Austria cup 2010 is over. We had the two last competitions last weekend close to Linz, including the Austrian night championship on Saturday. I reached my goal, defending the night-title from last year, ahead of Klaus Schgaguler and Erik Simkovics. I think, we had an interesting terrain, with a...

Place 30 on Saturday at the Middle distance was not enough to get a place among the 40 runners on Sunday's Sprint start list. One sub-optimal route choice and one bigger mistake (control 16) were too much - disappointment! Not only about my performance, also about the forest. After the training...

The Long Distance in Annecy didn’t add any points on my World Cup account. So, it will be quite difficult to get a place in the WC-final at the Geneva Sprint, but I’ll try everything on Saturday to make the necessary points. Of course, it also depends how many guys will show up next...

up and down, up and down. Not as steep as yesterday, but again we were facing a lot of climbing meters and steep slopes on the second day of the regional CISM in Corinthia. Middle distance with 5km and 260 meters of cimbing were waiting in Töplitsch. Today, I was more accurate in the control areas...

Today, the first day of a regional CISM event was organised in southern Austria, close to Villach. It was a shortened long distance. I had some smaller mistakes, but genereally not a bad run. In the end, I took the second place, 73 seconds behind Markus and some seconds ahead of Helmut. Tomorrow,...

The World Cup final is coming closer and closer. That’s why Patrizia and me decided to spend some training days in Slovenia. The Long distance in Annecy, as the WOC next year, is expected to be in a stony and very small detailed area. This year’s Orienteering Online Cup in Slovenia also offered...

Last sunday, I took the first leg for my team Helsingin Suunnistajat 1. It was very exhausting and demanding to keep the pace of the top teams. But, I did quite well. Just the unusual big forking throw me back some minutes and also some small mistakes before the spectators' passage. In the end, we...

Austria: Men Elite: 25 starters (all in all with long and short: 64), no qualification Finland: Men Elite: 396 starters: 7 qualification heats, 7 per heat qualify to the A-Final Well, I arrive one day prior to the Finnish Middle distance championship and did one training in a not very similar...

Last weekend I took part in the Austrian middle distance and relay championships. Both events were very well organised and offered demanding competitions. In the middle distance I could defend my title, ahead of Bindi. I had a good start, found the controls where I expected them to be and had...

Relay at CISM is over and we finished one place better than last year. Not a huge increase, as we were on place 15 last time. I ran the first leg, had a good beginning (or shorter forking ;) but made two small mistakes, so that some runners overtook me and I was back in a huge group of 12...