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Der er nu gået ca. 12 timer siden at Ida, Søren og Thrane var på podiet igår aftes. 12 timer der primært er brugt på at sove rusen ud, men også på at reflektere lidt over hvad der er sket.

Jeg skal være ærlig og indrømme, at inden vi rejste herned, så håbede jeg på en medalje eller to. Nu står vi allerede med 3, det er lidt uvirkeligt. Vi var her første gang i august 2008, og tre løbere var her igen i maj 2009, mens resten kom herned i onsdags for anden gang. Hvergang har vi boet på det samme hotel oppe i Passo Rolle. Vi har spist morgenmad med udsigt ud over langdistanceterrænet, og blevet inspireret hver eneste dag. Men lidet har vi vidst at starten skulle gå 400m fra hotellet, og slet ikke hvordan resultaterne skulle blive.
Nu ved vi det. Ida er verdensmester, Søren fik sin flotte sølvmedalje, og Goose kom endelig på podiet. Derudover rigtig fine præstationer af Emma og Marius.

Men hvordan når man dertil? Det er et godt spørgsmål, men svaret er nok ikke så kompliceret som man skulle gå og tro. "Hvor der er vilje, er der vej" sagde en junior engang på TV. Det er så sandt som det er sagt.
Denne Juniorelite indeholder så meget glæde, vilje og lyst til at blive bedst, at man ikke kan blive andet end inspireret af hinanden. Det er klart at ikke alle har lige meget succes, men alle påvirkes af succes'en, og alle kan se hvad der skal til for at blive bedst.
For fem år siden var jeg med til at sætte en ny standard for hvad der skulle til. I starten gav det en del clashes, og det var krævende at få ændret mentaliteten. Men nu er den hvor den skal være, det er nu løberne selv, der sætter overliggeren højt og vil endnu mere. Det er en sand fornøjelse at være en del af.

Foreløbbigt tak til Emma, Ida, Marie, Signe, Stine, Zenia, Folino, Goose, Kragh, Marius, Søren B og Søren S, det er fedt at være på tur med jer. Men husk, i morgen er det på med arbejdstøjet igen.

Jeg skal heller ikke glemme lederne. Sunes store arbejde, både hernede og derhjemme, det er kanon. Julie skaber en super stemning, og Ditte får løberne klare til nye udfordringer.

I håbet om endnu mere dansk succes
Lars

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 Sune Dandanell Jørgensen

Describe yourself, your family and your daily lifeI am a 27 year old guy who lives at Østerbro in Copenhagen . Here I live together with my girlfriend, Annemarie, who is actually just started doing some orienteering. At the moment I am trying to finish my master degree in Human Biology at University of Copenhagen . Previously I have studied Sport Science.

 

How did you get into orienteering and have you been running elite orienteering yourself?

 

I grew up at Bornholm – the little Danish Island in The Baltic Sea. I did a lot different sports including swimming, handball, football and gymnastics. When I was around 13 years old an athletic club set up in the town were I lived. My sports teacher at school told the guys, that he thought was talented in running, to start – but he did not tell me… So I started in another running club together with my father. It was in fact also an orienteering club. In the beginning I was focused on beating the “chosen” guys in ordinary running and did not do so much orienteering. At the age of 16 I was the fastest long distance runner at my age on Bornholm and among the fastest in . But this was also the year were I got my first medal at the Danish Championships. It was in orienteering and since my coach and some of my best friends were orienteer’s I choose orienteering as my primary sport.

 

I succeeded in getting several medals at Danish Champs as junior and my last junior year I lived in Södertälje and was running for SNO. But I have never been good at running in tough terrains and although I got some good results in the relays (2^nd 25manna) I never really succeeded as a senior runner. Partly due to lack of will to improve my weak areas as strength and technique and partly due to an accident in the forest were I fell and got spit by a stump of tree in my stomach, (ended up two weeks at the hospital and could not run much for a year) I stopped trying to reach the highest level.

 

 

What is your role/function in regard to the Danish National Junior Team?

