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I prepair myself so hard for hot weather races, and cant get one! :) It was the 3rd race in a row in 10-15 degree and heavy rain. It was no problem again, being honest didnt event think about it during race. Only in moments on roads, when couldnt see anything from dirty water.

Was again about to practice with FFWD disc. Man! It was awesome. Very hilly and tehcnical bike course, added up with tons of water and cloudy, rainy weather. It was working fantastic. 6 lap biking, and all laps started with a "wall" like uphill, u-turn at the bottom. Number lap 4 descided to put the hammer down and see how strong I can ride up on the hill. Well... droped everyone, and rode another 1,5ish lap alon in front. Originally we were 9-10 leading the field, than attacked, and we mounted off our bikes only 6 of us.

Another good chance came to practice my running "stuff" and really started to run. Wasnt afraid of running on 3rd spot for a while. Than hold 4th untill 8ish km mark. And finished 5th, 2ish minutes down on the winner. One of my best runs, still to go! Wont lay back, rather focus harder and keep improving.

Great Half IM National champs is the next main goal. It s on 11th of July. Hope it will be very hot and more windy. Also hope it will be a fair game, and non-drafting will mean non-drafting! :)

(pics are from www.triatlon.hu )

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Strange but very effective weekend

Huh,

We had a weird double race weekend in Tiszaújváros. 1st of all it was 13 degree and very rany, windy on Day1, it got a bit warmer and dry on Day2 but still too cold. Was not at all concerned about weather, it is only strange in the summer :) Mainly we have this weekend in Tizzy in around 30 degree celsius.

Luckily the is an awesome thermal bath around th race center, so all athletes were found themselves right after the race in good warm water.

2nd reason fro strange feeling, that i had a mistake, never did before. although i always tend to miss the right amount of laps in the pool. I exited water 100m before. From that point all turned to be a hard training session for me. Since I had some 1 minute lead bc of it, thought, well I could TT for a while and see, what can do against the leading group. They turned to ride 40 secs faster on 20 K, which means to me only good news. I ride much better in heat and also when motivated to ride away.
Anyway we mounted off and they caught me after 500m (had some trouble with shoes to in transition, but nver mind it) on the running course. I had great legs, and felt pretty comfortable. Had a nice steady run tempo, so conserv some power for next day, team champs - no use of killing myself, since I got DQ-ed, but still had a good training out of it.

Day2. I wanted to win the team champs so badly. I really thought we are capable of. I only didnt agree on team tactics, and team consistency, but I did my job. Raced as I was told to race, that s my duty. We were pretty slow on the swim leg, but that s ok, bc wanted to ride hard. Only had some mistakes on the 20K but mostly some of us couldnt hold the pace high. Though the main idea was done, and we conserved the 3 athletes to run their best. No secret we had 2 of us killing ourselves on bike (Milan and me), so other 3 can blow out of T2 and run others down. The story got a flop and I needed to run instead of 1 of them. At that point I was absolutely dead, having worst headache ever (bein honest got a bit scared) during work hard on bike. Anyway - I thought - I wanted to work on my run, so I really put the hammer down, and give it all I had.
After all we finished 3rd , losing 2nd place by only 1 sec.

Over all I had a fantastic weekend, really killing myself, and improved where I wanted, and improved good! Looking forward next few fun races, and focus on main race 11th of July, Zanka, National Half Ironman Champs.

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