Organizar un campeonato de Europa de una disciplina es un evento único en la vida de una persona.
El pasado 26 y 27 de Enero fue el fin de semana culminante de casi un año de trabajo revisando mapa y colocando controles en la Llacuna (Igualada). Felip y yo hemos trabajado con mucha ilusión para que los más mínimos detalles de la prueba hayan salido perfectos.
Pero el trabajo comenzó mucho antes, el miércoles por la noche de compras en el Carrefour de Igualada. Habia que comprar toda la comida para los participantes durante la noche y madrugada de la competición.
Los dias siguientes, jueves y viernes, serán intensos poniendo controles con Saiko. El jueves especialmente...se me hizo de noche en el penúltimo control del día.
Después recibir a los participantes, montar la salidas, preparar la llegada de las 6 horas, dar comidas hasta las 3 de la madrugada, montar la llegada de 24 h, recoger controles,...
Entre los organizadores, consigo engañar a dos amigas: Cristina y Mónica. Después se lo pasarán bomba buscando controles en la prueba de 6 horas....excepto con el control numero 90 :-)
La satisfacción es mayor cuando los participantes estan contentos de la organización. Aqui reproduzco un extracto del texto de felicitación deLauri Leppik,Participante i Tecnical Manager de la International Rogaining Federation
The event was held in Catalonia with an event center in a small town of La Llacuna, about 100 km from Barcelona.
The terrain featured rugged ridges centered around Serra D'Ancosa, intercepted with valleys.
With the highest peak of 945 m and lowest point on the terrain around 450 m, the relative heights of ridges reached 300 m, entailing thus quite some climb.
Ridges were covered with Mediterrainian pine forest, while valleys had fields and vineyards.
Spiky undergrowth of the forest made shortcuts often very slow and painful.
The course was very well designed, offering several strategic route plan choices and tactical route choices on legs.
Moreover, it was of very appropriate length as the winners score was 98.6% of the maximum.
On the other hand, the location of controls can be generally described as 'humane' with regard to objects, features and access.
Overall, it was a tough course offering several challenges - some strenuous climb on slopes and fight with spiky bush.
Add to this nearly 14 hours darkness campared to 10 hours sunlight. While daytime temperatures reached over 12 degrees C, nightime temperatures dropped to 0 C.
However, all this was fully appropriate considering the championship level.
The map was of very high quality - accurate, reliable and consistent over the whole terrain, printed on a water and tear proof material and surviving the 24-hour event (including fight with the nasty bush) with very minor damages.
169 teams with 357 competitors from 18 countries participated in the ERC, while nearly 200 more took part in the concurrent 6-hour Wild Boar Rogaining.
The largest groups at ERC were from Spain, followed by Russia, Ukraine, Latvia and Finland, while more than a dozen participants came also from Estonia, Poland and France.
Overall, the Championship was a major success. In particular, I would stress its role in broadening the geography of rogaining by attracting teams from Southern Europe to 24-hour rogaining. We shall hope that these teams have got the taste of challenge and will seek to enter also future European and World championships. In any case we shall encourage and invite them to do so.
Mapa de las 6 horas
Mapa de las 24 horas
Video de la prueba
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| Colocando un control con la ayuda de Saiko Boxer |
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| El material del "fitero": lona, base SID, soporte..y buena compañia |
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| Apunto para las doceava campanada que da la salida |
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| Mònica y Cristina concentradas en la elección de ruta |
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| Cualquier sito vale para estar cómodos seleccionando el itinerario |
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| Corredores en plena preparación de la competción de 6 h |
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| Uno de los controles |
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| La llegada de Mònica y Cristina...sin frontal. |
Album de Dani
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