 

I am a coach and my main focus is on the physical training and the physical performance. I am giving lectures on different relevant topics, have the responsibility for physical testing, have a look into season plans and training diaries, take part in the decision of whether a specific training should be high intensive or moderate, which is especially important on training camps. Furthermore I find very interesting to figure out, what physical demands a given JWOC or other championships places on the runner and how we can prepare ourselves the best way.

 

 

The Danish National Junior Team are probably having one of its most successful periods ever – what do you think is the reason?

 

First of all we have had some really talented runners the last years. Second they have had the will to do what it takes to succeed. But if you do not have the people in the organization (coaches etc.) with the right kind of knowledge and the right kind of support a lot of talents will be lost – I am convinced that the TKC’s and U16 group are very important players in the success. But I am also looking forward to see how the ATK project will be integrated in the clubs. This spring we got a very important tool: “Talentets udvikling – fra nybegynder til ekspert” – a book that in my opinion is very useful. If the ATK project can improve our capability to identify and develop talents into elite runners, still in a decent a way, I think we can have an even more interesting period in some years.

 

 

In elite sports you often hear athletes and coaches saying: “we can do better if we are optimizing this and that… or this is an area we could improve in”!  In your opinion, is there any particular area that Danish National Junior could do better in?

 

It a common phrase that you can always do better, but I also think it is part of the key to success. You need to something you believe in! If you don’t do something you believe in, you will never succeed. I also think it is important to do some research – what do other orienteer’s/athletes do and what is written in the literature. You should not copy them but figure out what might work for you and do some experiments with for instance your technique or your physical training in the wintertime.

 

 

As you have got these questions you have some connection to the Danish National Junior Team. Do you have a story or a moment from a training camp or a championship that you want to share with us?  

 

Although I have only been coach of the Junior National Team I have got several special moments. JWOC and EYOC have already been mentioned by others and these moments are really special for me too. Another special moment was the training camp in Trentino in August. We lived in the little village called El Paso 2000 meters above sea level and had some really fantastic trainings – this week inspired me a lot.

 

Furthermore I have had the possibility to work personally with Rasmus Kragh for a year now. I think he is a really talented runner, especially physically, and if he has got the will to improve technically and mentally he could go far.

Foto: Tutzon 

 

And the two final questions…

 

 

Who is the better cook - Tutzon or your mother?

 

Tutzon makes fantastic sandwiches but my mom is also a really good cook. I think I have to taste some more before I can decide who the winner is…

 

 

Do you have any Christmas wishes, which are orienteering related? (I.e. orienteering shoes)

 

That we will have the same spirit and will to go for the extraordinary in the national team. As coaches we are creating some opportunities through lots of different types of training. I hope that the runners will continue taking responsibility and use their talent and their opportunities.

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 Stine Bagger Hagner

Stine is new in the junior elite. She succeeded in qualifying for the junior elite even though next year will be her first as a junior. Particularly the top performances at EYOC and being among the best in D16 in Denmark all year helped her a lot. No doubt we are forward to having her in the team.

Name: Stine Bagger Hagner
Birthday: November 14^th 1992
School: Himmelbjergegnens Natur- og Idrætsefterskole
Club: Silkeborg OK

Describe yourself, your family and your daily living
I’m 16 years old, and usually I live in Ry, together with my parents and my three younger siblings. Until summer 2009 I’m staying at HNIE, which is a school where I live with students of the same age. The school focuses at orienteering, as the only school in the country, and a lot of young orienteer’s stay there for a year. 

How did you get into orienteering?
My parents ran orienteering, when I got born, so I’ve always been into the sport.
I ran my first real race when I was about eight years old.

Describe a typical training week in December, March and June. What is your favourite training session?
In December a typical training week would look like this: about two technical trainings, one long distance, one interval and two strength trainings. In March it’s two or three technical trainings, one long distance and two intervals; and then in June it’s three technical trainings, one or maybe two long distance and two intervals. 

What are your strongest and weakest sides as an orienteer? What do you do to improve these sides?
I’m not so good using my compass, and I think if I could learn how to use it more in my orienteering, I would be stronger technically. Then I also want to be stronger mentally and learn how to push my self even more. I’ve just read a book about mental training, which was very helpful in that part.

