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2000 Metres High

Last weekend I was one of four Brits at the World Cup finals in Arosa, Switzerland. After following up my pinball SM relay by being utterly defeated by a local middle distance course the week after, I decided my races would be about experience, not performance. My first time high…
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in the Swiss Alps, it was a new experience! Arosa is some 1800m above sea level and it seems I’m sensitive to this altitude, losing my usual (sizeable) appetite and finding it difficult to eat throughout the trip. But despite that and an unconvincing attempt at the training map, I was too in awe of the surroundings to worry. We read in the bulletin that the winners would each take home their own replica of the wooden benches dotted about the slopes. Ha, good luck with that, I thought, whoever it is.Despite modest expectations, Friday’s long distance was actually worse…

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