New Year's pedestrian hall, Jablonec nad Nisou, Strělnice hall, December 27, 2022

After a two-year break caused by covid, the traditional indoor race, which has been used by pedestrians for many years to close the past season, has returned to the pedestrian calendar. František Párys and the whole team of organizers deserve a lot of thanks and recognition for the effort with which they resumed and organized the race after the break.  On 27.12.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX, less than thirty pedestrians gathered in the Jablonec hall. Lower participation than in previous years was also due to the flu wave that swept through the Czech Republic in recent weeks. 

cpa78531The youngest male and female pedestrians started the race with a 2000m competition. She crossed the finish line first Lucie Maredová (Atletika Jižní Město, tr. Mandíková), who improved her performance from the Pražská hodinovka by 22 seconds to 13:05.92. He won among the boys Vojtěch Landyš (AC Ml. Boleslav, tr. Irain) with a performance of 13:19.66. 

He won the 3000m race for pupils in 15:39.30 Ondřej Plecháček (AC Turnov, tr. Krištof) in a new indoor personal record. The indoor scullery also finished second, the surprising medalist from MČR žactva, Dan Mochal (AC Slovan Liberec, tr. Párys), and with a time of 16:16.44, Marek Rösler (AC Mladá Boleslav, tr. Irain/ Prückner).

In the women's race on the traditional 3000m track, the cards were handed out at the moment when the best Czech female walker of the moment entered the race Eliška Martínková (USK Prague, tr. Čermáková). Although she won by at least a steamer, she improved the OR to 13:07.46 and showed excellent readiness in this phase of preparation, but technically she was definitely not convincing. The talented junior, a participant in last year's European Youth Championship in Jerusalem, Ema Klimentová (AK Šternberk, coaches Sadil/Čermáková) also came in second place. Against the February MČR in the hall, she improved by 12 seconds to 14:22.60). This year, the hard-working Alžběta Franklová (SK Jeseniova, trainers Korbel/Čermáková) advanced to the category of junior women, who also won the personal best - 14:31.43. Johana Petříková also got under 16 minutes in the new OR - 15:48.26 (Spartak Prague 4, tr. Brandejský), a huge improvement of almost 3 minutes certainly made Nelly Bugárová (Škoda Plzeň, tr. Malysa) happy at the finish line - 16:10.66 . Another personal record was beaten by Ema Kyselicová (Spartak Praha 4, tr. Brandejský), who finished far behind the sixth veteran Lenka Borovičková (SK Nové Město n. Metují). 9 female competitors finished the race, seven of them in OR. 

In the men's race, only the veteran Nedvídek appeared among the adult representatives, but every walking fan looked forward to the next fight between our juniors Zajíček (Atletika Poruba, tr. Ketner) and Morávek (Škoda Plzeň, tr. Piták). This year, they will both start in the adult category, the last race between juniors was clearly decided by Adam Zajíček with a new record of 20:44,99. Although Jarda Morávek fell significantly behind this time, his time of 21:26.19 is not the worst at this stage of preparation. Third place was easily won by the ageless Martin Nedvídek (AC Rumburk) with a performance of 22:44.40. Albert Kukla (SK Jeseniova, tr. Korbel) also got under 25 minutes in the new race car - 24:09.26. 11 fighters finished the race. 

The last year of the New Year's Eve performances showed not only nice fights, high-quality performances and a flood of ORs, but also the interest of pedestrians in indoor races. That's also why it's good that the slowly starting indoor season will offer a whole range of opportunities for racing. 

Results:  https://online.atletika.cz/upload/jablonec%20nad%20nisou%2027.12.2022.pdf