WMOC Sprint Events

Sprint Qualifier in Pecs

Komlo - sprint Final- sorry about the quality but you will get the idea.

Opening ceremony - look far right in crowd for Uringa heads

Nick powering down the stairs to the final control

Nanospeed nanna in the finish straight

Marg heading home

Nick and Marg catching up with O/S aquantainces

Well Uringans didn't trouble the scorer by reaching A finals

The qualifier was run in the old part of Pecs and was very tricky - trying to find a way through between streets so that you didn't meet dead ends in courtyards etc

It was fun and what was also great was that you ran through the streets and the every day rhythm of the city was unchanged. picnics, sight seers, dog walkers, wedding parties all went on around oblivious to our endeavours.

The level of competition is huge with mens 55- 65 each having 4-6 heats. You coughed and you were out of A final calculations, and if you paused to breathe well there goes B final aspirations and if you are like me I was very happy to make D final! (there was no lower).

The opening ceremony was held that afternoon and was as usual rather long with some classic folk dancing that could have been a bit shorter.

Pecs is the gelato capital of the world- never seen so many gelato bars..

Sunday saw us in Komlo a mining town established in the 20th century. Very ordered and almost symmetrical in look. The challenhe here was that whilst Pecs had some climb - there was plenty in Komlo where Pecs had the occasional park Komlo had forests and parks. So you had to switch between thinking processes. It was fun and a challenge but no where near the same as Pecs.

We did okay in the finals:

Ian McKenzie M60D - 45th out of 64

Dick Ogilvie - M65B 21/80

Margaret Wilmott W50B 51/77

Nick Wilmott M50B 37/81

Gayle Shepherd W55C 8/48

Ron Pallas M55D 9/39