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Poles are too long on rockhard classic course!
An goofy thing was that on the rock-hard Vasa trail my poles felt way
too long in the GT classic race. It's because the tracks were the usual 2" deep but when you poled alongside them, your poles didn't sink in at all! Making poles effectively about 2" longer than usual! It seemed quite bad the very few times I could diagonal stride. The longer poles were no problem when DPing. But I had to plant the baskets further back when striding and had to think about doing so and that was lame--messes with your swing. If a course like that had lots of moderate uphill---meaning, lots of striding---one would be smart to use shorter poles. (If the course had been the original instead of rerouted due to lack of snow then it would've had much more striding.) It's crazy all the sets of equipment this sport involves. (Maybe you'd just use your dryland poles? Coz aren't they supposed to be shorter?) --JP |
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