Greetings from EOC!
The qualification races of forest distances are now over and my performance was good enough to achieve only 10th place on middle distance. The result does not satisfy, but the performance was good (45-50s misses). Which makes me wonder, is that heart rate has been really high during the last few days. I don't know if it is because of bad sleep during the last 4 nights or does it come from other stress factors.
What comes to today's long distance qualification, I can say that I qualified :). The performance was good, heart rate already clearly lower and running felt easy all the time. And even the placement was better: 5th. I think I will have a good finals in these champs after all. Tomorrow's rest day will be needed and most probably the physical level will be higher in the next race on Thursday!
The start of the long qualification was pretty stable (except 2nd leg):
The rest was a bit slower and included some minor mistakes as well (9-11 & 14):