You have succeeded in qualifying for the Danish Junior National Team. Do you have an advice to other Danish juniors that would like to qualify?
Run a lot of competitions and trainings, and get some experience. If you don’t have a personal trainer, it would be good to get one, cause they often help you a lot, with the physical, technical and mental training.
 
Not many orienteer’s are professionals – thus many put there education quite high. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
I think I will put me education quite high, but I know that I also will keep running orienteering.

As athlete in an endurance sport you burn a lot of calories – what is your favourite food? Who is the best cook - Tutzon or your mother?
My mom cooks some very good food; I specially like her wok-food and her lasagne.
Tutzon cooks some very good food too, so I think they are equal good. 

On training camps, in tough training periods or between competitions you often need to relax to recover for the next performance. How do you chill the best?
Sleeping, watching a good movie or hang out with my friends, is how I chill best at home.

Mads Ingvardsens motto is: “Det koster bønder at spille skak” and Åke Jönssons motto is “ Fan, nu kör vi”. Do you have any specific motto that keeps you going?
I don’t have a specific motto; it’s my passion for the sport and my friends and family’s support that keeps me going.

Do you have any Christmas wishes, which are orienteering related? (I.e. orienteering shoes)
Actually I have one Christmas wish, which is orienteering related. I’m wishing me a new and faster SI-brick.

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 Emma Klingenberg

Emma Klingenberg – the youngest junior world champion ever. She also took home 2 gold medals and 1 silver medal at EYOC. So she has had an outstanding season and no more words are needed here!

Name: Emma Klingenberg 
Birthday: 18.05.92
School: Vestfyns Gymnasium
Club: Faaborg OK

Describe yourself, your family and your daily living
I’m 16 years old and I just got on the Danish Junior Team this autumn. My whole family run orienteering, and we spend almost every weekend and holidays in the forests searching for controls.
We’ve got a motto in our family that says: “We don’t leave the forest until we are all back from our race.” That once led to that we had to wait 3½ hours on Fanø after all other runners had gone home. My mother insisted on finding all the controls even though she couldn’t find herself half of the time and she had fare overrun the max duration. But – we waited. The motto has also rescued my little sister Ita, when we once forgot her on a rock in Sweden…

How did you get into orienteering?
10 years ago my mum and dad decided to find a family sport and they choose orienteering. I was about six years old at that time. In the beginning my two sisters, brother and I had no choice if we wanted to go or not – but we all liked it alright. Today we’ve all become quite addicted to the sport.

Describe a typical training week in December, March and June. What is your favourite training session?
I prefer to run about an hour with high intensity – while I listen to good music. Of course if it was possible I would rather run all my training as orienteering courses. A typical training week for me is quite the same all year around – except there are more competitions in the summer.

What are your strongest and weakest sides as an orienteer?
My physical condition is definitely my strongest side as an orienteer. I don’t look at myself as an orienteer with weak sides – but with strong sides that could be improved! I would like to be more confident with my technical abilities – especially with compass directions and AS (attack strategy).

You have succeeded in qualifying for the Danish Junior National Team. Do you have an advice for other Danish juniors that would like to qualify?
If you want to qualify to the Danish Junior National Team it is important to show your interest. Of course it is a good idea to run at the Danish Championships, but also show up at the 3000m and 5000m tests. It is necessary that you have a personal trainer, who can help you improve as an orienteer.  

Not many orienteer’s are professionals – thus many put there education quite high. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
10 years from now I’ll be 26 and I hope to be a world class orienteer! But you never know were life might take you and 2018 still seems fare away to me.

As athlete in an endurance sport you burn a lot of calories – what is your favourite food? Who is the best cook - Tutzon or your mother?
I love tomato soup just as my father makes it – normally he’s the one cooking at our house. I have only tasted Tut’s sandwiches and they tasted really good. I have heard from other runners that everything Tut cooks is delicious.

On training camps, in tough training periods or between competitions you often need to relax to recover for the next performance. How do you chill the best?
When I don’t run orienteering I play guitar. That is really relaxing – even though I am not that good. Besides that I enjoy to spend my Friday afternoons with my friends from school.

