Big Sur Marathon 24.-25.4. 2010

Just about half a year ago, probably when I wasn't completely sane, I decided to sign up for marathon. And not only "a" marathon - the Big Sur marathon - one of the most beautiful one, but also one of the hardest one! And it was really experience! Great place to run, great views, great people, great atmosphere! Time to finish: 3:57:29
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Asi pred pul rokem, nekdy, kdyz jsem asi nebyla uplne pri smyslech, jsem se rozhodla se zapsat na maraton a to ne ledajaky! Big Sur, jeden z nejhezcich, ale take jeden z nejtezsich! A byl to skutecne zazitek, nadherne misto na behani, prekrasne vyhledy, skvely lide a uzasna atmosfera! Cas v cily: 3:57:29
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Birthday Party - Santa cruz 18.4.2010

This year I was lucky and my birthday landed on Sunday. Also since in quite short time we have three birthday parties in spring - Ryan's, Martin's and mine, we decided to make one big BBQ party in Santa Cruz. Martin couldn't come in the end, otherwise everything was perfect!
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Tento rok jsem mela stesti a moje narozeniny pripadli na nedeli. Na jare jsme take tri kamaradi, co slavi v pomerne kratkem obdobi - Ryan, Martin a ja a tak jsem se rozhodli usporadat jedno velke grilovani v Santa Cruz na plazi. Martin nakonec nemohl prijit, ale jinak vse bylo perfektni!
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Lost Coast

Lost Coast is about 25 mile long trail mainly on beach in Northern part of California which I wanted to do for a while. There were always a couple of problems why it was difficult to organize trip up there, the trail is one way trip, so the shuttle between trailheads needed to be solved and there are couple of places that are not possible to pass in high tide. Also 25 miles walking on beach require usually 3 days to do it.
Having spring break and more time I posted my idea about this backpack on Meetup.com website and found 5 other adventure people who wanted to join for this trip. We were watching the weather forecast quite closely, because rain could make some creeks difficult to cross, but the weather looked OK.... until the day when we left and changed completely! At that time we were already on our way, so rain or not we decided for this amazing backpacking trip.
On Saturday morning paid shuttle took us from the end to the beginning and we started. Knowing that our car is 25 mile away and there is no way back! The headwind was hard and it didn't take too long for rain to start. Walking on beach was really difficult so we were happy to make 8 miles the first day. The weather got better in the afternoon and we had nice day in the end. During the night rain came again. We were trying to wait in the morning with packing and leaving for the rain to stop but in the end we left around 11 am. The forecast said rain for the whole day, but in the end around 2 pm stopped and we had quite nice afternoon. Since we were cold and quite wet we kept walking to keep us warm until we passed the last high tide area and saw the end of our trail. It was around 6 pm and we had about 4 miles to go. Seeing the dry clothes in our cars made us try to finish the backpack. The last mile or two we were walking in dark, but with some moonlight and on black sand beach it had its magic. We got to the car around 9.30 pm and about two minutes after that the rain started again! Great trip!
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Lost coast je asi 40 km cesta prevazne po plazi v seveni casti Kalifornie, kam jsem se uz chvili chtela vydat. Vzdy se ale nasly duvody proc bylo tezke tento vylet zorganizovat. Cesta je jen jednim smerem, tak ze se musela vyresit doprava mezi zacatkem a koncem a take je tam par mist, ktere nejdou projit za vysokeho prilivu. Je nutno podotknout, ze 40 km chuze po plazi vyzaduje vetsinou 3 dny.
Jelikoz jsem ted mela jarni prazdniny tak jsem pres interentovou stranku Meetup.com nasla 5 dalsich odvazllivcu kteri se pripojili na tento vylet. Sledovali jsme pocasi pozorne, protoze dest mohl rozvodnit potoky tak, ze byly tezko prebroditelne. Predpoved vypadala dobre... az do dne, kdy jsme odjizdeli, to se uplne zmenila! Ale v tu dobu jsme uz byli na cesta a uz jsme nase rozhodnuti nezmenili!
V sobotu rano jsme si zaplatili prevoz z konce na zacatek vyletu. Vedeli jsme ze nase auto je 40 km daleko a ze neni uz cesty zpatky. Silny vitr foukal proti nam a netrvalo dlouho a zacalo prset. Chuze po plazi byla docela tezka a tak jsme byli radi, ze jsme zvladly 13 km prvni den. Pocasi se odpoledne trochu umoudrilo a my jsme meli docela pekny den. Behem noci ale zacalo znovu prset. Cekali jsme rano, jestli dest ustane ale nakonec jsme i za deste odchazeli v 11. Predpoved rikala dest po cely den, ale kolem 2 odpoledne prset prestalo a odpoledne bylo docela pekne. Protoze nam byla docela zima a byli jsme mokri, pokracovali jsem v ceste abychom se udrzovali v teple az jsme presli posledni misto, ktere by neslo projit za prilivu. To bylo kolem 18 hodin a my jsme meli asi jen 6,4 km do konce. Vidina sucheho obleceni v aute nas prinutila dokoncit cely vylet. Posledni 2-3 km jsme sli uz za tmy, ale pri trose mesicniho svitu a po cerne plazi to melo svoje kouzlo! K autu jsme prisli asi v 21.30 a asi dve minuty na to zacalo znovu prset! Skvely vylet!
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Sequoia NP 27. - 28.3. 2010

