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Austrian Season started!

2010-04-25T07:05:00.000-07:00

Last weekend the orienteering-season also started in Austria. The Austrian Championships over the Sprint-distance took place in Vienna. The competition area was a typical park with some smaller forest-areas and some small ponds. It was really nice that the elite and junior categories started before all other categories so we could watch them.

Then after a long time of waiting (the M17-18 E had really late start-times) I also started my race. My race was not so good. I did four big route-choice-mistakes and also lost some time because of a slower running-speed. In the end I was 1 minute and 20 seconds behind Tobias Habenicht on the 2nd place! That is ways to much. I think that ca. 1 minute were the mistakes and the rest was his faster speed.

Here you have find the Results and the Routegadget.

On Sunday there was the 2nd Austrian Ranking Event. This day was longer distance. We had 7.4 km with 315 highmeters and 10 controlls. All in all the area was really steep and the controls were just to run and with route-choices. Unfortunately I took a really bad route-choice to the 2nd controll so I lost 4 minutes there. Two the 5th controll I lost another minute and uphill to the top of the last steep hill I had not enough strength anymore to run a good speed there. In the end I was 5 minutes and 20 seconds behind Tobias Habenicht again. He is in a really good shape at the moment.

Here you have the links to the Results and the Routegadget.

Portugal - Fighting against the best

2010-02-21T01:39:00.000-08:00

On the 5th of february I left Austria for the first training-camp of this year.
We were 15 runner of the Austrian National and Junior-Team, two trainer and one suisse-guy.
The target of the travel was Portugal. We lived in three Apartments that were 150m away from the atlantic.
This was the view out of the living-room:

We did 11 nice trainings in Portugal and in the end we ran the POM (Portugal O-Meeting) in Figuera da Foz. The trainings were partly very hard and long but they were also a lot of fun.
We had two fast trainings with SIs, one night-training, one partner-training and some middle and long-distance-trainigs.

Here are some maps:

1st-Training

1st-Training Long-distance-Training

This was a fast Training splitted in two parts. First part was a Middle-Distance then a map-change and the second part was a Sprint. Was really nice.

At the POM I started the two long-distances (1st and 3rd day) in the M20-category and the middle-distances and the Night-Sprint in the Elite-class.

1st day Long-Distance & Night-Sprint:
The first day was really good. I started very safe and raised the speed up to the end.
All in all I had just one mistake in a very green area the rest was really good. 9th place in the end I am satisfied.

The night-sprint was very difficult so I did some route-choice-mistakes. From the 18th controll I looked to the 20th controll and not to the 19th so I passed the 19th controll (it was on my way to 20) but I did not punch him so I had miss-punch.

2nd day Middle-Distance & WRE:
It was my first WRE so I was a bit nervous at the start but after the start I did a good race. Found 1st controll perfectly and had just one bigger mistake at the 17th controll and some controll-area-mistakes in the end. I ran a time of 43:31 that was just 12:31 behind Gueorgiou so I am really satisfied with the race also because I was not the last Austrian. ;-)

3rd day Long-Distance:
This day was really horrible. I started not bad and the first loop of the butterfly was also ok but the rest was only waste. I couldn't run any speed and I did not find any controll. A lot of big mistakes. I never had such a race. I think it was because of the long and heavy training-camp and the competitions so I was so tired and unconcentrated.

4th day Middle-Distance:
Today I wanted to do a good end of the training-camp and after the horrible race on the day before I wanted to correct that. I started good. Had just some smaller mistakes (two with maybe 30 seconds and the rest was not bigger the 10 seconds or something like that. I was also able to run a good speed and fight till the end. I ran nearly the whole race alone. My time was 46:30, 12:37 behind Daniel Hubmann that one. It was a good end of the training-camp in portugal.

Now it is time to train some more hours and in two weeks I will run the Regional-Cross-Champs and a week later the Austrian-Cross-Champs. The next orienteering-activity will be a training-camp in Denmark before easter-holidays.

What happened?

2010-02-21T01:27:00.000-08:00

Since my last post a long time has passed by.
So what happened in that time:

2009:
I started at the JEC 2009. Had three good races although my running-form was not the best.

Then I had two last Austria Cups (Austrian Night-Champs and a normal AC).
The Night-Champs were very disapointing but on the next day I finished my season with a 3rd place (my first podium-place of this year).

One week later I started at the Venice O-Meeting. Race was ok but I had some mistakes, so in the end I got 6th.

