Long time no blogging. This was yet another of those long weeks when I had no time for anything. The time in Ber was spent
with the usual pursuits and then we came in on Friday. The weekend contained three events: The Kesz Pista Memorial event, the Arak Kupa and the 2009 Trail-O Championships. The first one was in memory of a realy nice old guy, and ex-soldier who died 4 years ago right after finishing an orienteering event. Every year, roughly on the same date and in exactly the same place there is a competition in his memory. The terrain is quite technical and I enjoyed it in spite of the heat. On Sunday there was the Arak Kupa, where the oldest class was W50 and only Klari beat me (again!) so I was second. In the afternoon we had the Trail-O Champs where I managed a first - not place, but a first for me of coming last. I was ever so pleased with Kovalcsik Pista doing his first attempt at planning and the course was excellent for a first try (see one of the timed controls in the abandoned quarry!), but the map was dreadful and my brain was obviously not in gear. Such is life! The usual suspects were on the podium and Szaki's new results software for WTOC had its second tryout and it worked splendidly. The selection for WTOC is shaping up, the only thing we are definitely keeping anything and everything crossed is for Fruzsi's baby not arriving early, or even on time. Does anyone know an old remedy to make a baby just a few days late?
with the usual pursuits and then we came in on Friday. The weekend contained three events: The Kesz Pista Memorial event, the Arak Kupa and the 2009 Trail-O Championships. The first one was in memory of a realy nice old guy, and ex-soldier who died 4 years ago right after finishing an orienteering event. Every year, roughly on the same date and in exactly the same place there is a competition in his memory. The terrain is quite technical and I enjoyed it in spite of the heat. On Sunday there was the Arak Kupa, where the oldest class was W50 and only Klari beat me (again!) so I was second. In the afternoon we had the Trail-O Champs where I managed a first - not place, but a first for me of coming last. I was ever so pleased with Kovalcsik Pista doing his first attempt at planning and the course was excellent for a first try (see one of the timed controls in the abandoned quarry!), but the map was dreadful and my brain was obviously not in gear. Such is life! The usual suspects were on the podium and Szaki's new results software for WTOC had its second tryout and it worked splendidly. The selection for WTOC is shaping up, the only thing we are definitely keeping anything and everything crossed is for Fruzsi's baby not arriving early, or even on time. Does anyone know an old remedy to make a baby just a few days late?On Sunday we brought Kreso home to BP with us and on Monday morning we were off to the Bukk. We started with the plateau and Kreso has been most helpful in suggesting alterations, improvements and general good tips on my course. There were a few controls which he accepted as they were and one - just one - that he not only didn't alter, but acutally liked. His serious demeanour broke out in a smile and he said that that control was good. I was pleased indeed. His method and speed of working is such that in an entire day we only managed to get through half my course and we didn't get anywhere near my model event. Second and third day were spent in Csanyik refining Laci's course and doing major map updates. I think I cannot commit to paper (or computer screen) what I have been thinking about a certain young man all in the know will know who. If he did the map last summer as agreed and made it a bit less inaccurate, we would be laughing now. As it is, Kreso was only with us for 3 days and most of it was spent correcting his hopelessly inaccurate work. Finally, we managed to finish the course, but - again - didn't get to the model controls. There is an outside chance that Kreso will come again, but as he has just started his own business, it is not likely.
We learnt a great deal from him and realised the most valuable contribution he has made was adding an international elite competitor's perspective and his amazing spacial and mapping skills. We also had a short meeting with Tuomo Peltola the IOF Controller for WOC, where he raised a lot of very interesting and useful points as well.
Just to run down on the pictures:
Apart from the quarry already mentioned, there is a tiger in the grass right next to control 8 in the ZOO, a gorgeous rose near one of the timed controls, the Lillafured Palace Hotel near where we stayed, one of the rocky controls from the Champs and a couple of amorous tortoises also from the ZOO.
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