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Sandra Zurcher - WOC 2009 -- 1 race down and…

WOC 2009 -- 1 race down and…

The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) started today with the middle distance qualification race. The top 15 in each of 3 heats qualified for the final, which will be on Wednesday August 19th. I ran the middle qualification today and am satisfied with my race. My concept for today was to…
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take safe routes, to always check everything off along the way and to prepare the control circle in advance. It takes a lot of mental energy not to get too nervous before the race or have expectations about the results or not to get distracted by others in the race at WOC. This was actually much harder than the orienteering itself. But I was able to achieve this today. I focused on myself and followed my concept. The results was a decent race with only small errors and 13th place in my heat. This means I made the final!! Making…

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