Yesterday we headed to the one sprint map that they have available for training on. It was used for the Baltic Cup races held in May this year and many of the Danish and Swedish team members raced it. The boys ran the M21E course and the girls ran the W21E course, although James made me a special course cos I had looked at the Baltic Cup races quite a lot on my training runs (thanks Lizzie :D ), and Nick was still feeling crook so he didn't run either. Was really good to be able to do training out of terrain for a day and do some faster, quick thinking navigation. Also the proportion of urban areas to forest terrain and the climb is about the same as the actual JWOC Sprint so it was quite a relevant map in that sense. There were some quite tricky long route choice legs that were debated long afterwards, particularly legs 8-9 and 16-17 on the men's course and 9-10 and 12-13 on the women's course.
Spent the rest of the day sorting out our team posters and stocking up on food for the week since we don't have the vans after today (so we are reliant on the event transport for the rest of the week and our hotel is too far away from the town to walk there).
Today we spent the morning sorting out our accreditation and handing in which start block we want to start in for the sprint. We all got given JWOC b
ackpacks complete with a mini statue of some 'famous' guy that we all get to keep...think his name is Jakub Wejher. Then off to the model event where
most of us just walked around the controls, doing a final check of the terrain before we start racing. We noticed that many of the pits are unmapped, despite looking quite big.
Most of the team are off printing out the posters, but apart from that we have just spent the day relaxing around the hotel and resting up our legs for the first race on Sunday! :D
We have the Sprint model tomorrow and the Opening Ceremony in the evening. Start lists should also be posted online sometime tomorrow evening as well.
Swimming after relay training
Mass start for relay training
Since you have no transport, I can help out on Sun/Mon. But there is only room for one extra random to and from events, but can do a shuttle when at the hotel.
ReplyDeleteSee you tonight!!