Another great weekend in the snow, this time in Sequoia national park! My experience with reaching planned destinations for winter backpacking is not very positive. Since most of the trails are not marked in the winter and since the guessing directions from just looking at the map is not great either, I didn't want to set goal for this weekend, but in the end we (Justin and I ) tried to reach Alta peak, which is quite hard hike even in the summer. For all the mentioned reasons we just found a beautiful spot somewhere on the way with great views and enjoyed the weekend anyway!
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Dalsi skvely vikend ve snehu, tentokrat v narodnim parku Sequoia! Moje zkusenost s dosazenim planovanych cilu pro zimni kempovani neni zrovna pozitivni. Jelikoz vetsina cest neni v zime znacena a jelikoz hadani smeru z mapy nema taky zrovna dobre vysledky, tak jsme ani nechtela urcit cil pro tento vikend, ale nakonec jsme se (Justin a ja) pokouseli dosahnout Alta peak, coz je tezky vyslap i v lete. Kvuli zminenym duvodum jsme ale jen nasli nadherne misto na kempovani s prekrasnymi vyhledy a uzili si vykendu i tak.
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Yosemite 13.-14.3. 2010

This weekend was organize by mountaineering meetup group. On Friday evening about 25 people were supposed to meet at camp 4 and enjoy the winter in Yosemite together. In the end not all 25 people arrived and not all camped. I drove with Martin and Jericho (one member who needed ride) and because it was snowing quite hard on Friday night we decided to get tent cabin in Curry Village and in the end we stayed there even the second night. On Saturday we all went to Dewey Point. Martin and I rented cross country skis. It was great day. The only downside was that we had to be back by 4 pm to return our equipment. In the evening we took our dinner (sausages) and wine form which we made Czech specialty - hot spicy wine and joined the group at the camp by fire. The plan for the next day was to go to Mirror lake and part snowy creek trail, but the camp group changed their decision and we didn't see them that day. Martin did something with his leg when he fell the previous day so we walked really slowly, but in the end we made it to nice lunch spot with great view and we even hiked up little bit more after the lunch. We left Yosemite relatively early, especially considering the fact that the time changed this weekend and we lost one hour! :)
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Tento vylet byl organizovany skupinou horolezcu. V patek vecer se melo sejit 25 lidi v Camp 4 a uzit si zimu v Yosemitech dohromady. Nakonec to dopadlo uplne jinak. Ne vsech 25 lidi se dostavilo a ne vsichni kempovali. Ja jsem jela s Martinem a Jericho (clen, ktery potreboval odvoz) a protoze v patek v noci docela dost snezilo, rozhodli jsme se si vzit kabinku v Curry village a nakonec jsme tam zustali i na druhou noc. V sobotu sli vsichni na Dewey point. Martin a ja jsme si pujcili bezky. Byl to super den, jedinne minus bylo, ze jsme museli byt zpet ve 4, abychom vratili lyze zpet. Vecer jsme si vzali veceri (parky) a vino, ze ktereho jsme udelali cesky svarak a sli za skupinou do kempu. Plan na druhy den byl Mirror lake s castecnym vystupem na snowy creek. Skupina z kempu ale zmenila plany a tak jsme se s nima uz nepotkali. Martin si udelal neco s nohou, kdyz predhozi den spadl a tak jsme sli velice pomalu. Nakonec jsme se ale dostali na pekne misto na obed s vyhledem a po jidle jsme dokonce i vysli o neco vyse. Z Yosemite jsme odjizdeli pomerne brzy, zvlaste kdyz vezmeme v uvahu, ze se menil cas a ukradli nam hodinu! :)
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Sierra at Tahoe 6.3.2010

