Anders wrote:
On Dec 15, 8:47 pm, Terje wrote:


Since Terje is mysteriously silent despite Petter Northug having the
best distance race of his life in Davos, I'll take this opportunity to

"Best distance race of his life", after winning the previous world cup
race in Finland?
What do you mean?

"The best distance race of his life in Davos." Do you say "en hund
begraven" in Norwegian, too?

His previous best in Davos was a 34th and last year he finished 55th.

OK, here's the problem!

You really should have written "best Davos distance race of his life" if
that was what you meant, instead of the way you wrote it which really
implies that it was his best race ever, and just happened to take place
in Davos. :-)

It could be that he doesn't really thrive in such mid-season, non-
championship altitude races and that the course in Davos doesn't suit
him because its potentially lethal "first up until you're dead after
the first loop if you're not careful, then down but without any real
recovery" nature hits his physique, physiology and psyche harder than
some others.

That's very probable, Petter is not what the Norwegian commentators call
a "capacity skier", i.e. someone with a huge Max O2 who likes to press
very hard the entire race. Instead he has the ability to tolerate
extremely varied speeds, which implies that he does better with
short-term anaerobic overload, allowing very quick recovery afterwards.

Seems like one of those "one country hit the wax, the others didn't"
races, and most of those have indeed been in favor of Norway.

It also took some unexpected depth of field to get a result like that,

Sure.

Terje

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