The new chief of the Danish Orienteering Federation told you to pick one animal that represents you as an orienteer (as a part of mental exercise). What was that animal?  Which animals do you think describes the leaders of the Danish Junior National Team the best?
Me: Moose (sneaky in the forest - faster than it looks)
Mads: Baboon (the wise one from The Lion King)
Julie: Winnie the Pooh (very caring - always makes you smile)
Sune: Krølle Bølle (bornholmsk animal)
Lars: Lion (grizzly bear was already taken)

Mads Ingvardsens motto is: “Det koster bønder at spille skak” and Åke Jönssons motto is “ Fan, nu kör vi”. Do you have any specific motto that keeps you going?
“Trust your trigger. Trust your legs. Trust yourself.”

Do you have any Christmas wishes, which are orienteering related? (I.e. orienteering shoes)
A faster SI would be great.

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 Signe Klinting

Today’s runner is Signe Klinting. She has performed on a high level in almost every race throughout the season. Of course you can always do better, but she is extremely stable and almost never does really big mistakes. Especially in the relays at JWOC and EYOC she ran superb but she also got good results at JWOC middle, JWOC long distance, EYOC long distance and Oringen.

Name: Signe Klinting
Birthday: 17th of april
School: Frederiksborg Gymnasium 2.x
Club: FIF Hillerød

Foto: Tutzon

Describe yourself, your family and your daily living
I live with my mum and dad just outside Hillerød. My brother, who is 3 years older than me, has moved to Viborg because he works as a sergeant in the air force. In august 2009 he will begin the pilot-education in Karup.
I go to school in Hillerød centrum and ride the bike to school (for the most). My father likes to ride his Mountain bike – especially when it’s MTB-O. He runs orienteering, but has some trouble with his leg and can’t run so must. My mother runs a bit of orienteering, but nothing compared to me.
I go to 2-3 arranged training-sessions during the week – the rest I do on my own or together with some of the other runners, mostly Maja Alm.

How did you get into orienteering?
My mother wanted to loose some weight. She was a scout in her younger days, and liked to orienteering – she thinks just running is a bit boring. My brother went to school with a guy who ran orienteering and his mother told us how to start. She told about the different training-offers, among them there was a weekly trip to the swimming bath during the winter. I thought that sounded pretty nice and wanted to join my family in the orienteering. Now it’s not so much the trips to the swimming bath that triggers me

Foto: Tutzon

Describe a typical training week in December, March and June. What is your favourite training session?
On Mondays I go to the Team Denmark-gym in Farum, where we have a strength-exercise-training with Coach (Lars)
Tuesday is normally interval-day. I normally run 6x1000m on a stadium, often with Maja. In June, the intervals are a bit shorter, i.e. 8-10x400m or 3x1000m+4x400m.
I have the weekly orienteering-training on Wednesdays. In wintertime it’s night-orienteering. The focus of the training differs from time to time.
In this winter I’m going to have a couple of spinning-session, mainly on Thursdays. Spinning is a great alternative training session. The intensity is high plus you get mentally challenged.
Interval-training again on Fridays. Sometimes it’s like the ones I run on Tuesdays; other times it can be longer intervals in terrain or hill-intervals. In June and April there are often competitions or training-camps in the weekend, so Friday gets a recovery-day with a short jog.
In wintertime I am often having a longer run in the weekend.

I love the feeling after an interval-training session! But it is so hard to get trough

What are your strongest and weakest sides as an orienteer? What do you do to improve these sides?
I have a good map-understanding, which helps a lot  and I’m pretty strong in terrain. I have a constant speed, so I’m not so good at speeding up, when it’s possible, so I’m going to train lots of intervals. I’m all so going to train running in hills, so I can be strong and ready for JWOC in Italy!

Foto: Tutzon

You have succeeded in qualifying for the Danish Junior National Team. Do you have an advice for other Danish juniors that would like to qualify?
You have to really commit to it. It takes a lot of hard work and time, so it’s important that you really love orienteering!

Not many orienteer’s are professionals – thus many put their education quite high. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
I’ll be on the top of my orienteering career, living in Norway/Sweden enjoying life!

