After the relaxing thermal spas yesterday the Australian team was feeling fresher for the days training. On the way to training today
the convoy had zero mistakes in navigating to the event venue. The venue was at
Iharos (Hosszú-rét) which was the north eastern
part of the map of the Hungarian Championships. On arrival we parked in the car
park but was quickly told to move along by a Hungarian road worker trying to
explain to us that they were re-spraying the parking lines that we had parked
into.
Todays course was a flatter and shorter, it
was on a 1:15000 scale map with 10m contours. The team was practicing their
pre-race routine and getting into their race mind set. Ian was sending off the
Aussie riders in two minute intervals as one would in a proper race. Having to
flip the map over in the last minute and plan as much as we could and race the
first one or two controls. This was a perfect event to fine tune anything that
anyone felt needed to be practiced more.
The course was a fairly fast course and
provided a decent amount of tracks and route choice. Unfortunately Chris on the
way to his first control had a little bit of a fall. Paying too much attention
to his map and the terrain that he didn’t realize his front wheel had dropped
into an over grown rut and soon found himself on the ground. Luckily he only
received some minor gravel rash and a bruised leg and arm.
Everyone in the team has improved each day
with their navigation, having been in Hungary for almost a week now we are
finding our bearings and looking forward to the world championships that are
not too far away.
Good riding for the next few days. We'll be watching!
ReplyDeleteKathy L.