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POM 2016: Thierry Gueorgiou Long Distance WRE…

My strategy for this race was to avoid the green areas as much as possible, and therefore use a lot the tracks with sometimes less offensive orienteering. But safety pays most of time in this type of terrain.[Controls nº 1 and nº 2] I used the first two legs to…
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get into the race and see how the vegetation looked like. I was slowing down a lot in the control ring as I had struggle to understand what I was searching even with my magnifier glass.[Controls nº 3 to nº 6] I really enjoyed this part of the race and turned into “middle distance mode” – being a bit more offensive while using the biggest rocky features close to the controls to keep a fast speed all the way.[Control nº 7 to nº 13] All those legs had more or less the same profile: you could simplify quite much the…

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