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The one with the Sprinting...

On Monday afternoon, we had a sprint practice and I really cant say anything more about this training. As a trainer I went into the map area to observe and make points on our elite runners. I found a really good spot where I could see controls 5, 18 and…
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19 and was able to identify a few basic sprint mistakes, and Ill just write them down hereIn a sprint always go the shortest way, ie a STRAIGHT line. Its amazing how many people forget this rule. Always know before you get to a control the direction in which you will run away from the control, stopping to examine this point only wastes time. Always check your control number and control description - in a sprint its a small area with many controls - so the area for mispunching is huge.I had a nice run after everybody had left, however…

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