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Hills, holes & Hungarian horsechestnuts

Those crowned World Champions in Hungary next year will have to run like the wind whilst wrapping their minds around complicated route choice conundrums. The long distance will be planned by Hungarys most feared course setter and will have several long legs of up to 2.5 km. If the navigation…
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seems easy you probably arent going fast enough. Training in neighbouring terrain last week I got the impression that it would be possible to think youd had a good, clean race only to find you had lost considerable time all around the course just from not being quite on it, missing the bridges between holes by a few metres here, there and everywhere and not quite running the best lines. Only the fittest, fastest and most accurate orienteers will succeed! A training with some route choice problems. Think twice before climbing a mountain.Some loops to be executed with pin-point accuracy,…

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