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Old February 28th 05, 07:31 PM
Nevalainen, Eric
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This was really bad on some of the small rollers at Mora (at least from
my point of view in the 35k) can't imagine what it would have been like
in the later Birkie waves.....


by far the biggest mistake that i saw was in terms of what i call

racing technique, that is how a racer skis in a given terrain,
especially in transitions. this is kind of a big deal in the birkie
because that course is
entirely transition (the lake and a couple consistent climbs being

obvious exceptions). the people i skied
with are in shape - they were hammering up the hills. but i didn't see

_anyone_ push hard into the bottom of a hill, push hard over the top of
a hill, push hard into a downhill to gain momentum, push hard after a
downhill to keep momentum etc. etc. what i saw was a litany of people
hammering a V1 up a hill, getting tired and
coasting over the top, coasting down the other side until their

momentum stopped on the next uphill and then
they'd have to start their hammering V1 from scratch. people! so many

of you were losing so much time in the
transistions. not such an issue at the mora vasaloppet, but on the

birkie course... there is so much benefit
from the little extra work of two or three hard V2 pushes in the

transitions.










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