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Dan Chissick - Israel - Slovenia - land of depression(s)

Slovenia - land of depression(s)

Yesterday was our first day of training in Slovenia, courtesy of Simon Miklavcic and his Cerkno Cup training camp. The only people at the training camp are our group of Israelis and two Slovenian youths, so its a very informal affair.Both training courses yesterday were on similar maps - dense…
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forest, rocky, steep, and millions of Karstic depressions. The runnability is very slow, theres almost no way to read the map without stopping, and the orienteering is tough and unforgiving. In short, as Simon describes it: heaven. It took me about three controls to get my Slovenian skills back, and then I jogged through the first course (sample above) at about 16 min/km. And thats a very respectable pace here. The second course was slower, as Id picked up a couple of knocks (right knee and left thigh) and I was taking it easy, and also I made a couple…

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