Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Sunday, May 09, 2004 More WOC preparationA few days ago I wrote about how the Norwegian team was practicing scenarios for the WOC relay, today I'll add a note about how one of the Swedish team is preparing for the WOC.On the morning of this weekend's Swedish elite series sprint race, Karolina A. Hojsgaard ran her own sprint race. In the afternoon, she ran (finishing 2nd) the elite series race. Running the morning race was practice for the WOC. The WOC will have a qualifying and final sprint race on the same day, followed by the long final the next day. Here is a bit of a newspaper report about Hojsgaard's race: To prepare for this year's WOC races, where the qualifying and final sprint race are on the same day, Karolina decided to run a race this morning. The idea was from the national team leader, Goran Andersson, but Karolina was the only one who ran the morning race. "But it was set up like a real competition. There was a start, marked route, race number and finish chute..." said Karolina. You can see a short video from the sprint race, including a short interview with Hojsgaard, on the SOFT web page. I suppose simulating the WOC schedule isn't a bad idea. I guess I'm skeptical that it makes much difference, but it probably doesn't hurt. If it works (i.e. if you try it and have a good result), it'd probably help your confidence. It it doesn't work (i.e. if you screw up either the morning or afternoon race), it'd give you something to work on. posted by Michael | 7:46 PM 
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