BUT I'm not a xc skier and I prefer snow free surface, therefore the 10 days I spent in Portugal last week were an important part of the basis training.
I've had a sesamoiditis and I trained a lot on the spinning bike and in the swimming pool when I was in Kristiansand before leaving to Praia de Mira. Down there I could train well and usually did one o-training a day and a second training on the bike. This allowed me to work on my automatisms which were a little rusty after almost 1 month without orienteering.
The WRE on Sunday 14th was a important test to know where I stand right now. I did a good first part of the race and even if I was little bit slow out of the controls the o-speed was good. After the spectator control I made some mistakes and lost about 45'' in total. But the biggest surprise was a MP. At control 26 I punched and heard the bips but the badge didn't register the punching. According to IOF rule 20.5 I was disqualified. It looks like sportident had some problem lately with this and the WorldofO weekly poll is about this subject.
On Thursday 18th we joined the French team, Halden, IFK G and others for a relay training close to Praia de Mira. The terrain was really clean and allowed high speed orienteering at 4'/km. It was really fun to start with 35 other runners in such a training.
Then we headed south-east to Crato where NAOM took place. Unfortunately I got a food poison
ing the day before the WRE and wasn't able to run the race.
Now I'm back in Kristiansand for some easy days before I'll leave to Italy and MOC on Friday.
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