Preparing for Polish Champs part XV & XVI

Nineth stage of KCR-R was organised In the Northern part of our city. It was a good chance to wake up after ultra long distance and to train my sprint skills again. I wanted to turn up my pace. Aditionally, I wanted to run straight to the point, not having any hesitations before approaching the points.

It’s a very big suprise for me, that my pace during the race was so high. I didn’t feel any tiredness after Polish Championships, in fact my legs were lighter than on Sunday. This day, I was much better than the other runners. I was satisfied with my physical shape. Although, this race wasn’t so perfect. I made some small mistakes. 4’’ on the first, 3’’ on the fifth, 3’’ on the 10th and about 3’’ on 16th point and two big mistakes with the right routechoice. 1’ loss on the 6th point and about 12’’ on the 12th one.

All over the race I made 1’25’’ mistake, too many. But i can see some good sides of this race. My brain and my legs are becoming faster and faster. And maybe In May, my decisions will be not only fast, but the good ones too.

The second race was held on the terrain of our club. My main assumption was to read each option to the next point, during previous routechoices. Unfortunately, I had a bit of a cold, so my pace couldn’t be so fantastic as on Thursday : )

The beginning of the race was quite good, I lost about 3’’ on the first and 5’’ choosing a worse option on the fifth. I changed my option running to 7th point, at last moment. It cost me about 7’’ seconds. The biggest mistake I made on 10th point. I had remembered that I would have to take the second alley on the left. Unfortunately, this was forbidden terrain, and this mistake cost me too many seconds. About 25’’. Next 3’’ and 2’’’ second I lost on the points 13th and 14th. Running on the club terrain I had 5’’ loss to Marcin. I accelareted? and ran so fast. On the finish line I was 6’’ better.

It wasn’t a good race, I can’t be satisfied with it. But, I still see than I’m better than I was some time ago. However, at the Polish Champs, I would be allowed to make 45’’ mistake.

Only 5 weeks to the main races of this season are left. Now, I analyze 5 sprint maps each week, I come back to playing „setka” to improve my brains skills. It will be good. It must be good.

Teraz kilka zdań do Polsku, iż gdyż zaszły pewne nieoczekiwane okoliczności dotyczące serii wpisów „Preparing for Polish Champs”. Minęły 2,5 tygodnia od krakowskich sprintów i 2 tygodnie od świetnego treningu na Rudawie. Trzeba spojrzeć prawdzie w oczy i powiedzieć, że do Mistrzostw właściwie się już nie przygotuję. Aktualnie mam dwie kontuzje i biegać nie mogę. However… w tym sezonie jest jeszcze wiele ciekawych biegów:

- Limanova Cup w moim ulubionym terenie

- Mistrzostwa Polski w Jeleniej Górze

- Kraków City Race

- i jak zdrowie pozwoli to może Półmaraton Królewski?

A może zdrowie pozwoli sprawić niespodziankę 30 maja?

A i dedykacja, dziś podwójna! Dla kobiety, która mnie inspiruje i chyba nie tylko mnie!

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