9.27.2009
Moved
But ll be nice I think.Here you are:
www.special-se.com
You find my own little site in coaches menu.
Thanx for visiting here and there.
Adam
6.08.2009
Balatonfüred
(pics are from www.triatlon.hu )
6.04.2009
Strange but very effective weekend
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.
see ya
5.28.2009
Announcement ( FFWD Wheels )
I am proud to announce that we start a cooperation with FFWD wheels (link on the logo on right side). It is a beginning, they support me with some huge discount, so I bought a pair of race wheels. Namely: Rear: FFWD Disc, Front: FFWD F5R.
I just came back from a test ride. 'st of all the sound of the wheels are already awesome. I feel they ll be a good partner in some hard break away trys very soon. You know, get going and get in the flow, pushing pedals hard, and listen to the noise of these fast wheels.
Secondly they are very light! F5R is just like a feather. Disc also lighter than my Shimano training rear wheel, plus once it is got going, feels so good to push hard.
Here u are some pics below:
Tooo light
That s bro. Do not go anywhere without a "fasirt".Yep.
Also had today some, fast fast running session, which is just great regarding, that a few days ago finished IM 70.3 Austria.
Pics :) :
CSepel, track :)
See ya soon
5.24.2009
St.Pölten Ironman 70.3
Too bad, that around 30Km at the top of the hill I got dropped bc a little gap opened and also rear derailleur didin't want to work properly. Not to mention that the big boys were using Discs, while me rolling my old trusty training set :) It was only 1 day, and I would have ridden my discs too, and probably finish bike with them.
Anyway still managed to ride only 6 min slower today than fastest bike split, which is 10 minutes faster than last year's (that was my 2nd attempt on half distance, this was 3rd).
But beginning all with the start. I positioned myself next to Marko Albert since I knew he s a talented athlete, and will dictate just the best and most comfortable pace for me. Also will post a photo below, where we wish good luck to each other. Both of us are Blueseventy athletes, so I dismissed my plan to exit water 1st. Anyway he was leadin the whole way, so it was just fair like this, leting he be the 1st to step on shore. We got away with 40ish seconds I think, and exited water together. After a quick transition (he yes, me was bit slow :) )we instantly found ourselves on S33 "autobahn rolling. After a couple of Ks Macca and Marino caught us, so we continoued 4 together. They worked only, I was hanging there keeping 10ish meters. I am just a rookie so it was fine. "The rest is history."
On the run I started good kind of a 1h20min half d. pace, but got cramps aroung 8 and suffered, needed to stop, also felt pretty dizzy. Just ate something and kept going. Found rythm again, while still cramping. Around 15ish K mark got "fast stomach" and needed to visit loo badly. Started again, found good rythm, cramping more... Before 500 m to go, needed to go to loo again but more badly than ever, fortunately just passed a toi toi. Rigth after the incident sprinted whole way to finish line in a hope i ll might pass anyone got in front of me while having "trouble" :) Without these stops clear run split was around 1h26min. Which is just 12 mins faster than last attempt.
Race will be on tv on 17th of June, on Eurosport, and sometimes on ORF1. Also available short coverages on both channles' website.
Result, and photoes: http://www.ironmanlive.com/ , http://www.ironmanaustria.at/
A short copy from race report:
"Austria IRONMAN 70.3 2009: The world champion wins in St. Pölten!
After an exciting day of racing Chris McCormack wins in 3:54:15, moments ahead of Marino Vanhoenacker at the 3rdThe Austria IRONMAN 70.3 had an impressive list of PRO’s on the starting line, which included names like McCormack, Vanhoenacker and Wallenhorst. The number of entrants had quadruple in its third year and the race was set to fulfil everybody’s expectations of an all out day of extreme racing...
