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The art of the butterfly
My Trondheim Sprint Cup campaign last year ended with me dropping from 3rd place to 6th or 7th in the last 500m loop before the finish of the chase style final. This year I havent even qualified for the final since Ive only run 2 of the preliminary rounds and…
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was disqualified at one of those for punching too fast. BUT Ive just realised, having seen the crazy butterfly loops (wasp loops?) on the Swiss teams long/middle selection race, TSC has given me some valuable butterfly practise. There is a skill to keeping calm and orienteering (not just compassing) to the correct control. A skill which I definitely did not have in 2 long races last year with butterflies; Pinse at Hamar (180 degree error leaving map exchange/ central control) and EOC Long final (missed the central control every time, losing increasing amounts of time with each miss).Butterfly loops seem…
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