JWOC and the JWOC Tour wrapped up today with the relay where
both the women’s and men’s teams won gold which was amazing to see.
Stage 4 was at Certovy Skryse and was a true middle distance.
In short it was not a great race for me. It was a really tough map with tons of
rock detail and many rocks that were not mapped because they were slightly too
small.
Stage 5 was a sprint in the town center of Hradec Kralove. I
had a good race but sadly lost around 30s near the end because I miss read the
impassible walls. I also might have chosen the wrong route here but it is hard
to say since I made a mistake on the leg. I placed 7th out of 47, 40
seconds back of first. It was raining lightly which made the cobblestone pretty
slippery but it was a bigger challenge to avoid running into other competitors
when reading the map as there were people running in every direction.
Stage 5 was a chasing start, long distance race at Koliba. I
started in 13th spot but could have started around 10th
if I had made my start on time at stage 2. I ended up in 12th
passing one guy who started before me (the winner of the sprint distance). I
placed 12th on the stage and 12th overall out of 46. It
was a fairly clean race despite four 1 min mistakes. I am still happy with the
race as it was tricky flat terrain.
Tomorrow I am off to Olomouc for a training camp on the maps
that were used for WOC 2008. We will have one training Sunday and two trainings
a day until Wednesday. After that I am competing Thursday in the HSH Cup
starting with a night race.
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| Stage 4 Certovy Skryse Middle |
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| Stage 5 Hradec Kralove Sprint |
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| Post race Hradec Kralove |
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| Stage 6 Koliba Chasing Start Long |
Results: http://www.jwoctour.cz/upload/live/tour/resultss6.txt
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