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After the good KOK-party on Friday, the rest of the weekend was more serios for the runners. KOK’s Night Sprint Cup was on the plan for Saturday, and a nice middle distance in Bringsvær needed to be prepared for Sunday.

Night Sprint Cup – it’s kind of intern competition in KOK, with prologue, qualifications, semi-final and final, where most of the best runners participated. Interestingly, Daniel Hubmann didn’t made it to the finals, neither do I : on the way to the last control in the qualification, Eirik Svensen parked me and didn’t left me any chance to qualify. Three seconds from the big final, but … I need to train more sprinting in the future!

The B-finals started with semi final : Daniel Hubmann vs. me. My tactic was simple: run as fast as you can, find the controls with no mistakes. I took the lead on the first control, but then I missed my headlamp in a dense forest, which took me a minute to fix. But, I need to be reallistic, and hope that the next time I can lead at least to the second control :) Hubi won clearly, by the way (and as expected).

Today we had a middle distance in Bringsvær on the plan. I was responsible for making the course and putting out the controls, and I believe the training was good. The terrain in Bringsvær is extremely nice, with wet marshes and interesting orienteering. Probably the best terrain in Sørlandet?

My body is fully recovered after the last week’s flu, and now I’m looking forward to my first training camp this year – Camp Norway in Halden. Better late than never.

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After one quite alright start of the new training season (I started it on the 1st of October), 32 trainings and 35 training hours in October, I had some bigger plans for November. Unfortunately, some sickness is trying to stop me now.

I planned a training camp this weekend in Bringsvær – in probably the best terrain in South Norway, but I’m staying at home instead – coughing like hell. Last weekend I got some fever, and took a couple of days off – and I’m still not back in training. Boring.

Otherwise, the planning for the next season is almost done. It looks like I have lots to look forward to! I’m starting with Kick-off training camp in Kristiansand next weekend, and then a trip to Halden for the first Camp Norway. Looks good!