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Todays middle training map
The view from San Martino, can just see the gondola in the distance
We began the day yesterday with some sprint training on the town we are staying in. Our accomodation is in a part of Primiero called Tonadico and we had a two loop sprint race around teh labyrinth of houses up here. The map also has a hill on one side which posed some route choice.
After the morning sprint we headed up to San Martino Castrozza and Passo Rolle for a drive through to get a look at the race terrain. Road goes up quite high quite quickly. The road has painting on it left over from the Giro d'Italia in May. San Martino is quite open with relatively clean forest floor, while Passo Rolle (long) seemed to have a little more branches and rock on the ground to slow it down. On the way up we also saw a suicidal gondola up to an impossibly small summit of a mountain, a little kid who thought he was in the Giro and the Norwegian team.
Afternoon training was halfway back on a tiny map called Dismoni. Magic terrain, mossy floor with lots of rock. We seem to have clicked onto the Italian rock mapping style (if in doubt leave it out) so we all felt much more precise with our orienteering. The map was steep and all on one hillside.
Was looking at the map above and due to misreading the course looked at the (backwards) leg 7 -> 6. Thought this was an interesting leg where if the vegetation isn't too bad then straight must be fastest even though the track above looks so inviting and close....
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