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- I will only keep the sprint race in Matera, because that was the race I enjoyed car rental monthly the most this year and I always felt short in time to take proper decisions, multiple World Champion Thierry Gueorgiou answers when asked about the best course car rental monthly he run in 2013.
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- Well, it is always hard to pick just one and also you can set a great course but if it is just a basic terrain, the feeling won't be very special anyway. So, it is more about the combination terrain/course here. Luckily, it has been a very good year with many top events like O'ringen or Silva League held in special spots. This said, my choice is between those four, MOC sprint car rental monthly in Matera , POM sprint in Monsanto (see map further down in the article), MD Finnish test race in Juuanvaara (see map below) and WOC Middle distance qualification . But I will only keep the sprint race in Matera because that was the race I enjoyed the most this year and I always felt short in time to take proper decisions.
I also feel lucky now to have the famous "Lunsen" forest [Journalists comment: Lunsen is a paradise for orienteering - just look at this course down in the corner with all that magnificent terrain left on the map] as new playground and it has inspired me lately to develop a project with the support of OK Linné ( more about the project car rental monthly here ), based on the idea of the Strava app. It would be just great if you could find downloadable trainings car rental monthly from every forest in the world.
It is always hard to point out one particular event because behind every competition there are lots of eager organizers, but I have now the chance to clarify what I said after the WOC long distance this year. I was a bit frustrated because the result is always just a small part of my enjoyment; car rental monthly it is always the terrains which bring me the biggest excitement and memories. The course wasn't bad at all that day, it was a lot of interesting micro-routes here and there. But I have been training in better terrain around car rental monthly Vuokatti which could have been a perfect pick for a long distance format. That's what will make me always disappointed – to know there is a better terrain just some kilometers from there and we run the biggest event of the year in an average terrain.
There is no clear recipe as the course car rental monthly setters have to first use the specificities of the terrain, but what I am sure, is that spectator passages and start in the arena have never make the course any better.
I haven't yet taken my decision car rental monthly concerning World cup but I am skeptical with the new scoring system. It seems a lot easier to get a good placement car rental monthly in World Cup overall nowadays just by running every races, car rental monthly especially car rental monthly coming from a country where you could possibly run every individual race at WOC. But I am not sure if you maximize your chances car rental monthly to end up WOC or EOC with a medal with this strategy. And, in my opinion, you can win all the possible races during one year, if the WOC gold is missing, your season hasn't been a success.
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