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Reading about Liisa Veijalainen

Watching some of those Finnish O videos reminded me of a book Ive got sitting on my shelf about Liisa Veijalainen. Veijalainen won a WOC in 1976 and took 2nd in 1978 and 1979. The book is a Swedish translation of a book she and her husband wrote. I poked…
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around in the book a bit, looking at the maps and the photos. One thing that caught my eye was how little she trained. For the years

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