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Dan Chissick - Israel - Back to fast orienteering

Back to fast orienteering

Today I ran at a local event my club organised at Lavi, about 50 minutes from home, on a map I made in 1999. As club chairman I had the privilege of running early in the morning in an empty forest, before it got hot, to check all the controls…
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(and then sitting at the registration). It was a score event with a few special rules, and I managed to collect all the controls (about 6.5 km) in 51:32. My GPS track can be seen here - still with 10 second sampling from Slovenia. What a difference - fast and open forest, few rocks, and almost no undergrowth. If only the Slovenian weather would come here.We were very disappointed with the number of competitors - only 55, which I think is our lowest for several years. We were expecting 100-150. Lavi is one of the most attractive forests in summer,…

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