Marko Albert (EST) set a new swim record in (0:23:18), followed by Adam Molnar (HUN) and Chris McCormack in fifth. The first woman out of the water was Lucie Zelenkova (CZE) chased by Eva Dollinger (AUT) in 0:25:26 and Gina Ferguson (NZE) in 0:25:30.On the bike course Chris McCormack (AUS) took an early lead ahead of Adam Molnar (HUN). At k 21 there was a change of leaders as Marino Vanhoenacker (BEL) overtook McCormack. Albert Marko (EST) and Adam Molnar (HUN) were close behind. From this point McCormack and Vanhoenacker battled in out in an exciting head-to-head challenge. Title defender Massimo Cigana was placed fourth. "
All photoes from http://www.ironmanaustria.com/
On autobahn with leaders. Look at the fixed helmet and those demon training wheels :)
Autobahn lalalalaaaa. Just wait until FFWD race wheels arrive :)
5.17.2009
2009 Buschütten Triathlon
Here you are a very nice video coverage about the race:
http://www.tri-mag.de/index.php/200905102311/Kurzstrecke/Buschhutten-Kienle-verteidigt-seinen-Thron.html
and a race report also available on the link (in deutch):
"Der musste um seinen zweiten Sieg wie erwartet hart kämpfen: Nach 11:54 Minuten beendete der Ungar Adam Molnar als Erster die 1.000-Meter-Schwimmstrecke im beheizten Freibad, das Hauptfeld schlug etwa 15 Sekunden später an... "
Huge thanx for Blueseventy, helping me to race there, and also providing such a great swimsuit as Pointzero3. How else would it be possible to swim that was, while feeling that easy!
Was so disappointed, having the main mistales done, ohh just as I started doing triathlon this year. Bad, bad.
But good thing in bad things, my hunger grew to show my abilities in St.Pölten Ironman 70.3, 24th of MAy.
See you around
5.01.2009
Season Opener (Margit Island)
Still have work to do untill St.Pölten, but we had a little rest of a breath and inserted a sprint triathlon. I was glad that I could so-so follow orders, and did a flawless victory. From the start untill the finish line, all alone, doing my race. I didnt have any expectation about swim. Therefore it was a pretty big surprise I got away easily, have no clue, but must have been something like 20 seconds from 2nd fastest swimmer.
Bike was all good, only couldn't move faster as command said. I gained like 1 min 30 second-ish gap on 2nd, and a nice 9-10 athlete group formed behind me. Including my bro, who is improving like with speed of light. He finshed 5th, and gained a lot of worthy experience, since it was his 2nd sprint race ever.
Run was quiet a fun, 1st felt strange, all body jelly. Than focused and put run together, and started to run faster and faster. But there was noone around so was not much forced to run really fast.
That s it.
NExt weekend hopefully I ll manage to get to Buschhütten and be able to compete the best athletes on a non-drafting olympic distance race. Elmar Heger from Blueseventy was so kind and helped me with registration, so Rainer secured a spot amongst pro athletes. Cant wait, it must ll be a good good fun, and pain :)
See ya
4.05.2009
18 km Greenzone TT road race, Budapest (Szentendrei- island)
Wow, just finished 1st race of the season and feel pretty satisfied.
Here are the results so far:
- My brother (he is my training partner, and going to race this year):
25'16" = 42.74 km/h
- Me
24'38" = 43.84 km/h
Our only excuses, that we raced our trusting pairs of training wheels, while facing the army of Discs and 3 spike front wheels.
I have an extra excuse, despite the fact I dont need any right now, that a car blocked me nicely at 3 Ks to go :( It gave me 2 things: a few sec negative, and a cup of adrenalin :)
It was a nice race to participate, while still doing our heavy trainings.
A few weeks and we stand on the start line of St.Pölten 70.3 Ironman !!! Yeee
See ya,
Adam
3.09.2009
Gotta watch it! So so deep
The training stuff is just going all right, so not much to talk about it. Do the hard work day by day, that s it.
But!
Here is the movie. Title: AUSTRALIA
This one made it into my top 4 movies. Just full of symbols. I dont know if it only me, but this film summarize a lot about our (so called )-"civilization" and traditions, roots and us.
No more to talk, go out there and watch it!
see ya
2.24.2009
Some more about the state of preparation progress
I am really amazed with the program i recieve from coach Woody, and with the results I experience. Of course I am having ups and downs, but it s okay. With all the problems still able to train permanently, no rest day, if there s a reason, just have an easy day or 2. But really just doing haard job since november, and extremely enjoy it.
