SM. How it's made

I was so proud to be a competitor on SM this year. So I want to share my feelings with my O-friends.

I am writing about competitions from technical point of view. How it looks like for athlete. I do it for Belorussian O-functionaries. I hope it help to increase the level of organisation the competitions in Belarus.

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SM 2011 Relay

Relay of Swedish Championships

I was very positive despite to yesterday's fail.
I was running the 1st leg for IK Hakarpspojkarna 2. To the 1st control I couldn't run so fast with other runners. That's why I choose safe route for me. But it have already gave me +2 minutes.

The rest of distance I have not big problems. Just when I've taken other route choice to the 19th I have got into the river and I fell down in water. I became so cold I couldn't almost run.

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SM 2011 Middle Final

Fail.

The article will be probably updated after.


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SM 2011 Middle Q

Swedish Championships (SM) Middle distance.

Qualification.

The nervous before the start was out of the scale. I thought I need to get calm. But at some moment I decided that charged nerves are better than "light" and they carry signals better, and I have done nothing to it. I had in my head that I'm starting with Joakim Hederskog in a same heat and we will displace each other from the finale, of course I was afraid of him.

A tactics for today was to look at the compass and to look at the compass.It's simple. But the terrain wasn't so simple. In addition I had to run-jumping with stops. It was only the way not to lose myself. :-)The only mistake I had was on the next last control. I ran little above, and 15 meters too long, but I was lucky, I was able to find the way and take it. Many good runners have made a mistake on this control.We can say that I have been lucky.

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SM training

So...

Today's evening had to be examination for me. There is SM this weekend. I have to be patient about my skills and physical conditions.

On the map you can see...
4. Route choice is not the best.
5. I just have not seen the control in the vegetation. I've got to the small opened hill.
6. It's new cut area right at the control. So I get into parallel.
8. The small crook I have got because of I have seen on a compass too quickly. It turned me.
12. I will not say the reason. It will be the exercise for my team mates.
13. I have tried to make it strait. I have not seen the O-flag immediately.

2011 SM long F

The next day should be very interesting. The course length is 13,3 km and the terrain is more hilly. Due to yesterday's result I started in the beginning. And it means that I will not see the paths of other runners.

The tactic for the final was the same. I began very easy, probably too easy. And than I have got good contact with the terrain and the map.
After the 1st long leg I took a drink and I became totally unfocused, I haven't a direction, I didn't know the object To find. +2 min.
I have refocused myself and made good route choices without any problems. Even I made some best split-times. :-)
Analyzing my race I can say that my resources were empty by the 11th control. The leg to #12 is about 150 meters. But I have done a terrible mistake. My brains weren't using logical solutions. On the way back to #11 I met Joakim, following him I was surprising. We were running exactly the same route I have run some minutes ago. The control was just behind the bush. :-(
I tried to follow Joakim, then Mats Troeng. And it totally killed me.

I was thinking to brake the race but I decided to finish it. **
The rest part of the race I walked and jogged. I haven't mistakes any more.
And I finished my first SM!! :-)

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** - the experience I have got when I was 12 don't let me brake the races, never.

2011 SM long Q

Last weekend I have been running the most important competition in Sweden.
Swedish Championships (SM) Long distance.
There are 2 days of competition: qualification and final. The competition were held in Alingsås, Västergötland.

Qualification.
The terrain of qual race were quite easy physically. It was 8,4 km long. But of course some of controls were tricky.
The main goal for this day was make my usual orienteering without focusing on the speed. So I have made the most safe route chooses. In the result I have got good race. I've got to the final.
I was really happy. It possible to compare the final on SM with final on WOC.
Tomorrow's race should be longer and tougher.

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