Sylvester stage 2: Hüni again & Zridkavesely

 The second stage of the Sylvester 5-days took place on the map Sanicol on a military domain. The terrain was a mix of forest and open land. There was some low hanging fog which made the visibility in the open parts not as easy as otherwise. The course of today had another aspect, were some of the controls were misplaced. In ME, 5 controls were misplaced which caused some confusion for the runners.

In the women category we had a victory for Corina Hüni again. 2th and 3th place switched after yesterday. Eva Örnhagen Jorgensen got second place today and Lisa Hubmann settled for 3th. The other women are further down. Some of the women could follow the pace of the 3 fastest, but couldn't keep the pace in the second more physical part. We saw some small mistakes of the top 3 women but everyone could avoid big mistakes. Örnhagen jumpes over Hubmann in de classification with 1 point so the fight is on!

Official results WE

In the men category, Joshi Schmid had a clear lead over 3 minutes at control 18 but mispunched himself at the next control. So the second stage went towards Adam Zridkavesely, 2 minutes behind we have Liam Thiels. Third we have Michael Van Bealen, who kept pushing through the terrain because he had cold (I know a famous cyclist who also attacks when he has cold -> MVDP). We find Wouter Hus only in 7th place after losing 6 minutes at control 15 and some small timeloss on other controls. After the race, all the conversations were about the misplaced controls (in ME it was control 1,2,11,14 and 19). No one had a clean race. Schmid now has to run every day at his very best to safe his overall place. The overall classment keeps the same, only Schmid falls back and Van Baelen takes a couple of places. 

Misplaced control 1&2

Official results ME

Notable mention: Simon Krekels, course setter of yesterday had the fastest pace of everyone of 5'17"/km. He really liked the forest and felt super great in the terrain. Also in M18 the fight is on between some local runners and some foreign runners.

Tomorrow we go to Genk, to another green map were excuting and fighting through the forest is key to win. In 2015 we had the first stage of Sylvester 5-Days on the same map, won in ME by the German Christoph Brandt with a pace of 5'07"/km.