In February, new toy, the Scott Plasma II arrived and brought a lot of joy. I spent the last few weeks (beside train my a.. off on the machine) to find my fit on the bike..you know few mm here, a few there. Right now I am quiet finished with it, only looking for a stem (adjsutable angle) and things are really done.
They say it s common , when you change for TT position, you burn your quads 1st for a while. MAn, it s in flame all the time. And it is a good news, bc I tend to have tiny quads. I ain't have muscles now, but steel-cables there, and they seem to be thicker and thicker. :) Also a good news, that i do not use any wattage-stuff, so work on my inner feeling scale, which I am considering is the best way fro me to do.
So, right now am pretty satisfied and having the feeling when you own a special power and no controll of it. Can't wait to throw the leash away.
Which goint to happen 1st on 5th of April on a 18 k TT road race. Which ll be my 1st TT race ever, but that doesnt mean a thing, ll have no mercy and ready to win it.
The run part is also awesome. Coach really found the key and am really looking forward how legs gonna shoot during the season. The real BIG "taste" will be 24th of May, austria 70.3 and that lovely 21K run. Right now all I need to do is to be careful with intensity and take good care of recovery. As my friend used to say: "Just do 1000 things right a day..." Vic Plata.
Hope all u triathletes doing good, see ya
2.16.2009
Never seen such a thing ! ,)
By the way, training is going real good, and we show some huge improvements. Feel already so much motivation to race, can't wait the season to kick off!
Have a self-confidence boosting "test" results, but those are just numbers, and we never know untill crossing the finishline. So wouldn't bore anyone with datas...
Ll be back, and enjoy the track.
2.03.2009
My club in Austria in 2009
12.19.2008
12.11.2008
Another one
a quote
'We tend to celebrate risk only after it has led to great things, which means we rarely celebrate the risk-takers who haven't yet been rewarded for their efforts. The paradox here is that we are often unwilling to embrace ambition and originality until it is safe to do so - in short, we're unwilling to take risks ourselves."
Just great!
12.09.2008
12.04.2008
Whatever tomorrow brings...
"You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement."
That fro now. bye, just was in a good mood.Bests!
11.16.2008
I. Swordfish Swimming Workshop
11.03.2008
10.05.2008
Into The Wild
Long Nights
Have no fearFor when I’m aloneI’ll be better off than I was before
I’ve got this lightI’ll be around to growWho I was beforeI cannot recall
Long nights allow me to feel…I’m falling…I am fallingThe lights go outLet me feelI’m fallingI am falling safely to the groundAh…
I’ll take this soul that’s inside me nowLike a brand new friendI’ll forever know
I’ve got this lightAnd the will to showI will always be better than before
Long nights allow me to feel…I’m falling…I am fallingThe lights go outLet me feelI’m fallingI am falling safely to the ground[ Long Nights Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]
Am now working hard, and continous, having good results and looking forward pretty much to race in Alanya in 26th of October.
See ya there, at the raceline.
9.21.2008
I am racing again, the magical 3
As it is common (usually after break downs, happens), it was a turning point for me. A lot of things have changed, and it s Alun Wooward again, being my coach.
We recollected our thoughts and determined a few aims. Put a basic program together, which I am following in the last 8 weeks firmly. Just finished my 3rd race in a row, all of them were european cups ( polish, austrian, and serbian).
BEfore the 1st I only managed to have 4 running sessions due to the recovery since the world cup. In the same time improved a lot on bike. Was able to get away from the field in the last 2 laps and gain 45ish seconds lead.
2nd race, Vienna. Exiting the water 2nd was great, and feeling still fresh. Put a load of work on the bike, unfortunately lost the best opportunity to get away with O'Grady and the austrian, with whom we worked the most. Although this races supprise was my run, which is still slow, but improved a lot in a week.
3rd. Belgrade. It was a weak filed compare to the 2 before. So was a great chance to make a get away. Which I managed to work out. Pulled hard the swim in the front untill I saw it is only 3 of us having enough gap to get away on bike. It was O'Grady and Greer, both of them having a good work ethic. We gained 2'40" untill the 5th lap on the main group. Unfortunately the kiwi fella got flat tire (sorry Graham), so it was Greer and me to hold or gain the gap. We entered T2 with a 3'10"ish gap. And hold some of it untill the finish line. I took silver.