Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Wednesday, October 02, 2002 A few thoughts from BjornarBjornar Valstad tied for second at the European Champs long (aka classic) race.Check out the map with Valstad's routes. I translated some what he wrote on his homepage:* Even though the results so far at the European Champs have been disappointing, I felt good before the start of yesterday's race. The classic distance is my best and my form felt good (even though the results from earlier races might suggest otherwise). My race was good, but I'm still making too many mistakes to be able to fight for the gold. I was in the lead at the 11th control, but then I boomed a minute.... I've been losing between two and three minutes on booms. That isn't good enough. I probably don't deserve a gold. But, it felt good to have flyt in my technique and to be fighting in the top again. The map from Hungary looks interesting. The area is very close to the area used for the World Champs in 1983 (the qualifying race for this year's classic used an area that was used in 1983). The terrain looks "neutral" to me. By neutral I mean not extreme -- not super-detailed nordic terrain or extreme continental terrain. It looks like there was a lot of trail running (at least by Valstad). In looking at his route, I only see one leg (7-8) where a trail route looks decent but Vladstad didn't use trails. The women's course doesn't seem to offer as much trail running. Certainly Hanne Staff -- her routes are shown -- ran much less of her race on trails than Valstadt did. * My Norwegian is a bit rough, so I may have missed something in what Bjornar wrote. My apologies if I did. posted by Michael | 8:20 PM 
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