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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Sandvik's sprint preparation
Tore Sandvik wrote about some of his sprint preparation on his home page. If you can read Norwegian, take a look at the original article.
Sandvik has been spending some of his time in Japan using OCAD to draw his own map of the sprint area. He scanned an old 1:10,000 map of the terrain and has been drawing his map at the scale and contour interval for the race (which is, I think, 1:5,000 and 2.5 meters).
Here is my quick translation of some of what Sandvik wrote:
...it has given me a very good impression of the terrain, and at the same time I'm familiar with the map I'll run on tomorrow. There are probably few others who have done the same thing, and that is another advantage that I have over the others.
At the model event I "remembered" the area. I know it pretty well in my head. There were no surpises at the model event, it was what I'd expected.
I also have an idea of where I think the course will go tomorrow and I've set a lot of legs on my map. This sort of preparation has always been good for me.
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