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Dan Chissick - Israel - Double disappointment

Double disappointment

Yesterdays national event at Keren Hacarmel was drenched by an unusual amount of rain, which made it feel almost like Europe, and I was coming off a week of no training because of a sore throat, but I was disappointed twice:Disappointment no. 1 - my left shoeMy left shoe (a…
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2.5 year old VJ Falcon) came apart during the race, forcing me to DNF. With my rival Omer Noiman planning the courses, I expected to win H40 easily, and I was running well until about control no. 10, where the sole started disconnecting from the body and my shoe started behaving more like a flipper. At that point I discovered that concentrating on orienteering while trying to run funnily doesnt work, and I started making mistakes. I quit after control 16, when I had to stop running or risk losing the shoe altogether.Today I analysed the split times, and had…

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