Sorry, translation in progress…we have birth.  Oskar was born yesterday :))

Moja prva prava razdalja

Randomly found photo reminded me that I actively cycle for 20 years ! 4^th  May 2014 marks 20 years since the day when there was in the Hall of sports in Kranj a promotional show for the first visit of Giro d’Italia in Slovenia. A few days after the show i did, with a mountain bike I bought with popular moneycash compensation, cycle with others involved in the organisation of Giro in Slovenia all the way from Rateče (Italian border in NW of Slovenia) to Nova Gorica (Slovenia SW border).  It was about 220 km and I found that .. cycling is a great fun !

Whole story started when my company Studio OREH, as sponsors Sava Cycling Club, got a chance to participate actively in the organization of the first arrival of 77^th Giro d’Italia in Slovenia ( 11^th and 12^th stage , 5 to 6 June 1994) . We have taken graphic design, all print, all promotional materials and appearances, press conferences , manufacture and installation of promotional posters along the route , graphic design and preparation of the accompanying vehicles and many more. Then my company was only 5 years old , we had 5 employees and all this work has been a major challenge , greta learning and pleasure . I can honestly say that I have successfully done ” faculty for event organisation”.

In general, it was apparent that the organisation was by old skilful men like  Jelko Kacin, Francis Hvasti , Beno Hvala, Tomo Levovnik and a number of team assistants. Me and Boris were Slovenian contact to Italian team for placeing start equipment of 12.Stage. You can’t see this teams in officila show presentations of Giro. The teams are divided into two separate groups. One sets only the Finish place, the other sets the start place. First team (Finish place of the 11th Stage) came very early and decorated the driveway with banners and set the Finish space . After closing ceremony they immediately started cleaning the and already around 22.00 went on . Right behind them the Start team began mounting place for Start of 12 Stage and by morning everything was ready. One would shurely ask: “What the hell the Slovenian organisation tema did whole time?” The answer is short – everything else !

My main experience in working as a memeber of organisational committee was, that it is very important the composition of the technical team that is the absolute law – pyramid responsibility and that this applies military regime . Forever I’ll remember  the last sentence of Franc Hvasti who gave it to us at the closing meeting of the organizing committee . He said : ” Tomorrow, let each of you do his job , but if you notice that something else is not as it should be, IMMEDIATELY do everything to solve it without thinking about who is to blame ! ” . This guidance leeds me nowdays in the organization of the event as Rekretaur is.

Here are some photos of our cycling from Rateče to Nova Gorica done by my ancient automatic camera and scanned for this opportunity

Towards Giro – front of the column

Towards Giro – peloton with Cycling clubs

Me on my first bike

Towards Giro – City Hall, Ljubljana

Bear on Golica Tour?!

Bear from the headline of this news is from some other times. I chose the title because it is characteristic for contemporary media to publish news with atractive headlines. And if it’s good for them why not for me ( good title means truth in the article? ). So I used their cunning  and my news goes like:
Latest news that there is a bear somewhere on a cycling route of Golica Tour  stand for real! A terrible beast, obviously hungry and thirsty first overcome the Belly Team as they looked the most delicious. Right behind them he turned to an OiOPČJ team that worked the most tired . A pasque turned up the power in their legs and the girls are suddenly flew as a wind . It was pure randomown  that in this delicate moment there came a hunter Jake and held pasque on the sight of his eyes and rifle. It turns out , however, that the terrible beast had a lot more pleasure with honey products than with meat ( well, the girls from OiOPČJ took his most attention .

The truth of this story is that me and Boris did on the first Golica Tour (2011) prepare appropriate animation on the highest point of the route and caused laugh and good humor to all participant cyclists!
Here’s how cheerily they relived bear attack :

First he tasted Belly Team memeber..

..then he attacked girls from OiOPČJ team..

..but the beautiful girls seduced him.

Jake the hunter has an eye and rifle pointed all the time on pasque..

