
Aloha here, aloha there, aloha
everywhere. Xterra World championship on Maui is over. I came nine
days in advance to suck the hawaiian sun and get used to the local
vibez. Just to make sure that I won´t make local Gods angry I
slept on the ground (well in the tent) to get in touch with them and
they accepted me. So I just relaxed, drank coconut water, ate
pineapples and trained little bit. Day before the race I was
expecting at least some small nature disaster (last year it was
tsunami) but nothing came so no fun before. 9Sunday 9 am, boooooooom,
the start canon almost made me deaf, it scared me so much that I
pushed to the front like raging toro.Suprisingly teh Ocean was calm
as a pond in the Czech republic, no waves no fun. So I had to just
push hard while swimming. The result was going out of water on 8
th
position, not bad. I jumped on my bike and pushed
hard....mistake....soon I was puffing like a old train and I waqs
suffering, it was up up and up. The sun decided that it will show us
its full strenght, wind remained somewhere far far above the Ocean
and didn´t come to help to fight the heat. I felt like frying
egg. In the second half of the bike course I started to feel much
better and I started pushing hard again.Last 10km it was tons of fun
on singletracks, left, right, up, down, left, right,up,down......The
plan was to come off the bike with still half fuel for the run and it
actually happened. I felt like Usain running out of transition area,
but after 500m Usain was done and I was suffering again, first half
was just uphill and just boiling with heat, not good.But than I
realised that it is just only psychological problem so I put myself
together, switch the brain to the save mode (screensaver).....and
here we go, I ran fast again and I past another five competitors. I
finished 21
st in Elite category, so far my best result at
the Worlds and I am happy with that. After the race just chillaxing
came, I switched coconut water for beer and was enjoying the sun and
Ocean finally. Now another part of my mission is coming – Canada
and Yukon Arctic Ultra. Stay tuned :)

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