I spent the last weekend in Switzerland, taking part at the Swiss Sprint and Middle distance championships. The sprint was hold in the city of Bremgarten, offering some narrow passages in the old town, one longer route choice and many fast decisions, running either left or right around the block....

  After yesterday’s Springcup Relay, some questions, concerning rules, have arisen for me. Background: the first three teams of Men’s Open Relay were in danger to be disqualified: Vaajakosken Terä due to a missing punch on the SI card, IFK Göteborg and our team, Pan Kristianstad, due to...

  Austrian Cross Championships At this year’s Cross Champs, we saw a stronger starting field as previous years, with Günther Weidlinger on top of it. In previous two years, I reached place 4 and 5 on the long course, but this time I was out of top ten, finishing 11th, just ahead of Markus. The...

Yesterday’s middle distance at POM (WRE) was again a very interesting competition, as the terrain was full with stones and cliffs, small and big ones. In such a terrain it is not easy for a mapmaker, as he has just limited symbols. So, you often don’t know which stone size you should expect from...

  The second day of the POM turned out to be what it promissed, challenging course in a technically interesting terrain. The many many stones made it very important to navigate with concept and high concentration all the time. That was also my goal for this race. Unfortunately, I was not able...

1st day of POM 2011 is done. The lovely surroundings of the Coudelaria (famous horse farm) offered a suitable start and finish area. The runability was very good, so the running time were pretty fast (below 5min/km) on the 14,6km and 665 meters of climbing course. I am satisfied with my race,...

Before I'll leave again to Portugal tomorrow morning, I took part in a regional cross country championship in Styria. As two weeks ago in Bad Waltersdorf, I ran the short distance in Graz (3,6km), where could reach the third place. It was really though course, with 50 climbing meters on the 900m...

Since Wednesday, I’m with the national team in Portugal. First we had some trainings near Quiaios in the typical coast terrain. This weekend we took part in two competitions, closer to the Spanish border. Both races were very interesting, especially the shortened long on Saturday was technically...

    The last days of 2010, I spend together with some friends in the mountains, on the Fragant Alm. We did some snow-shoes hiking tours... The weather was just amazing... Pictures say more...  

The last two weeks, our training group spent a lot of time on crosc-country skis. But also running sessions and strength training was on the schedule. Luckily, we already have much snow in Austria on higher altitudes since end of November. In between, Patrizia and me travelled for some days to...