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Pasi Ikonen - KurkoCup it`s HOT again

KurkoCup it`s HOT again

Hi everyone! Training has been quite easy (5-10h/week) during October. Now its time to get back in the business again, because its useless to relax too much. Im focusing on couple of things this winter: 1) strength training (back and abdomen mainly) 2) lots of (useful!) easy aerobic training (skiing,…
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running etc.) 3) developing my speed on hard surface 4) mental preparing (to win medals in WOC2007:-)) But at the moment Im also doing o-training and in fact, competing hard. KurkoCup (Kings Cup in english) is a mass-start night-orienteering series in Jyväskylä. The league consists of seven competitions with the length of 30-60min and there are quite a lot big names running it. During this autumn for example Jani Lakanen, me, Jonne Lakanen, Juha-Matti Huhtanen, Jouni Kahelin, Jarkko Liuha, Juha Sorvisto and Timo Joensuu (all among the 40 best in Finland) have raced in KurkoCup. The first five are running…

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