I have been in
Europe for the past six days to start my preparations for the Canadian team
trials, WOC, and WUOC. After getting injured at Sage Stomp earlier this spring my
foot is almost back to 100% and I am back
into training after 3 weeks of no running. I will be training in Italy until
the Canadian Team Trials at the end of June where I hope to qualify for the WOC
team. Following WOC I will fly to Scotland for a training camp with the Canadian
team to see what the WOC 2015 terrain has in store. After the camp I will head
to Czech Republic for Silesia Grand Prix for a few races before I start my
final preparations for WUOC.
I have already done several great trainnigs in Venice,
Venezia, Asiago and Censuna (Kubelek). I will start training with the other
Canadian athletes in Lavarone tomorrow until the Canadian Team Trials(
Alpe Adria Cup) that will
be held in and near Conegliano.
One thing that is always hard to understand when I fly over to Europe for orienteering is the amount of high quality maps that they have withing running distance of the towns and cities. It is so nice to be able to run on excellent maps virtually right out your backdoor. It is too bad that Canada does not have more maps closer to the major cities.
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| Venice Ultra Long Sprint...27km |
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| Have to get use to crossing the bridges over the canals |
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Nice day in Venice
Exploring Venice |
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| Vicenza Sprint |
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| Asiago-Long Sprint |
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| An orienteering billboard...only when in Europe |
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| Asiago |
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| Kubelek-Training #1 |
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| Kubelek-Training #2 |
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| Kubelek map right out our back door |
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| Accommodation |
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| The view from out accommodation |
Train on,
Damian
