Hungarian Junior Championships

The Hungarian Junior Championships were held at Jászberény on 21st June.

It was damn hot that day (too). I guess we've seen 35C or so, effectively no clouds during the day... Luckily the team's new tents (the blue Powerslide/Core/Matter type) have arrived and served well. We looked sooo professional... And again the race was an administrative catastrophe ballet, the start was set at 09:00 but no professional racer hit the track before noon :( And all those kids suffering in the heat... Damn. How on earth can it be done right in Germany or in the Czech or Slovakia? And how does it happen each and every time here in Hungary? An age-old curse sitting on us or just plain stupidity???

Anyway, Péter had 3 distances to race and 4 contestants in his age category. On 200m, he started awfully and came in the first turn 3rd, the guys behind him made it a clearly dangerous situation, almost crashing into him. Then he fired up the rockets and overtook Remete Botond from TDKE (in blue/white suit) in the straight, then the guy from KDSE, Hazafi Ádám (in red/black skinsuit) in the first half of the 2nd turn. From then it was a clear run but when he crossed the finish line his face told it all - "phew that was a tough one but I DID IT!"


Then on 300m he started much much better and dominated the race from start to finish (check his new helmet):


And at last he had a longer distance to race, 500m. He produced a wonderful start and had a nice lead soon.

Then after 1.5 laps he started to stand up a little bit but I was just there and shouted at him "You are getting slower, Pete" and those words worked like magic, he tucked in a wonderful low-sit position and produced a delicious flying lap, humilating the others so obviously.

So all in all he claimed unambiguous gold, hurray!


The team produced bit too few podiums or good results but they were right after a week-long training camp, putting many many miles in their legs on bikes for 7 days, so obviously they were all worn out and tired.

And at last, the federation has decided to have personal race numbers for a season, so we won't have to collect them and give them back at each race...