After that winter-training started. It went well till now. I just had to skip one wee because I was ill. The rest was nice.

Let's come to 2010:
I have still started my track-training in the middle of january. I feel really good and I have really good feelings when I look in the future.

I love Switzerland!!!

2009-10-12T09:27:00.000-07:00

This weekend the ARGE ALP Cup 2009 took place in Graubünden, nearby St. Moritz (Switzerland). It was a very nice weekend! Beautiful landscape, nice races and also a great success!!

Saturday, 10th of Oktober:

This days programm was the relay. I (1st leg) ran together with Laurenz Elstner (2nd leg) and Killian Mayer (3rd leg). My goal was a race without any mistakes and to come to the changeover as leader. The race was all in all really good, just my running status is even not the best, but no mistake and a bit luck even brought us the 1st place after my leg. After two solid races of Laurenz and Killian we got 3rd. Same result as last year but without Robi. Cool!!

Here is my map:

Results Overall - Results 1st leg - Results 2nd leg - Results 3rd leg
Splits of 1st leg - Splits of 2nd leg - Splits of 3rd leg

Sunday, 11th of Oktober:

On Sunday there was the individual Race. I ran M2o. My plan was to run 80% and again without any mistakes. I started very chilly and everything worked fine. Just to the 13th controll I was not high enough and so I had to run a bit more up. Maybe 10 seconds. In the end I was more then one and a half minute in front of the second. GOLD in Men 20!!! I really love to run in Switzerland!!

Here is my map and a foto of the prize giving ceremony:

Results
Splits

Next Weeks:
This week is the last hard training week before the JEC that is from 22nd to 25th of Oktober in Dresden (Germany). After JEC I will take part at four last competitions in this season. The Salzburg Sprint Champs, Austrian Champs Night (8th AC), 9th and last AC and the O-Meeting in Venedig.

Partyyy & Salzburg Championships in Relay and Elite

2009-10-03T05:37:00.000-07:00

Friday, 25th of September:

Today Anna Elstner of my club organized an farewell-party because she will go to amsterdam for one year. So we had a very long and heavy night before the championships. But it was really a lot of fun and more or less extrem for some people (including me)!! XD

Saturday, 26th of September:

To get up in the morning was really hard then. We even met at 9 o'clock to travel to the championships that where 2 and a half hour away from our places. When we arrived there we realized that we could have slept two more hours because we had the from starting-time. Bad luck!!!

The race on saturday were the Relay-Champs. In salzburg we have a modus there that we don't have three people in one team just two but everyone has to run two legs. I ran together with Thomas Rothauer. He ran the first leg. On the 2nd leg, which was mine, I did a lot of mistakes and I couldn't run any good speed. I was really slow and my feet were really heavy. In the end I lost more then 4 minutes two the fastest guys. Toooo much!!

The second leg was much better but the running part was still disastrous. The technical-part was good now and so I just lost 2 minutes. Because two teams were disqualified we got 3rd. Cool!!!

Here are the maps:

Results
Splits

Sunday, 27th of September:

I wake up in the morning and felt much better!! I ran the elite class and we had 4.8 kms and 250 HMs. I started good and had no bigger mistake during the hole race. Just at two time I took a very bad route-choice and sometimes 5 or 10 seconds. The running thing was also much better but as soon as it goes uphill I have no chance. I lose a lot of time there at the moment. I really have to improve that!! After the race we had a big excitement because at the 12th controll there was one controll with the SI-station and another one without an SI-station or a number I think 50 meters away from each other. A lot of runners ran to the controll without the SI-station and thought that it was the right one and ran to the finish without punshing the SI-station at the other controll. The other runners took the right one. And so it was not shure if the runners that took the wrong one will get disqualified or not. In the end nobody was disqualified because of that. So I was 5th. When I arrived at home I was really happy that the weekend has ended!!

Here is my map:

Results
Splits

Now I still have to train for the JEC. Next weekend I have a break, no competitions. In two weeks I will run the ARGE ALP in St. Moritz (Switzerland) and in 4 weeks is the JEC in Dresden (Germany).

A weekend full of emotions!!!

2009-09-25T06:45:00.001-07:00

The last weekend was a change between success, angriness, hopes and happiness!

