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Sandra Zurcher - Becoming a master at...

Becoming a master at...

The 2008 orienteering season is over for me and I have to admit, I have not yet mastered the sport of orienteering. This season has had a lot of ups and downs and even though I have seen progress in my ability, I am not satisfied with where I am.…
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I want more, I want to become better. But do we really ever master a task, or does the inner perfectionist in us always drive us to try to become even better. I wonder if Simone Niggli or Thierry Gueorgiou feel like they have mastered orienteering. Probably not, with every race different from the next, there is a continuous search for perfection. I have decided to try to master something else and I have gone back to school in exercise science and hopefully in two years time I will have a Master?s degree. At least this tunnel has a light…

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18.08: Judith Wyder Facebook

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18.08: Yannick Michiels Facebook

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10.08: Yannick Michiels Facebook

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08.08: Daniel Hubmann Facebook

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08.08: Judith Wyder Facebook

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