The weeks before our holiday started was marked by coach E traveling to Belgium for the European Championships, escorting our club's only competitor there. That left the kids without coach for a few days, but then coach TT came around and held superior sessions.
TT was in the national shorttrack team until lately and so payed much attention to proper technique, especially body (shoulder-hip-knee-toe) position, weight transfers and agility trainings. On Monday and Wednesday trainings he taught the kids to slow down extremely and pay maximal attention to proper practice; he also tried to teach them the importance of stretching after trainings (this one is never done in great detail with coach E sadly). Then on Friday hell broke loose and he pulled out such a killer interval training the kids were half dead after 30 minutes :)
Sadly (?) we were able to attend only 1 1/2 weeks of this as our holiday started, this left Peter quite sad as he really loved coach TT's practices.
(Time warp, skipping non-skating holiday)
So race day came and there we were, no practice for more than 2 weeks - proper pre-race taper, right? :) It turned out literally no-one from our club came to the race, only two sisters, TM (age cat E) and TA (age cat D) and their parents. We were 3 racers and a true amateur (me), wow... what a big team :s No coach even...
Szombathely still lacks a skater oval so the race was held on the well-known double handball court. That poses quite some difficulties when you want to takeover, with its non-elevated turns and very short straights. Weather was fine, meteos guessed it right this time, they only warned of rain later in the day (and in fact it was only about 5pm when it started to rain and the race was already over by then). Organisers seemed to keep up with their proposed schedule (we've started at 10:00 and finished by 16:00) and there was a fantastic speaker (a local coach) who admittedly spent the previous night in the Wine Street of the Savaria Festival so he was in high spirits still :)
Peter had 2 distances to race, 2 laps and 3, about 300 and 500 metres. His first start was *****. He started, then stood up, then almost made a stop and then started again. Later he told us he was afraid the guy next to him would hit his glasses off. Well that may be true but anyway he shouldn't stand so close to his opponents at all. On other occasions he pays attention to this, now he did not :( Anyway, from then on the race was gone, he finished 5th:
Then on the longer distance, he started better but again let others in at the first turn. Then he was apparently faster than the two guys ahead but couldn't advance. I don't blame him, he was too nervous about the fact he did not train for more than 2 weeks at all. I only hope that when we watch these videos he learns from them and uses this knowledge in the future.
So in overall he finished 5th, that makes it quite hard now in the annual championship to earn podium. I must invent something for him for the upcoming 2 race weekends.
In the relays he teamed up with IT from the other Szeged-based club, Tornado. Peter was the finishing man, the scheme they followed was 1Lap (IT) - 2L (Peter) - 2L (IT) - 1L (Peter). They performed perfectly and came in 2nd, behind the very strong team of Jászberény. Silver medal earned at last!
TT was in the national shorttrack team until lately and so payed much attention to proper technique, especially body (shoulder-hip-knee-toe) position, weight transfers and agility trainings. On Monday and Wednesday trainings he taught the kids to slow down extremely and pay maximal attention to proper practice; he also tried to teach them the importance of stretching after trainings (this one is never done in great detail with coach E sadly). Then on Friday hell broke loose and he pulled out such a killer interval training the kids were half dead after 30 minutes :)
Sadly (?) we were able to attend only 1 1/2 weeks of this as our holiday started, this left Peter quite sad as he really loved coach TT's practices.
(Time warp, skipping non-skating holiday)
So race day came and there we were, no practice for more than 2 weeks - proper pre-race taper, right? :) It turned out literally no-one from our club came to the race, only two sisters, TM (age cat E) and TA (age cat D) and their parents. We were 3 racers and a true amateur (me), wow... what a big team :s No coach even...
Szombathely still lacks a skater oval so the race was held on the well-known double handball court. That poses quite some difficulties when you want to takeover, with its non-elevated turns and very short straights. Weather was fine, meteos guessed it right this time, they only warned of rain later in the day (and in fact it was only about 5pm when it started to rain and the race was already over by then). Organisers seemed to keep up with their proposed schedule (we've started at 10:00 and finished by 16:00) and there was a fantastic speaker (a local coach) who admittedly spent the previous night in the Wine Street of the Savaria Festival so he was in high spirits still :)
Peter had 2 distances to race, 2 laps and 3, about 300 and 500 metres. His first start was *****. He started, then stood up, then almost made a stop and then started again. Later he told us he was afraid the guy next to him would hit his glasses off. Well that may be true but anyway he shouldn't stand so close to his opponents at all. On other occasions he pays attention to this, now he did not :( Anyway, from then on the race was gone, he finished 5th:
So in overall he finished 5th, that makes it quite hard now in the annual championship to earn podium. I must invent something for him for the upcoming 2 race weekends.
In the relays he teamed up with IT from the other Szeged-based club, Tornado. Peter was the finishing man, the scheme they followed was 1Lap (IT) - 2L (Peter) - 2L (IT) - 1L (Peter). They performed perfectly and came in 2nd, behind the very strong team of Jászberény. Silver medal earned at last!
About myself: I've had 500m and 1500m races, no real opponents this time but only younger ones and one female (BA from Tatabánya). So I knew beforehand I *could* earn gold :) 500m was terrible, quality about 2 on a 10 scale, while the longer one was about level 5 then. In fact the latter came too early, I wasn't paying much attention to the programme and just had lunch about 10 minutes before the start. Not the best idea at all :)
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