WOC Training camp 3 - June 2011

2/3 of the South African Squad selected to go to world champs in August are attending the last official training camp in Aix-Les-Bains France. Jeremy Green and Nicholas Mulder are orienteering on terrain and maps similar to that which will be used for world champs in August (http://www.woc2011.fr/) in an attempt to get familiar with the terrain, mapping style and what training is necessary between now and then.

The trip started off with the a race on Saturday where, as they were flying into the area that morning, Jeremy and Nick requested late starts. Little did they know that with a first start at 12h30 and 1 minute start intervals, they would start at 16h55 and 16h59.
(http://annecyso.fr/)
It was the regional middle distance champs and both Nick and Jeremy were happy with their performance on the day.

Here is Jeremy's map with course and track.
Check out attackpoint.com for commentary on the race.

However with the extremely late starts, but the time they finished and got ready to go shopping for food for breakfast, nothing was open anymore... the start of the challenge for day 2.

On the way to the start after a walk around the town of Annecy as we drove from the 400m height of the town to over 1600m start position. This was a view of the surrounding mountains en route with the town below on the shore of the lake.


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