Last weekend I took part in Austria's academic championships. Saturday was sprint, on Sunday middle distance (downhill competition :) Nor on Saturday, nor on Sunday I had any bigger problems or mistakes, but split times showed something different. Being already about 20 seconds behind on Saturday...

Getting three times into the finals and making some points there. That were my goals ahead of the EOC 2010. But already after the first competition, sprint qualification, I was not able any more to reach them. Achieving my best result on the long distance, I would not have believed it, if you told...

Except of the many smaller and bigger paths the forest in Pörtschach ( region Carinthia), was quite similar to Scandinavian forests, especially the dense ground vegetation, stones and cliffs. Last saturday, we had an Austria Cup race, long distance, and on Sunday team competition, also more or...

In the morning, taking part at Seebenstein's first mountain trophy, in the afternoon at the legendary "Birnbauer Gedenklauf". This was the program of last saturday, the tough end of a high intensity training week. Seebenstein, the village of our army base, that's why we've chosen to take part in...

Last saturday, the Austrian Sprint Championships were organised in the "Kurpark Oberlaa". Somehow I'm surprised, that the previous map is only from the year 199x, as the park is very suitable for sprint orienteering. I had two goals for this championship. I wanted to defend my title from the last...

Monday evening, in Austria's eastern region "Burgenland" (my club's home region) the sportswoman, sportsman, team and trainer of the year were honoured. Next to Michael Stocker (Grasski), Georg Tischler (disability sports - athletics), Bernd Wiesberger (Golf) and Andreas Ivanschitz (Football) I was...

Last saturday, we had regional ultra long championship organised in Dt. Kaltenbrunn. As we we would not have that many starters, our ultra long championships regularly don't earn the title ultra long. But as I have many many competitions, I'm happy that they are not that long and I am happy to...

After the 5000m track test I joint the national team training camp in Kristiansand to have some days of very challenging technical o-trainings. Only the first day, we feared that the snow might cross our plans, but fortunately we were wrong. The snow melted and melted. As it was my first visit...

Last Friday, most national team runners met in Schwechat to pass three different parts of the elite program: 5000m track run, a cognitive test and a combination of track running and cognitive abilities. As Markus planned to run the 5000m another day, I had a lonely race from the start to the end. I...

Last Sunday, I took part in Austria's cross country Championships on the long distance (9,96km). The course was placed in Vienna's recreation Park "Prater", passing our flat only by about 50 meters :) So, Patrizia and me just had to get out of the door, and voila, we were on the course. In our...