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The Weekend of Sprints

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Jo In Action This weekend was in essence a virtual sprint and mixed sprint relay training camp for team GB with many athletes in action in multiple locations.   As Sweden and Norway hosted their national sprint champs the guys at home were getting well acquainted with some more of central Scotland’s finest housing estates. Some WOC Specific training in Stirling In Sweden Cat was the team rep and faired well in what was definitely the trickiest courses of the weekend.   If you want to exchange your cross word for a mind teaser of another kind tonight then have a look at the map for the final and then check out the planners analysis: Swedish Champs Course & Tracking Planner Analysis Cat had a very solid race and was only one mistake away from the podium showing that all that winter training has paid off and she is muscling in with the top players once again.   The next day she was racing with her, new for this year, Swedish club OK Södertör...
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THANK YOU!

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Team GB quiz - Round 1

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