As athlete in an endurance sport you burn a lot of calories – what is your favourite food? Who is the best cook - Tutzon or your mother?
I love food that is easy to get in – like rice with a casserole, maybe with carry. It’s easy just to “shovel in” and tastes GOOD at the same time.
I love Tutzons food, but that’s when we are on training camp. Mum makes great food too, but that’s at home – totally different and not something I would like on a training camp.

Foto: Tutzon

On training camps, in tough training periods or between competitions you often need to relax to recover for the next performance. How do you chill the best?
In front of the TV!!!! I especially if Beverly Hills or Friends is on. When we are on training camp, I usually bring a couple of friends-DVDs, so I have something to relax to.

The new chief of the Danish Orienteering Federation told you to pick one animal that represents you as an orienteer (as a part of mental exercise). What was that animal?  Which animals do you think describes the leaders of the Danish Junior National Team the best?
I told Mads, that I was a little fast-running-mouse. It’s a mouse that lives in the fields and has a little territory. It makes little track trough the territory, so if it gets attacked by big birds, it can confuse them by running very fast trough field via the tracks. It keeps the track clean from small plants and stuff, so it won’t fall when it runs fast 
Mads is a fox – fast, old and sly (=snu) or maybe “sneaky like a moose”
Lars is a big brown bear. Big and eats a lot, but can still move fast trough the forest.

Foto: Tutzon

Mads Ingvardsens motto is: “Det koster bønder at spille skak” and Åke Jönssons motto is “ Fan, nu kör vi”. Do you have any specific motto that keeps you going?
“No pain, no gain” and “Smile and the world will smile back at you”

Do you have any Christmas wishes, which are orienteering related? (I.e. orienteering shoes)
There are a lot of runner-clothes on my list of wishes for Christmas. But I could actually need a new pair of orienteering shoes.

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 Camilla Søgaard

Today we are presenting Camilla Søgaard. Camilla is also new in the Junior Elite but managed to qualify through good results this year and last year. Both years she represented Denmark at EYOC and last year she got a 4^th place in the long distance. This year she had a good run at the sprint distance.

Name: Camilla Søgaard
Birthday: 14/8 1991
School: Horsens Statsskole
Club: Horsens OK

Foto: Tutzon

Describe yourself, your family and your daily living
I am a sweet, high and blond girl. I have a twin brother, Rasmus, who ride MTB-O and a little orienteering, too. My mother, Sussanne, is health economist and works in Århus. My father, Ole is engineer and works in Århus, too.
The most days I wake up at 6.50 and thinking that I could sleep a little more, but then I go down to the kitchen, eat breakfast and bicycle to school, which starts at 8.00. After school I make homework and train and after that it is mostly mealtime. Then I make my lunch pack and go to bed, reading a good book.

How did you get into orienteering?
My father run, and then he took me and my brother with him to races.

Describe a typical training week in December, March and June. What is your favourite training session?
When it is snowing I am running, when it is blowing I am running, when it is raining I am running, when it is sunshine I am running and when it hot and cold I am running. ;) My favourite session is in the spring, when the trees are coming into leaf and the sun starts shinning again.

What are your strongest and weakest sides as an orienteer? What do you do to improve these sides?
I am not that good at curve orienteering and compass courses, but I am a good runner and strong at coarse orienteering.

Foto: Tutzon

You have succeeded in qualifying for the Danish Junior National Team. Do you have an advice for other Danish juniors that would like to qualify?
Do the best you can, and keep fighting 

Not many orienteer’s are professionals – thus many put there education quite high. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
In 10 years I am 28. I guess, I am studying some exciting profession, having a boyfriend and still running a lot of orienteering.

As athlete in an endurance sport you burn a lot of calories – what is your favourite food? Who is the best cook - Tutzon or your mother?
Tutzon is the best!

On training camps, in tough training periods or between competitions you often need to relax to recover for the next performance. How do you chill the best?
I’m together with my friends or in my bed.

Do you have any Christmas wishes, which are orienteering related? (I.e. orienteering shoes)
I wish me both knee - and long tights, and then I wish, my shinbone inflammation would go away.