Applications oa Golica Tour are still open.  The bear has gone of course:-)

Valter Bonča as a professional cyclist

I’m very pleased to announce that we have succeeded  in our efforts to prepare Rekreatur participants a superb bicycle service. It’s Bonča Cycling Centre from Idrija, led by none other than former professional cyclist Valter Bonča .

Valter was one of the best Slovenian road cyclists of the last 15 years . In 1992, he became the fourth Slovenian professional ( after Vinko Polončič , Primoz Čerin and Jure Pavlič ) as a contestant of  Joly  club from Italy. The same year he attended the Olympic Games in Barcelona. His greatest successes : winning the Tour of Austria (1989 and 1992) . In 1994, he appeared at the Giro d’Italia , which ran through Slovenia. In 1995, he won race Tour de Slovenie. In May 2003, he won Grand Prix Maribor ( as a contestant of Perutnina Ptuj club) . In 2006, for the second time in a row, he won the Grand Prix Kranj  and on 25th June after wining the national championship at Gabrje, closed his sport path .

During Rekreatur Valter and his guys from Bonča Cycling Centre will be all times between us. Their  workshop will be at start-finish  area  and during “the race” he  they will be presented in every checkpoint. Beside professional advices you’ll be able to buy some bike supplies . Believe me that about cycling Valter knows everything. I expect that male cyclist will accede to his service when their impairment is more severe than replacing some cracked tubes . Only in this case you will look like serious rider who is worthy of his support. Male participants of Rekretaur are, of course allowed to aproach with a cracked tube also – we are gentlemens aren’t we

Tura pod Golico_vaja oživljanja ponesrečenca

Mislim, da med nami ni takšnega, ki nebi vedel, da prva pomoč, ki jo mi nudimo ponesrečencu lahko reši njegovo življenje! Če pa merim po sebi in krogu mojih prijateljev lahko samo ugotovim, da bi poneserečncu rad pomagal a se tega bojim. Bojim se, da ga bi še bolj poškodoval in strah me je misli, da bi takšnega ponesrečenca našel sam nekje na kakšni gozdni cesti. Glede na to, da so mene že dvakrat na ta način reševali in v obeh primerih ne vem kdo, se že dolgo časa pripravljam, da bi kolesarjem Rekreatura  ponudil priložnost, da si pridobijo osnovne veščine oživljanja in nudenja prve pomoči.

Prve korake v to smer sem naredil lansko leto na prireditvi Tura pod Golico, ko so nam te veščine s praktično uporabo pokazali člani GRS Jesenice. In vsi, ki so se uspeli v oživljanju preizkusiti, so bili navdušeni! In ko se voz premakne z mesta, ga očitno težko ustaviš. V eni izmed ekip Rekreatura 2013 je kolesarila tudi Lili Žura, ki je s pomočjo strokovnjakov Zdravstvenega doma Kranj, pripravljena moji želji ustreči saj tudi njim veliko pomeni, da smo ljudje vešči oživljanja in nudenja prve pomoči.

Zato vas 19. marca 2014 od 19.00 – 21.00 ure vabim v Kranj kjer nam bodo strokovnjaki razložili in nas usposobili v osnovah prve pomoči. Za vsak termin je prostora za 20 ljudi, zato bo veljal sistem – kdor prej pride, prej melje. In seveda – tečaj je BREZPLAČEN za prijavljene udeležence Rekreatura 2014.  Prijavili se boste tako, da mi na andrej@studio-oreh.si pišete izbrani termin in koliko vas bo.

Po masaži srca sledi umetno dihanje

Prijavljeni na tečaj osnov prve pomoči:
19.03./ prostih  še 9 mest / Andrej Zalokar, Milena Zalokar, Marko Lesjak, Marta Štremfelj, Andreja Zalokar, Tomaž Štefe, Katja Pegam, Mateja Zalokar, 5x Ta Leteče, Ana Jekovec, Janez Slavec

Do tega trenutka je na Rekreatur prijavljenih 34 ekip ali 233 kolesarjev. Dosegli smo 72,81% števila predvidenih prijav.