west too, managing to find two points located a few tens of meters between them. I think I lost about 4 'when we finally cross that has just punched Frizz ... From there, the arrival is a long pull to get back in number of skilled workers.
Despite the cold, once again, I went beyond my threshold with the result that the head went into crisis, I think it is a symptom of poor training at high rates and therefore quite justified. As expected, the thirteen finalists' names were those predicted even if the Bard put his neck .... analyzing the split I realized that Darius P. (The dream) was wrong more than 10 'and then I realized that his physical potential was indeed superior to us all old master "historic."
In other categories the greatest surprises came from representatives of Lazio as they could be inserted between the usual suspects. Afternoon and evening, with Mary and Stegal, passed in Fiuggi, various locations across the scene of events of the past since this area offers an ideal terrain for guidance.
Sunday morning the weather is completely different: bright sun, cool temperatures and loud music to welcome the few tourists Sunday, Stegal takes almost two hours to make the B final and anticipates a mid-ramp that make you sweat a lot. I liked the time when almost all the finalists M35 found themselves talking and joking with each other: each of them gave the maximum, shortly thereafter, to take that bronze could win but the weather showed that gogliardico everyone was calm and enjoy this opportunity.
The course of the final I did not like much: that trattone in half is not much to middle and various routes have enhanced the complexity of the land, perhaps, I am influenced by the locations seen on the international sites, where the middle is a technical race with at least 20-25 points max. 2 minutes! Sunday in the plot, only the 10 to 16 gave the chills the rest of the sections seemed to be more long. Obviously, times have suffered and even Rigoni has managed to stay under 35 'that would be a threshold for making references, and only I knew Seidenari remained below 4' Kmsf. and do not run in M35, then the time reference should be quite different .... not to mention the B final, being reserved to the excluded, should be much shorter! The grid, each 2 ', could be expanded given the few starters: there was no need to bring together three categories to a single track to start all so close.
My test was quite good, marred by two mistakes from about 2 'each: the first point, wrong by more than one person was malicious because the language on yellow paper, which in reality you could see in front of the Swedish, was not what led to the circle when, after the error, I'm back in the points I heard the arrival of "the dream", initially I thought I'd give up the race then, because the time lost was less than two minutes, I thought the length of the race, I immediately decided to make myself overcome by the athlete to Trentino not busting my rhythm and my concentration because its wheelbase is more than one category, I could see him miss the third, among the fields and when to punch, I recommended to run more quietly and focus better on paper. As soon as he disappeared from my view (after) I started my race even though the speed was not crab could keep a steady pace and with fairly minimal errors in the points. To the point seven cruisers and the Bard did not understand a big gap to him .... Remo, who started two minutes ahead of me, not even the shadow.
When Henry is far beyond me that runs with ease irritating, after the central loop ramp fun after the second mistake I made: in paragraph 11, this has also made its victims, followed the language yellow (as above), but I realized that the rock was on the left to search dell'avvallamento ! even here, a couple of minutes lost, but during the ramp to the 12 I saw the silhouette of Remo. Here I have to debunk what they want to display Remo: In recent years, he always comes from the 100 to finish with a ridiculous pace, but this scene is just because its pace is very different in the woods! at the end of the loop I was able to take it but I made a choice for the 17 at risk: instead of up and down I was around the back on the road! I arrived just after the lantern Remo (who chose the other option) but I realized that split from the tour had not paid.
In the end I reached Bussi and I remember the final of the relay a few years ago, always on such land, where he lost the challenge for the silver this time in front of me could not sign their own better! The final results do justice to the forces at work: Rigoni before the duo Pin - Pedrotti (they have almost the same pitch) and master behind the large group of "real" enclosed in minutes.
Eventually, however, were a little too happy with all those who had lost a few seconds of a medal, there were no big surprises but some medals "family" have made it look even smaller than the circus orientation. Return journey still with tails but at least we had fun!

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Funny Thing About Eating Doughnuts

Brinzio


Two days Brinzio : event organized by the union Tumiza - North Point consists of a relay race, a Two and a real long . Saturday afternoon we find ourselves in a small sports field Brinzio for the relay, I am writing with Stegal remembering the victory of the park remedied Pellerina in 2008. The goal is not victory, as there are at least three brackets are stronger than us, but to store kilometer race to prepare for the adventure-O Marathon 2010 in the program between even two months. The program provides for the start of the categories with classic tour at 15 but at 16, the sports menu offers the innovative formula of the double round. I must say that after trying the experience was not bad this thought: indeed, I think a relay race with 6 sets (three each) for 10-15 minutes would be even more spectacular for caregivers and those who run ! That of the first round Saturday included a very short while the second most long.

