Regionals

Wednesday Péter had to take part in the regional qualifiers for the student's national championship, due in two weeks. His races were 180m and 270m and he had no difficulty dominating them. So on 23 May we must travel to Tatabánya and face the challenge there. I forgot to time the shorter distance, but the longer one was 39.6 secs. I don't know about his opponents this year yet - he is in good form, so let's hope for the best :)

The event itself was very poorly organized. Registration was scheduled at 14:30 and it lasted until 16:00... Then the amateurs started and their races finished at 17:30. So we could have come only at that time - 3 hours lost waiting for nothing. The whole event finished at 19:15, but at least the weather was nice (yep it means getting more than enough UV rays again). About half of the team qualified for the national event, which sounds nice but in fact at least 2 more kids should have had better luck. We saw epic fights and again, we saw lack of race experience, takeover attempts at wrong places and lack of self-confidence. And these should be cured somehow.

So I talked to Endre (the coach) and we agreed I'd look around for more races in the nearby countries (Austria, Slovakia, the Czech at first shot).