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view from (the back of) the elite wave
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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