Victory Morvaye and Martincé in personal records or Prague - Brandýs in Satalice 22.4.2023/XNUMX/XNUMX
Author of the article: Lucie Nekulová / Authors of photographs: Honza Nekula, Miriam Stewartová
On a sunny and hot Saturday, the next league round was hosted by the AC Praha 1890 athletics club in the Arborka forest park in Prague's Satalice. After the rainy days, the sun appeared and the pedestrians experienced real summer weather against the cold Holešov/Rumburek and windy Olomouc. 20º, bright sunshine and a beautiful, but demanding course, tested the strength of more than a hundred competitors perfectly.
Due to the number of competitors and the capacity of the track, the previously planned joint start of men and women was split into two waves. Men were the first to start. There were 58 of them at the start. Immediately after the start, as expected, he went to the front of the race Slovak Olympian Michal Morvay, on whose back our participants of the Olympic competitions breathed. The first of the group dropped out Lukáš Gdula (both Hvězda Pardubice), after the first circuit Morvay started to build a lead even on Vít Hlaváč. Unfortunately, Vítek did not reach the finish line. Around the finish line, 3,5 km from the race, he quite rightly withdrew due to pain in the back thigh muscle. The legs were suffering on the demanding course, and a senseless continuation of the race could easily cause a longer-term injury. For Vítek, who needs to fulfill the confirmation performance for the WC in Budapest (2:36:00) in Poděbrady during the EC, there was actually no other choice.
Michal Morvay managed a commanding victory in start-finish style in the new OR - 41:53. After a not-so-successful start to the season, when he struggled after returning from the training camp in Colombia, hopefully the Satal victory will help him jump on a successful wave. The second crossed the finish line Lukáš Gdula (45:03).
From the beginning, a group went around for the Olympians Alberta Kukly (SK Jeseniova). This year, improving with every race, the junior made no secret of his ambitions for further improvement of the OR and the effort to break the limit for the ME in Poděbrady (46:00). Jaromir Morávek (Škoda Plzeň) and Adam Zajíček (Atletika Poruba) decided to the training fellow in the attack on the help limit. The first from the group was the suffering Rosťa Kolář (SK Hranice), who is having difficulty absorbing this year's demanding schedule. The veteran also let the boys go later Martin Nedvidek and Karel Ketner's wards were already left alone to fulfill the limit.
It must be said that sometimes the boys' efforts were exaggerated, serving sponges and drinking do not belong in the race at all, but the track and the conditions were very demanding. In the end, the limit was resisted by 12 seconds, when Moravek crossed the finish line in third place with Kukla fourth in the same time, with Adam Zajíček a second behind them. Albert Kukla improved again by more than a minute and if he doesn't get an opportunity in Poděbrady, it will only be a shame. Currently, we do not have another junior who would be able to attack the 45-minute mark on the fast track in Poděbrady. It is not easy to build a team, but the race is held at home, so 12 seconds is nothing that should be an obstacle to his start. The motivation and experience for the future would certainly be huge.
A total of 50 men got under the 9-minute mark, and another 15 broke the 60-minute mark.
10 minutes after the start of the men's race, the women also set off to meet ten challenging kilometers. Unfortunately, the group of female competitors de facto blocked the track for the passing men for a while, and not only the group around Albert Kukla had no choice but to shout indiscriminately at the ladies and gentlemen and fight for a place. Next time, it would be much better to let the women start 3 minutes after the start of the men's race, in order to maintain the permeability of the track, but splitting the start was a very good move by the organizers.
Right from the start, she flew into a leading position Eliška Martínková (USK Prague). She started the race in style and gradually caught up with Lukáš Gdula. In the end, Eliška finished the race in a new OR of 45:03, with which she equaled the performance of Lukáš, who started 10 minutes earlier, for a second. With this performance, she moved to fifth place in the Czech long-term charts ahead of Czech walking legend Dana Vavřačová.
Thanks to the pedestrian heaven Mudr for the opportunity to find historical performances. To Brandejska and the owner of this website, because Pepo doesn't have it saved, I won't come to the value of Eliščina's excellent performance.
Junior girls fought for more medals Ema Klimentová and Alžběta Franklová (both AK Olymp Brno). About 2 laps before the finish line, Ema Klimentová joined Alžběta again and reached the finish line with more than a minute's lead in 51:12. Alžběta Franklová crossed the finish line in 52:24. Behind them, another of this year's traditional generation races took place Pohlová - Bakliková - Bugárová. And once again, Štěpánka Pohlová - Kučerová (TJ Sokol Hradec Králové) was on top. However, the duo from Pilsen continues their performance progress and both take home from Satalic OR. The Slovakian couple still managed to wedge themselves in between them Czaková - Kurucová, when Czaková, returning after giving birth, was pulling the race for a training colleague a generation younger. For the OR improved by 19s against the track Rumburk, you ran out Johan Petříková which, like Plzeňačky, has been riding a wave of personal records since the beginning of the year. Considering the performance in Olomouc (sub 1:58) and the demandingness of the Satalice track, he will certainly see further improvement in the season.
60 of the 13 competitors who took part in the race got under 40 minutes.
Ondřej Plecháček (AC Turnov) won the additional 5km race with a performance of 28:05.
In conclusion, it should be mentioned that the race was definitely not without problems. The misplacement of the lap timer board was one of the main problems. At the finish line, many competitors hesitated whether to continue or not, because no one reported the last lap to them and they could not see the timers on the board. However, as shown in the results of individual lap times, all competitors calculated well even in the heat, no one missed laps and the hesitation was more about the fact that there was no one at the finish line to report the last lap. a goal that the competitors are used to.
The next league round is behind us and the competitors will have a well-deserved rest after the hectic start to the season.
Photos from the race:
https://lusatianracewalking.rajce.idnes.cz
https://stewartova.rajce.idnes.cz/Chodecke_zavody_PRAHA_-_BRANDYS,_Satalice_2023