With my big trip to Tanzania and preparation for marathon I didn't push to hard to get on the slopes for downhill skiing this season, but when there was a chance to go at least for one day I didn't hesitate. I drove with Martin and Ryan and met up with Petra and Miro at Sierra at Tahoe. Great day!
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Kvuli memu velkemu vyletu do Tanzanie a priprave na maraton jsem se nejak nesnazila jet lyzovat tuto sezonu, ale kdyz se vyskytla sance alespon na jeden den na svazich tak jsem nevahala. Jela jsem s Martinem a Ryanem a potkala se s Petrou a Mirem na Sierra at Tahoe. Super den!
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Vancouver - Olympic Games 13.2. - 21.2. 2010

I always wanted to see Olympic Games so when I found out that I have one week of holidays the same time as the first week of Olympic Games in Vancouver the decision for my holiday destination was easy! On top of that my friend Iva lives there so I had another excuse to go and visit her. I was wondering how busy and crazy it can get in Olympic city, but it wasn't too bad. I went to see Ice hockey (Czech republic against Slovakia), Alpine skiing, Figure skating training and two victory ceremonies. The atmosphere in Ice hockey was amazing, I had great tickets and I sat just a couple of meters from our Czech players and the ice. At the Figure skating I saw our skater Brezina and our dance couple and my favorite Evgeni Plushenko. The trip to see Alpine skiing was mainly to get out to Whistler and feel the atmosphere at such a race since none of Czech athletes are very good. The victory ceremonies had great atmosphere especially since both times I went there was and Canadian athlete who won gold medal! And of course checked out the Olympic flame and just walked around the city. The weather was great and I had great time.
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Vzdy jsem se chtela podivat na olympiadu a tak kdyz jsem zjistila, ze mam tyden prazdnin ve stejnou dobu jako prvni tyden Olympijskych her ve Vancouveru tak rozhodnuti o mych prazdninach bylo jednoduche! Navic moje kamaradka Iva tam bydli a tak jsem mela alespon dalsi vymluvu k jeji navsteve! Zajimalo me, jak divoke to bude v Olympijskem meste, ale nebylo to az tak hrozne. Byla jsem se podivat na ledni hokej (Ceska republika proti Slovensku), Alpske lyzovani, krasobruslarsky trening a dvoje vyhlasovani vytezu. Atmosfera na hokeji byla uzasna, zvlaste kdyz jsem mela dobre listky a sedela jsem jen par metru od ceske stridacky a ledu. Na krasobruslarskem treningu jsem videla nase krasobruslare Brezinu a tanecni par a meho oblibence Evgenije Plushenka. Vylet na Alpske lyzovani bylo hlavne abych se podivala do Whistleru a pocitila atmosferu na takovem zavode, zadny Cesky zavodnik totiz neni velice dobry. Vyhlasovani vitezu melo uzasnou atmosferu take, hlavne protoze jsem mela stesti a v obou pripadech jsem tam byla, kdyz Kanadsky zavodnik vyhral zlatou medaily! Samozrejme jsem se sla podivat na olympijsky ohen a prosla mestem. Pocasi bylo uzasne a ja jsem si to velice uzila!
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