The 2020 vision is starting to bear fruit. Mila Lapka, 29.12.2019.

This time I have a view of the New Year's Eve hall from inside the race, so I can't comment on the performances of all the competitors who would certainly deserve it. But the more I can appreciate the work of the organizers and especially the participation of competitors. If I calculated correctly, 67 pedestrian pedestrians of all ages, from 2000m to 5000m, performed in the hall. And it wasn't about points or qualifications. It was simply a good date and a good opportunity to race in winter volume training, to try speed without tracksuits, hats and gloves. And if we add non-racing coaches, judges and other walking fans, we suddenly have around one race before the end of the year for a hundred people who don't care about walking.

And it's not just about the number, this goal The vision of walking is gradually being fulfilled in other races as well, although not in such convincing numbers as it showed in Jablonec. This important thing lies behind the performances of the first 3-5 competitors in each category. And this is a performance, finally a fast walk in the hall, a performance where the representatives simply demonstrate professionally why they are representatives, whether it is Anežka Drahotová, Lukáš Gdula or Vít Hlaváč. On the other hand, it is also a sieve that shows that only honest, performance-oriented work leads somewhere, and all hopes without an honest approach and professional training are mere words. It turned out that veterans are able to prepare on their own and better and without a background than the repercussions around which a commotion is created, but it does not disguise its own coaching deficiency and adds weight to them in terms of weight and takes away from their performance.

In all categories, there are basically two groups of racers, unequally large: those who can walk frequency, how they walk in the world today, and those who walk relatively fast, but do not use the energy of rebounding the hips for the walking leg, but on the contrary, the impact on heel crossing legs brakes. If you look closely, it's beautiful to see, and that's the difference between walking and racing walking. Of course, there is still a group so on the border of the two, there is a given physical condition, why it does not last until the target, or other factors.

Related to this is the education and work of the walking judges. I was not in Jablonec RCH, so I can only comment from the outside. On the 5000M there was a big match on both 3 and 2 red cards and no one decided individually outside, which is a good sign. I have not seen the other records and it is impossible to read from the results - this is probably my only critical reminder to the organizers - to record the number of reds in the results. I had the feeling that RCHs, regardless of their age, were usually getting used to the fact that they just walk differently, lightly and frequently today, and the walking style is not a pattern, but a shortcoming, not perhaps in terms of rule 230, but in terms of technique and performance.

We will continue to work with this knowledge in Vision of Walking, specifically restoring the previously established practice of the RCH National Panel for championship races, so that we do not liquidate young promising competitors and prevent us from walking differently than in the world. Jablonec indicated that it was possible. I don't know how much it is thanks to František Párys, and how much newly trained RCH and enlightened RCH, but he certainly deserves František for his managed races from the position of the main judge (walker).

And in order for the New Year's Eve Hall to be perfect and worthy of its name, it began to snow in style.

We will be looking forward to the progress of next season, to the fact that the group of frequency pedestrians and performances will expand and we will get a good walking step further in our discipline.