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Lauri Sild - Haanja Marathon

Haanja Marathon

Picture: Me after 7 kmLast weekend, 932 participants took part of the classical skiing marathon (check last post), which was a record for this mass-start event. Last year my place was 106th and I intended to improve that place to about 40th. The course is quite narrow and hilly already…
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from the beginning, but fortunately my number bib (64) gave me a position in the first group and I didn have exceptional problems forcing my way past the slower ones. The tempo in the beginning was rather fast and I didn want to fall too much behind either. After the first kilometers it was clear that my skis didn glide as well as they were supposed to. While I was being passed going downhill, the sight was quite the opposite going uphill. So on the climbs of the first 10 km I was often passing skiers that I had already…

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