7th Austrian Ranking Event & JEC-Qualification:

On the saturday we had the 7th Austrian Ranking Event that was also the second qualification race for the JEC (Junior European Cup) in the end of october. I started really good. I did no mistake to the first four controlls. On the way to the 5th controll I caught up Martin Richter that started 4 minutes in front of me. Everything was fine. On the way to the ninth controll I ran a bit to much left than I thought. So I lost Martin there. when I realized that I am not on the right way I just turned more to the right and ran around the big ditch. I lost more than 1 and a half minute there. Very bad route-choice. To the next controll I did a small mistake again. Had a small blackout, thought that I would have been at the next road-cross but I was ca. 100m before it at another road-cross so I took the wrong road and had to run up to the controll. I took the next controlls very slow because they were not that easy. At one controll I ran a bit to far so I had to run back. To the 15th controll I took again a shit route-choice. Again 1 and a half minute lost. So I lost so much in the end, that I was just 7th. So I was really not sure if they would select me for the JEC-team. I had to wait until the prize-giving-ceremony on sunday.

Here is the map:

Results
Splits
Splitalyzer
Route Gadget

Austrian Relay Championships:

On the sunday we had the Austrian Championships in Relay. I was in the team with Robert Merl and Kevin Hackl. Before the race we were not shure if we could win this race. But on the first leg a lot of runners (also the favorite-team) had big problems. Kevin, he ran the startleg, ran a good race and finished on second position, a bit more the 6 and a half minute behind the leader. I ran the second leg. I started really slow, to make no mistake even because I knew that the leading team has not so good runners on the second and the third leg. I did no mistake in the whole race. At to controlls I was a bit confused but after some seconds maybe ten I found that controlls too. I caught the leader up at the seventh controll. Then I ran the rest very easy until the finish. Robert ran a good race too and in the end we had a lead of more then 18 minutes. Really nice! Again a Gold medal like the week before.

Here is my map:

Results
Splits

But I could not be so happy until the prize-giving-ceremony because I didn't no if the would select me for the JEC. Then before the prize-giving-ceremony they published it. I really hoped that I reached it! My relief was very very big when I heard my name! From that moment I could really enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Austrian Youth & Team Champs!! All in all a good Weekend!

2009-09-16T12:32:00.003-07:00

This Weekendend the 6th Austria Cup and Austrian Youth Championships and the Austrian Team Championships took place in St. Lorenzen am Wechsel, a small village in Styria. The terrain was in generally the southern side of an bigger hill! A lot of highmeters!!!

Saturday: 6th Austria Cup & Austrian Youth Championships
I ran M-18E class and we had 8.7 kilometers with 320 highmeters! I started good and had no problems in the beginning! The first three controlls were all uphill, partly very hard but I had good splittimes to those controlls. To the 4th controll I was a bit confused and so I lost 1 and a half minute because I ran very slow to the controll and then I didn't find the controll immediately!
Then everything went fine again until the 9th controll! It was a longer route and my plan was to run along the countour-line that I don't have to cross the field because I was not sure if I was alowed to run over it! I came a bit too much to the right side and didn't recognise that I would have had to run up after the small stream. So first I didn't know were I was then I realized it and ran back up to the road! Three minutes gone! To the 10th controll I had no strength anymore so I lost almost more then one minute there! To the 11th controll I think I took the best route but I couldn't run a good speed anymore so I lost two minutes there. The rest of the race was ok! In the end I was 5th! A bit disapointed because I didn't reach it to run the race without a bigger mistake!

Results
Splittimes

Here is the map with my route:

Sunday: Austrian Team Championships
I ran together with Robert Merl and Manuel Gassner in the team! We started good! Robert ran the first part! We took the lead from the beginning and hold it until the finish! We didn't saw another team after the 1st team-controll! In the end we had more then five minutes lead! Was really nice!! GOLD!! It was a long time since I was on the podium so it was really great for me, after my whole fight against the health problems in spring!!!!

Results
Splittimes

Here is the map with my route:

Finland is over! Czech Republic I'm coming!

2009-08-26T10:46:00.000-07:00

On monday I arrived back home in Austria! The rest of the Finland training camp were really great!! A lot of fun, nice Trainings, ...

So the next plans are the Summer training camp of the Austrian Youth Team, also as a preparing for the JEC in October in Dresden (Germany). We are going to the west-part of Czech Republic nearby the German border. It will be very fun!!!

After that I have two weeks left until the next important competitions, the Austrian Team Championships and the Austrian Youth Championships that are also the 6th Austrian Ranking Event of this year.

After the training camp in Czech Republic I will publish some more maps of Finland and also some fotos!!!

