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Disappointing performance at the WOC-sprint

Yesterdays WOC-sprint in Ã…rhus was a disappointment for me. I did a really bad performance, and got 19th place, 58 seconds behind Emil Wingsted. The course was nice and I am in good shape, but I destroyed the race at a bad route-choice.The qualification went well. It was many short…
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legs around the stadium, in the Amusment Park and in Mindeparken. Between the short legs it was some long legs with easy orienteering in the forest. I did no big mistakes, and was 4th in my heat, without runing with maximum speed. The final started also quite well, and the short legs in the botanic garden went OK. But on the long leg to the 10th control I didnÂ’t see all the passages around the horse-track, and ended up with running around both the track and fence to the left. The best was to run almost straight on, and then…

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