Training Log Archive: Spike

"After they announced the Sprint would be in Venice some years ago, it was easy to put this as my biggest goal. Sprint is still the 'easiest' discipline to prepare from home (still Belgium) in combination with distance running. The Qualification in Burano went like planned, with a victory in HEAT 3, putting me as last starter in the Final. I felt strong and in control, but I missed a small alley to control 7, losing 20 seconds and probably a medal. Still, my race after that was strong enough, finishing 7th in the world (a new PB both for myself and Belgium)."

- Yannick Michiels

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Work commute. I'd thought about going for a run, but my legs felt strange all day.

On the trip home, I biked through an area where I'm making a little training/sprint map. I wanted to check out a few things I'd seen on the base map.

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"How did we in Denmark get such succes on the sprint in Venice. It's very simple. We were best prepared. Tue had drawn a very detailed map of the entire area so we have made a lot of courses and legs on that map. Together with this and a lot of hours spent on google streetview we had confidence that we could handle whatever the course setter gave us. The only thing that could surprise us was fences which we knew there would be. So the job was to scan the route that we knew would be best for fences."

- Soren Bobach