Long and Middle Distance

On the day of the long Jeremy and I dropped off Nic at the quarantine area and drove to the arena (with a slight detour for Jeremy's daily coffee run). Reading that Thierry would be in Nic's heat we knew that he wouldn't be happy (skewing of world ranking points). We were right when Nic came in and complained that he could have been a few places up if he had just run a bit faster.

The middle was a bit more exciting when we left the car at the quarantine area. Both Jeremy and I had forgotten our control description holders and strapping tape. This was not really the way that I wanted to start my first WOC race, but with the help of the Germans and the Canadians we were all set. I started in the first start group and fluffed the first control slightly. Other than around a 10 minute mistake on my long leg and around a 5 minute mistake on the other long leg I didn't have such a bad race. After all of the hype about the terrain the race was not as difficult as expected. Jeremy would have had 600 world ranking points had he not made a 6 minute mistake. Nic also complained about making some mistakes.

We have just done the sprint model in Chambery. It was pouring this morning (and is surprisingly sunny now) so the park there was a little slippery. Nic complained about the pretty poor map quality.

Some photos of the middle and long qualifications: (all pictures are from worldofo.com)