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Dan Chissick - Israel - What goes down, must come up

What goes down, must come up

Unless its the stock market, of course. But if the start of the course is at the top of Mt Deborah (near Nazareth), then the way back is going to be a slog (by Israeli standards). This is my route from yesterdays national event, in which I took my usual…
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second place (H40) in 1:12:48 for 6.56km.Its a new map, and a good one too (thanks to Uzi for the hard work), though my opinion is that there are too many varieties of green on it. The course didnt use the terrain well, and I think there should have been much more fine orienteering. I didnt lose time finding any controls, and my mistakes were in veering too far to the left on the way to 2, and choosing the long way round to 8 (about a minute slower than straight, according to the split times).Physically, I was far from…

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