Haile Gebreselassie tells about two-hour marathon

During International Sport&Exercise Nutrition Conference 2014 Haile Gebreselassie tells about his trainings and life, about possibilities to break two-hour in marathon and confirm story about 10 km running to school:

Run with Haile

I've got invitation to participate in event 'Run with Haile' at 18th December 8.00. It is a rare opportunity to run 5 km together with one of the greatest runner - Haile Gebrselassie!

A new top-coach: The beginning?

This is the best ever master class in  running.

I'm in Twitter now (Vinogradov Mike)

I have a Twitter account now:
https://twitter.com/Vinogradovcoach 
@Vinogradovcoach 

Follow short news and conversations in Twitter!

World Cup Mixed Relay: About Fair Play

SUI1, DEN1, SUI3, RUS2 - must be DISQ. Do you agree? #Fairplay

Vinogradov Mike

The Moscow Center of Advanced Sport Technologies

My main job place is The Moscow Center of Advanced Sport Technologies (I work in the position of lead expert). Some nice photos about Center are here:

I totally support Niggli&Niggli's concept of new World Cup (Vinogradov Mike)

For the moment World Cup system doesn't have any logic, it is just an eclectic mix of different competitions. There are a lot of top runners who skip some races or all of them (except WOC, of course). But now famous people in Orienteering - Matthias and Simone Niggli have generated excellent ideas to reanimate IOF World Cup.

Current list of Galina Vinogradova's PBs

Today Galina ran 5000 m in 16:18.58. For last months Galina Vinogradova renewed PBs for distances from 1500 to 5000 m. Here is a current list:

WOC 2014: Russian team selected

Three stages of Russian test-races are completed. Russian WOC-delegation has announced at official site of Russian Orienteering federation.

Russian team for World Cup 2014, Round 3

Next stages of World Cup are coming soon. Russian team for World Cup 2014 Round 3, stage 1 (Kongsberg, Norway) includes:

About touch free systems and punching trainings

Punching at control is an element of action system during O-competitions. Fortunately, now we can see that touch free systems are spread out around the O-world. And I hope that quite soon runners will not care about time lost while punching. But for the moment it is useful to test and improve these skills sometimes.

Russian Sprint champs: Double victories

Test races for WOC-sprint were completed by Russian championships in Sprint, mass-start. Andrey Khramov and me won another gold medals.

WOC-2014 selected

Victory in Russian sprint championships (individual start) makes me selected to WOC-2014. Vladimir is a host city for these competitions. Result list  is here (in Russian). Summary in English for women:

9 May - Day of Great Victory

9 May 1945 is an ending day of German Nazism. The end of the war that costs 27 millions lifes of Soviet people. The Victory Day is the greatest Russian holiday.

Mess with control order at last women leg during Tiomila 2014 (Updated)

Usually Tiomila level of organiztion is perfect. But this year I have to report about one big fault. Order of controls at the end of last women leg was 21-23-22-24. What is correct way to react for such situation??? Rules tell "Competitors who visit controls in the wrong order shall be disqualified". In my opinion correct order means 1-2-3-4-..-21-22-23-24. And this happens at the cricual moment of women relay.

Invitation to lecture of Vinogradov Mikhail (updated)

If you are interesting to hear thoughts and ideas from coach with full list of victories from top international O-relays, you are welcome to Kvarnstugan (Alfta, Sweden) at 7/05 (Wednesday). Time is 18:30.

Valentin Novikov tells about EOC Long qualification (updated)

Valentin Novikov yesterday made quite good race at EOC Long qualification and got second place in the heat 2. Story from Valentin Novikov is here:

EOC-selected

I have been selected to EOC during Russian Cup competitions near Black See (Gelendzhik, 5-14 March). Next competitions for me are World Cup event in Spain and Sprint and Long at EOC (Portugal).

Great day - January 27

70 years ago The Siege of Leningrad ended. Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) was blocked by Nazi troops in September 1941. Hitler's plan was to destroy the city and kill all (almost three millions) inhabitants. The 872 horrible days of the siege caused unparalleled famine in the Leningrad. Millions of people were without water, electricity, steam, sewage, and food supplies. This resulted in the deaths of up to 1,500,000 soldiers and civilians.

Interview of Galina Vinogradova at Portuguese Orienteering Blog

Big interview of Galina Vinogradova is published at Portuguese Orienteering Blog (in English).