NC Sport Cup #1. A mass-start forked race in Norrtalje with a pretty small field: just 17 people in elite, more than half from Linne, I think. Had a longer forking at the beginning and lost the lead pack and felt sluggish and tired the whole way. The terrain was not very technical, but my navigation still wasn't crisp and I wasted some time in control circles and just wasn't moving fast through the snow. Although my result wasn't particularly good, it was nice to navigate on my own some - it's been a while since I've done that in a day race. Results:
http://www.svenskidrott.se/Organisation.asp?WCI=wi...
After the race one of the coaches working with the Swedish team gave a presentation on training, talking about different stages of a training plan, peaking for big events, percentages of volume that should be devoted to base training, intervals, and so on. As his main source, he used what I believe was Kostylev's book on elite orienteering training, though it may have been some other Russian book, but I had definitely seen it before. This led me to ask Jan and Mats why Linne has no elite coach or anyone who helps make training calendars and works with athletes individually, and they had no good answer, saying only that no person that would fit the position well has been found.... Strange.