Yesterday i was last of the qualified runners. Even worse than the day before. Running was still not feeling the best and additionally i did stupid mistakes. Nevertheless it was great fun running in the city of Zürich with spectators cheering on every corner.

Map

Route Gadget

Now i don't know exactly what to do the next weeks, but the original plan was to run Italian cup final on Sunday and Graz halfmarathon the week after. We will see how shape is going to be...

Today i finished 34^th in the Middle distance race of world cup final in Switzerland. Doesn't sound too good, but actually i had a nice race technically speaking (not sure about the route choice). But i had no power to push on the hills. Not fully recovered from being sick as it seams.

Looking forward to tomorrow, hoping for a better response from my body

Italian Team at the start.

Last weekend i wanted to participate in an Austrian Cup competition on Saturday and in Austrian relay championships on Sunday. But it came a little different. After a hard training week i felt a little sick on Friday evening and so i decided to skip Saturdays competition to fully focus on relay. Still the feeling on Sunday was not the best, but i knew the team was counting on me and so i had to compete. Chris on first leg and Tobi on second did a great job and sent me out in third place with some minutes from the leaders but with a assuring margin on the 4^th team. So the plan was not to take any risks and try to avoid mistakes in a technically demanding terrain. My race went well, I had great fun running on 1:7500 map scale in a forest with so many details. A little unexpected in the end I was able to pass Martin Pongratz and we won silver. A great day for our young (well, maybe not including myself :-) team.

Competition Map.