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Marcialonga in MN?
Marcialonga didn't seem flat to me. The profile indicates quite a bit
of climbing in the first 20 km or so. It sure seemed it to me on that weird glide-robbing man made snow. I think that Vasaloppet is significantly flatter with less over all elevation gain. Gary Gary Gary ... no :-) ML is a flatter and easier double pole race than vasa. I did both last year. ML has some sligt angle up to 18km, but still alot of flat there. After 18km (Canazei) the track follow a valley river so it's very flat and down. Only a noticeable climb at Moena. Look at Jannes MPGs. Vasa is flat for many miles but many irritating up and down between Risberg-Evertsberg, and then around Oxberg and Høkberg. I surely needed grip at many places. More important Gary, make 2006 your "next time doing classic ML" or what :-) |
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Lars wrote: Regarding little kick wax and Jannes Vasa videos. The elite doublepoled up many small hills that us others had to stride up. So the track is more up and down than the video shows from bird view. The I'm vaguely familiar with the course. I skied the oppet spar once in 1996 with my wife. It was roughly 0 C, plus or minus, for much of the day and kick was good sometimes, non-existent other times. We stopped a few times to adjust wax but that got old after a while. At one point we said the heck with it and DP'd for about 20 km until the kick came back again. My impression was that other than the one big hill at the start, it would not be too tough to DP the whole rest of the course. Which reminds me of, who, Staffan Larsen(?), who tried to do DP the whole thing some time ago, when he had a leg injury. He was well ahead of the lead pack most of the way, too. elite did also have very little grip during the last 30km or so. When Aukland strides up a small hill in the end he "walks on his arms" with very little grip. This is what's puzzling me. Walking on arms is really difficult without decent grep. Wouldn't it be easier to not even try, leave the kick wax out entirely, and just DP the ups? Marcialonga is so much flatter than Vasa some racers use very little grip. ML is not only flat it's slightly downhill... I gotta try that one some day. I'm a DP addict. :-) -Mitch |
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