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 Ida Bobach

Ida Bobach is the youngest of three very talented siblings. Before JWOC this summer she was the only one of them who had not got a JWOC medal - now Ida has one too! She ran an impressive 1st leg in the relay where other favourite teams lost their chance for the medals.
By the way she also won the EYOC long distance and was on the winning team in the EYOC relay.. 

Name: Ida Bobach
Birthday:30/7-91
School: Silkeborg Gymnasium
Club: Silkeborg OK

Foto: Tutzon

Describe yourself, your family and your daily living
I live in Silkeborg in the middle of Jutland. Or more exactly a bit outside Silkeborg in a little town called Virklund, wich is surrounded by great hilly forest. I live here with my parents and one of my brothers.
I am at first year at Silkeborg Gymnasium. Last year I lived at HNIE (a boarding school) where I spent a lot of time on sport and orienteering.

How did you get into orienteering?
Both of my parents are orienteers so they brought me when I was very little, and I have just loved it since then.

Foto: Tutzon

Describe a typical training week in December, March and June. What is your favourite training session?
December and March look very much like each other. I have some trainings where I run fast, that is often intervals. Most weeks I run this two times, one time on track and one in terrain. Then I have 1-2 technical trainings, often I run one of them with high speed. I also have a long, calm run for about 1½ hour. And then I do some stabilizing training. 
In June I run some shorter trainings with high speed. I run more intervals and they are short and intensive. I still have 1-2 technical trainings and some stabilizing training.

What are your strongest and weakest sides as an orienteer? What do you do to improve these sides?
The technique is my strongest side. I think my weakness is my speed in terrains that have a good runnability. I run intervals on track to improve this.

You have succeeded in qualifying for the Danish Junior National Team. Do you have an advice for other Danish juniors that would like to qualify?
I think it is important that you show enthusiasm and show that you love this sport. And then you have to fight for getting better. I also think it is important that you keep fighting even though you have some bad periods.

Foto: Tutzon

Not many orienteer’s are professionals – thus many put there education quite high. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
I am a senior world champ! But that is just a dream. I think that I in 10 years am spending much time on elite orienteering and I am trying to be the world’s best orienteer. But I also want to get a good education, so at this time I have found a great balance between these two things.

As athlete in an endurance sport you burn a lot of calories – what is your favourite food? Who is the best cook - Tutzon or your mother?
My favourite food is something you easily can eat  I think I have to say Tutzon. Especially his lunchbuffet and his broccoli salad are really good.

On training camps, in tough training periods or between competitions you often need to relax to recover for the next performance. How do you chill the best?
I chill best when I watch Desperate Housewives.

The new chief of the Danish Orienteering Federation told you to pick one animal that represents you as an orienteer (as a part of mental exercise). What was that animal?  Which animals do you think describes the leaders of the Danish Junior National Team the best?
I chose a leopard. Lars: A bear, some times as a circus artist and some times as a wild, hunting bear. Mads: An eagle. Sune: A happy dog. Julie: A hen mother

Mads Ingvardsens motto is: “Det koster bønder at spille skak” and Åke Jönssons motto is “ Fan, nu kör vi”. Do you have any specific motto that keeps you going?
“No pain, no gain” inspired by Lars Lindstrøm.

Foto: Tutzon

Do you have any Christmas wishes, which are orienteering related? (I.e. orienteering shoes)
No not really. But new running clothes are always nice to get. 

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 Andreas Boesen

In contrast to many other elite orienteers, Boesen is not born into the sport! In only a few years he has developed into one of the best orienteers on his age in Denmark. This year he participated in his first JWOC and his second EYOC. At the EYOC he ran a superb first leg and the team ended up by taking the bronze medals!

Name: Andreas H. Boesen
Birthday: 4. March 1991
School: Roskilde Katedralskole 
Club: OK Roskilde

Foto: Tutzon

Describe yourself, your family and your daily living
I’m 17 years old and live together with my family, mom, dad and my little sister, in the city of Roskilde. I have lived here since I was 2 years old, and early in my childhood I began to play football. When I got a little older I quitted football and started on bowling. At the same time I did athletic. But in May 2005 I quitted that, too.   
I go to school Monday to Friday from 8 am to 1-3.30 pm and then I maybe use the next hours by doing homework or training. I do train in my club, when there are intervals or training in the forest, but I have better forest closer to my house. In the weekends I travel a lot around to different orienteering events or other things like that.

