MČR NOB - Not so bad, 27 minutes from the last place

Český text dole

Yesterday, I ran my third O-competition in this year. It`s amazing that two of this races were national championships. This time it was night-O champ. Right in NP (Nová Paka) prepared Taďas and comp. very well organized competition with the centre in the hockey stadium, as it was on WOC 2003 in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
I had a very special preparation last week because I spent whole week over the math books and my only moves were two squash matches with Bokovka (with disaster result for me). So I arrived to NP with head full of math formulas, but without orienteering concentration. Maybe I`d rather burn some witches.
As you can see in the map, the race wasn`t so tough as I had hoped. It was more about your physical strenght, and my is very poor, than orienteering. I had hoped that is posible to make good result without mistakes, but I lost immediately on the 2nd control 1:45 because of bad search. This control was nodal point hidden in the green which each H21 competitor visited three times and I lost there two times over a minute. Martin Štěpánek, who had started 3 minutes behind me, caught me near 6th control (18th in map, I ran H21S variant), but I could not accept his pace, choose another 7-8 (19-20) route-choice and lost him. Unfortunatly, behind 11 I hurt myself and my hands looked very bloody. In addition, in climb from 13 (25) I was feeling another pain - from my back. This factors led to deep crisis superimposed by another search mistake at 15 (27).
After nodal point I was back in good mood. I gave an advice to Lasina, felt again physicly and mentally strong. I tried to enjoy the rest of race. But this perfect moments survived only for short time. Than, between 19-23 (5-9), I lost in the huge slope the rest of my remaining power. Luckily for me, it was so closed to the finish. I punched the finish line in time 90:07 which meant over 27 min gap to winner, Marek Prasil, and also 27 min lead over the last men in the finish, Jakub Hulec.
Overall I can be satisfied with this race. But I have big reserves in hills, map and motivation. And my back hurt so much. I think that without this pain, I could be 15-20 min faster. I wanted to make a picture of my back to show you how huge pain I have. Unfortunately, batteries are low.

The map with my routes (over 1,5MB)

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