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Broken at World Champs Sprints

The first intensive weekend at the World Orienteering Champs has passed, along with some time to reflect on it. Three races of roughly 15 minutes each within 2 days takes the juice out of most orienteers. How many 5000m runners would agree to triple over a weekend?! After a cumbersome…
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spring and a nagging injury throughout the summer I was unable to reach a fitness/self-confidence level to fight for the sprint medals although I am satisfied with having the lightest legs on the most important day so far this summer! During the WOC sprint races I didn’t quite seem to have the flow with me: in the sprint final I was blocked by a moving car, in the sprint relay I suffered a head-on collision with an unmindful photographer. These are incidents which one would hope the organizers would have prevented, but since in sprint orienteering we’re racing in an…

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