On the same day as JWOC Sprint final, the first day of 5 days of dolomites was organised in Italy. Already the way to the start was very challenging (2,5km with 350m climbing) and demonstrated what to expect in the forest. My focus today was clearly on orienteering instead of running max speed. The...

My goal for World Cup races in Oslo last weekend were to gain as many points as possible. Coming home with 2 was not what I was aiming for... After training in end of May in Oslo and the Model Event, I expected tricky controls with heavy runability (at least for Middle European terrain used...

Never before I was orienteering in Vorarlberg, the furthern most western region of Austria, close to the Swiss border. Last weekend the Austrian sprint championship (national competition for Switzerland) and on Sunday Swiss Middle Championship (Austria Cup) were organised in Feldkirch and...

After a zero-point start in World Cup season 2009 on Tuesday, I was eager to make some points in the Sprint and also qualify for the final. I had a good feeling during my qualification heat. I was convinced that I would need a mistakeless run to take the final. To the second control I took the...

Well, the first Worlc Cup Event 2009 is just over and I still have zero points ;) But I want to talk about the relay on Sunday first. As usually in the younger past, I was running the first leg, with Markus and Bindi on the second and third leg. Everything went fine to the first control, but to the...

Last weekend, the Austrian national team had selection races 3 & 4 in Hungary, Miskolc, in the famous Bük mountains :) Well, I managed to qualify, but I'm not proud of my performance in selection race 4. First, we had a sprint-competition somewhere in Miskolc, mixture of forest and settlement...

Since end of January, my girlfriend has been doing her internship in Bergen. The last 8 days of her stay in Norway, we travelled together between Bergen, Stavanger and Oslo. The Norwegian landscape is just wonderful, and so driving for hours and hours did not become boring, even if the weather was...

A nice weekend in Corinthia is passé. On Saturday, we saw the Bundesländer-relay. With Gerald Mayrhofer, Andrea Hafner, Julia Bauer and Martin Richter, I could achieve fourth place with Burgenland 1. Altogehter (the best three teams of each region count for the overall ranking) Burgenland took 5th...

On Sunday, we will find out who will become Austrian Middle distance Champion 2009. Both, women and men will fight in St. Jakob i. R. (south Austria) for medalls. I hope we will see interesting courses in an interesting terrain. As I am a "nice weather runner" I hope that weather forecasts will...

Last saturday, I had the possibility to organise the "burgenländische and steirische Sprint-Championships" in my home-commune Pinggau. I was one of the map makers and we tried to apply ISSOM 2007. Furthermore, I was responsible for the courses. Most competitors were satisfied with both, map and...