My test was very different: the first launch has proved very difficult because you had to start strong and right into the paper, I had no problems on the first point but from the next, as the lack of some details on paper made me insecure, which is why I could not make a decent test and only thanks to the short path limit the damage.
The spectacle of the trial was still very high even for the novelty of the delivery of IT Card served as a witness, for the second question I had to wait for Stegal and then, in the meantime, I had time to see the arrival (finale!) of Madda behind with Oleg, as well as store separations from teams that preceded us.
The second route involved a very long central section that would have surely made a difference: in fact, after rising for the first two points I decided to get quota to avoid deep valleys that characterize this area, the choice is noted good allowing me to recover many positions in the standings. For the remaining stretch I had no problems and closed without significant smudging the end result was assumed from the start: immediately behind the relay out of reach! For the record M35 and MA were won by families: cogniugi Magdalene and Anuchkin senior and junior .
Sunday morning long runs the : distance and temperature suggest that it will not be a walk ... in addition, there is no rest and I have not even brought the bottle! The land is still clean despite the predominant color both light green and the network of paths is good, though not always visible. The difference is accentuated because the slope is not at all sweet. Years ago, he played in an Italian championship ultralong (perhaps only) with the arrival Pradel - Zanetello shoulder to shoulder .... that many still remember! Despite the findings are older than 10 years the vegetation is not very different from that designed. The course of the long is well designed and only the stretch from 12 to 13 who were really worn down to the limit, the alternation of good points in bunches and long distances, perhaps useless the last two points added only little street but nothing technically . MA and M35 with the same path and then to compare charts: a surprise (but not too much), the best were Oleg A. and the Ticino Castelli, hidden among the PM there is Madda that he forgot the lantern 8 but his time was just over an hour.
Among the master, the human time was around an hour and twenty-five : the large group Bozzola, Grilli, Shutkovsky , Magenes was enclosed in a minute, my test, rather regular, was tarnished by a couple of mistakes: about 3 '9 where I did not see the lantern and the lantern I wandered in on a stretch of empty nose, at least 6' to paragraph 14 where he lost the concentration and with it the path leading in the points.
For the rest, having reached Steven, I made reference to his hope to convey some good advice: in fact, a couple of times he's gone, but managed to be overcome in the center of Brinzio ! All in all, the leg held up but the speed is no longer that of a couple of years ago and a long , the technique has less impact than running and physical strength. In conclusion, the weekend was nice thanks to the beautiful day that made him happy too dopogara , a greeting to the family Calandry , gold-old friends.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Cover For Operating Generator In Rain

Monghidoro


had to be a long post this, as were two major stage races: Italian Championship and Italian Cup sprint! Instead I find myself writing very little. Saturday afternoon I was a spectator of the LIVE on the site of Cus Bologna because I stayed home and work for a few hours I have enjoyed the results of athletes that I know personally, instead of the usual international names that I recognize only from photographs. Too bad it was not able to be there, not because I love the sprint, but for comments, after the race, which seemed to me too flattering to people who do not like pure speed. Looking at the various charts in real time, I have seen some truly amazing performances like those of the elite and Pittau Simion and master Pedrotti.
Noting that the weather forecast was good, I prepared the bag with clothes ready to enjoy a Sunday summer spring peak in the Apennines.
dawn, a strong wind on the port city of clouds of concern and therefore change clothes just before the morning departure; Stegal calls us on the highway and announced the postponement of the departure of two hours. We get to Monghidoro and we feel that the temperature has changed a lot since she has just been snowing, a few feet higher. Because of limited space for parking, we must go to the meeting with a van and the consequence is to remain in the cold waiting for the start. Fortunately, and slowly, the clouds begin to move south, giving way to a blue sky, the landscape is very special because the whole forest is covered with snow. While I think I'm going to start Stegal that is already in the forest and return to finish like a big snowman ....
When I see the paper I understand that I was wrong to come here: the ground is the classic of the Apennines, with a ridge in the middle map and an endless series of contour lines, the coasts are jagged from the usual dips, more or less deep, and this type of race is often preferred by those they train and are resistant fisicamnete. My race takes 7-point: so far (30 '), a single mistake by two minutes, in paragraph 5, where output is my chronic lack of technique "take to the bush."
is 6-7 after a very happy my brain goes into tilt: Despite the cold sweat too much and was able to go out of range! In practice, step in and clear away, not knowing (my fault I do not read the press ...) that there is a "stamp" on top of the paper, I begin to spin on the coast to the east of the point.
The worst thing is that I am involved in a public session, consisting of boys and girls as well SUPERMASTER, they are looking for the lantern 90 and are confident of their position, and when I see Attilio in the area, I am convinced Missing the lanterns and decide to continue .... After a few minutes back on my feet and, more polished, I understand that I have tried in the wrong place! Punzo the number 8 with Attilio and know that an hour has passed, I feel my stomach and legs not fully functional and, after giving a glance at the track missing, I understand that it is better to return home.

Given the final results, I might have to continue the race and make some point in the standings, but it was not my intention to run for the Italian Cup. Unfortunately, despite the sun trying to warm the souls present at the meeting insisted, decide to run away immediately because the cold was still king.
In conclusion, I can not to give an opinion on this trip because I was not able to appreciate the technical and the boundary .