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Saturday, July 15, 2006
Some advice from Mats Troeng and Gunilla Svärd
The Swedish 5-Days starts tomorrow. Today I got some advice from Mats Troeng and Gunilla Svärd on how to prepare for the races. It wasn't exactly personal advice, it was from interviews published in the sports section of today's Uppsala newspaper.
From Troeng:
Compared to a regular competition, it pays to be steady because it is such a long competition. You need to avoid any really bad performances and run safe races. It is important to prepare yourself mentally for that. But, of course it doesn't hurt to be well trained.
From Svärd:
You have to have a lot of training. You have to run for 5 days and one bad performance and you're out of it. You shouldn't try to win a day but just do five good races.
Good advice. Nothing new or different. But, it is always good to get a reminder.
I'm a bit worried about the race (which is usually a good thing for me) after having a bad training yesterday evening. I ran a course at Lunsen and got lost on two legs. So lost I had a real hard time relocating among all the 1 contour line knolls and small marshes.
If it is practical, I'll try to update this page from the 5-Days. If not, I probably won't post any updates until next Saturday.
posted by Michael |
2:57 AM
