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Sandra Zurcher - ½ way point at the World Orienteering…

½ way point at the World Orienteering…

The World Championships consist of four disciplines: sprint, middle, and long distance and a relay. Each discipline has a qualification race and the top 15 in each of the three heats run in the final. The relay does not have a qualification race. I was selected to run all the…
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disciplines this year, including the relay. If things were to go optimally it would have meant running 7 races in 8 days. On Sunday July 13th I competed in the Sprint qualification. I was already pretty nervous a few days in advance and really had to work hard to get myself into the right state of mind. I managed this and the beginning of my race went well. The race was quite simple, which meant you had to run really fast. I must have run over my limit and in the state of my oxygen debt I skipped a control,…

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