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Miguel Silva - Learning a whole new sport...

Learning a whole new sport...

This week Ive been in a training camp with my club, CPOC, in the Helsinkii region. Weve been training twice a day, in the morning with permanent controls organized by my great friend Juuso Metsala and his brother Tuomas and in the afternoon, in the trainings of the Finnish teams…
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with controls and Emit (it´s fantastic to have this kind of trainings during the week with more than 100 athletes).This has been the best training camp ever! In the beginning I had disappointing results. It was really difficult to get used to this kind of terrain, so much different from the Portuguese fast kind. It has been great to me, once my biggest difficulty is to maintain contact with the map. Here, loosing contact is missing a control. Ive found that re-localization is an essential skill in which I have still too much to learn.This was todays training, the test…

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