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Selection-races for WOC

Last weekend it was Norwegian and Swedish selection-races for WOC in middle- and long-distance near Skövde in Sweden. The terrain was hilly but with quite good runability, like Silkeborg in Denmark where WOC will be held the first week of August.SaturdayÂ’s middle-distance went OK for me. My shape felt quite…
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good, but I lost around 15 seconds several places. Hans Gunnar Omdal ran again very good, and won with more than one minute. I came 5th, 2 min behind. ResultsSundayÂ’s long-distance went also quite good. I tried to take good route-choices and make the orienteering easy and safe. Succeed quite well, but lost a bit too much time at the last loop. It was very tight in the top, with 5 runners in less then one minute. Anders Nordberg won in front of Audun Hultreen Weltzien, Holger Hott Johansen, Hans Gunnar Omdal and Øystein Kristiansen. I came 6th, again 2…

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