Today we went up to a map called Calaita. Todays focus was to work on some long distance practice. The map was quite steep in places, but very manageable. There was a lot of rock and contour detail, which will be good practice for the races next week. Some of us did a lot of route choice exercises, especially for controls 9 to 10 - around the track seemed to be the quickest, even though it looked longer. Mark went straight and Tom went on the track, Tom ended up beating Mark to the control by about 7 minutes.
After training we decided to go to the stream on the map to ice our legs, it was definitely icy! Whilst down at the stream, the boys decided to build a mighty solid dam - the town in the valley below are currently experiencing a water crisis.
As always, up at the map, around lunchtime, the thunderstorms began to echo around the valley. We were beginning to get a little worried about the sprint being around the same time when it is rather wet.
In the arvo, we chilled, watched some movies, got some Gelato and just wandered around town.
More teams are beginning to arrive, we have seen the British, Irish, Swedes and the Aussies training around Primiero.
I guess your 'headspace' will all be getting into competing mode? We 'Morrisons' who are NOT in Europe wish you ALL the very best, and there will be some late nights coming up in this household for the next month! GO KATE!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the photos and daily comments on the blog. Really making us wish we were there too. Enjoy the atmosphere over the weekend leading up to the opening, ready to focus for a full on week of racing.
ReplyDeleteGood luck to all the team Raewyn