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Up and down at O-festivalen
Last weekend Norways biggest orienteering event O-festivalen was held near Gardermoen, 50 km north of Oslo. For the senior elite it was selection-race for the WOC-sprint on Friday, middle distance at Saturday and relay at Sunday. The terrain was both flat with many paths and hillier with thicker vegetation. Many…
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of the best runners from other nations were also running, so it was a great competition. FridayÂ’s sprint was one of my worst sprint-races for several years. I did some smaller mistakes to the first controls and a big parallel-mistake to the 5th control. I followed a path in 90 degrees wrong direction from the control and lost around one minute. The rest of the race was OK, but it didnÂ’t help, and I ended at 18th place. Audun Weltzien did a fantastic race, and won with 26 sec to Hans Gunnar Omdal. Results SaturdayÂ’s middle-distance went much better for…
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