Finland!!! Just great!!!

2009-08-11T14:05:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we (some members of the Austrian Youth-Team) arrived in Imatra (Finland) were we are going to do a Training-Camp. First of all we got something to eat! Then we looked how the lakes of Finland are. Nice!! Then we went to our guest-families were we are living. Markus and I (we have the same family) got a nice family with four children! The house is big and nice! We have everthing we need and we get a lot to eat so everything is great!!

Today we had the first two trainings. After we slept to long in the morning because I forgot to put the watch on the time in Finland. So we woke up when the guys rang the doorbell to carry us up. It was a bit stressy. But everything went good! The training was really nice! 5.1 km, very difficult! It was fun! After swimming in the biggest lake of Finland and lunch we had the second training. It was much more difficult!! Really heavy. We got a normal map and one with only the brown and the blue things on it! I ran the first two controlls with the normal map, then I ran until the 6th control with the modified map. There I gave up running with the special map and I followed to run with the normal map. I also met Dominik there, we ran the rest together!

So now I will go to bed to be fit for the following trainings!!!

So here are the two maps (the quality is not really good, it doesn't work better):

Nice Longjog

2009-08-03T04:42:00.000-07:00

Just a little report of my training. On sunday the 2nd of august I did a nice longjog. I felt good today and the weather was really beautiful but also very hot. After the longjog I was tired but I was happy that I did it! I ran around the "Obertrumersee" and then to the top of the "Buchberg" (a little hill in my village) and then back home. Two hours and 21 kilometres with ca. 380 HMs!!! Really nice!!

Here you can see the route:

Oringen 2009 & Junior Camp

2009-07-31T06:30:00.000-07:00

Like last year, I also took part at Oringen. This year Oringen was held in the small city Eksjö.
But before Oringen Robi (we traveled together) and I joined the Junior Camp to do some trainings for Oringen. We did five trainings in different terrains. They were nice and we also got to know some new people from Sweden, Belgium, USA and Denmark. I really enjoyed it!!

Here are the maps:

One day before Oringen started we had to move to our tent. In the evening we watched the Youth-Relay and the opening ceremoney in the center of Eksjö.

On Sunday the first stage was on the program. We (Robi and I started in the same class M18E) started very early. My competition was not really good. My physical-status was really shit after the 3-month-long break because of my illness and the operation in the end. But it was not only the physical-part. I also lost a lot of time with false routes or some mistakes. The good thing of the competition was that I didn't search a control for more than 5 minutes. Like I did last year on the first stage.

The 2nd stage was not really better from the running-part but I only did some little mistakes so the technique-part was much better. At the 3rd stage I lost again too much time in both parts, running and technique.

On the rest-day I tried Biathlon-Orienteering in a little competition. Just easy and short. It was really fun. I only missed 3 out of 10 shots!!! ;-) In the evening we went to the cinema and watched Harry Potter 6 together with some other Austrian boys and girls.

Map:

At the 4th stage I could run the first time since the break a really nice speed but I made two big and some small mistakes, so again not really good. The 5th stage was the best of all 5 races, I think so. I only missed the 3rd controll and searched it for nearly 3-4 minutes but the rest was really nice. In the end I was happy that I ran all 5 stages!!

Here are the maps of all 5 stages:

On Friday evening, like every year, the Oringen-Party took part in the middle of Eksjö. We joined the party for sure!!! It was fun but very short. On saturday we packed all our things and traveled to Göteborg. Then in Gothenbourg we slept on the airport because we couldn't find any room. It was cold but it was a bit fun too. On Sunday we flew back to Austria.

All in all the competitions were ok for that what has happend in the last 3 months. Everything else was really great and fun and I think that I will go back to Sweden again, next year!!!

Lukas Scharnagl

2009-07-31T06:02:00.000-07:00

born...
7th June 1992
Lives in...
Mattsee (Salzburg)
School...
HAK Neumarkt
(3rd form)

Orienteering since...
2003
Club...
ASKÖ Henndorf
Orienteering
Coach...
Richard Gathercole
Best Results...

5th AC 2008 1st place
Austrian Titles
in Relay and Team

About me...
Hej!! Welcome to my blog!
I am doing Orienteering since 6 years now. I am training professionally and I want to become a professional sportsman later. I have build this blog to publish reports of my Orienteeringcompetitions, -training-camps, ...! So maybe you come more often to my blog and read my reports or maybe look up my routes in an competition or whatever.