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World Cup in Idre with tight mass-start

TodayÂ’s Middle distance with mass-start in the ski-orienteering World Cup in Idre started well for me. I took my own route choice to the first control, and was among the first runners on most of the first loop. But in a steep down hill at the end of the first…
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loop I fall and broke one of my skiing poles. I lost almost one minute before I got a new pole when we passed the stadium for the map exchange. The two last loops went OK, but I lost some time on a few bad short cuts and in the double poling in the steep uphills with scooter tracks. It was a lot of short cuts between the skiing tracks, and not easy to choice the best one. I finished as 17th runner, 3 minutes behind Peter Arnesson from Sweden. Marte Reenaas was in the lead in the womenÂ’s class…

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