How did you get into orienteering?
I was tired of doing athletic and bowling, but I still wanted to do sport. I tried orienteering in a forest near my town and thought it was great to combine a map with running. I will probably say that I learned orienteering by myself. Only the first time someone helped me. Afterwards I just kept on learning by running in different terrains.
Now I’ve been running for 3½ years and I haven’t been tired of it yet.
 
Describe a typical training week in December, March and June. What is your favourite training session?
The winter season has just begun in December, so many short days with grey sky and low temperatures make me sometime asking my self why I’m doing this, but I couldn’t see myself without doing it. The program is almost the same though I’ve skipped the very short intervals. The week program consist of a hilly long-distance run, one maybe two sessions of intervals and two trainings in the forest with a map. Then a fast distance on 30-45 minutes, too.
In March it’s almost the same except that the new season has begun. In June this year I was preparing for JWOC, so I followed a daily program with different kinds of intervals, distances and other trainings that should result in the best form.
It’s not easy to say which session I like, but in winters I’m not happy with the long-distances because it’s often bad weather and cold. The funniest training must definitely be trainings with maps.

Foto: Tutzon

What are your strongest and weakest sides as an orienteer? What do you do to improve these sides?
One of my weakest sides is that I think it’s difficult to fill this question out.
But, my strongest side is probably that I’m mostly doing it good, when I’m out running, except for the long and very long distances. To improve long distances “skills” I have to run long distance trainings more often.

Not many orienteer’s are professionals – thus many put there education quite high. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
I’m putting my education highest as well because I don’t see a career as professional orienteer for possible. I will keep on doing orienteering, but I’ll have to earn money, too.

Foto: Tutzon

As athlete in an endurance sport you burn a lot of calories – what is your favourite food? Who is the best cook - Tutzon or your mother?
PASTA! I eat pasta often maybe too often, because it’s easy to make after school. But I’m looking for an alternative because there aren’t many useful things in it except for carbohydrates.
-Tutzon’s lunch buffet is great! But my mom makes good food too! The result must be equal.

On training camps, in tough training periods or between competitions you often need to relax to recover for the next performance. How do you chill the best?
I relax in a bed or on a sofa while listening to techno!

Foto: Tutzon

The new chief of the Danish Orienteering Federation told you to pick one animal that represents you as an orienteer (as a part of mental exercise). What was that animal?  Which animals do you think describes the leaders of the Danish Junior National Team the best?
I took a test; I’m a mouse. Small and fast.
Lars: A Grizzly Bear
Sune: A Fox
Mads: A Peregrine Falcon
Julie: A Swan
Do I have to give the reasons?

Mads Ingvardsens motto is: “Det koster bønder at spille skak” and Åke Jönssons motto is “ Fan, nu kör vi”. Do you have any specific motto that keeps you going?
I haven’t used it before but: “In rain and snow the orienteer has to go!” When I started, the first thing I was told, was that orienteer run in any kind of weather. It’s okay, but I hate to run in snow!

Do you have any Christmas wishes, which are orienteering related? (I.e. orienteering shoes)
Not really, I have money from a sponsor for that, but I hope it will be a great season in 2009.

 

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 Marius Thrane Ødum

Today’s runner is Marius. He is new in the Danish Junior Team and also the youngest. Although he was only 15 years old he qualified for JWOC in Gothenborg this summer. One of Marius’ goals this season was the long distance at EYOC in Schwitzerland – here he succeeded and got an impressive silver medal.

Name: Marius Thrane Ødum
Birthday: 18/9-1992
School: Frederiksborg Gymnasium
Club: OK Øst

Foto: Tutzon

Describe yourself, your family and your daily living?
I’m living north of Copenhagen, in a town called Birkerød with my family. I started at a new school this summer, which is pretty hard because of the work and the time you have to put in it, but its allright. My day is like “school, training”. There is not much time to do other things, so when I’m with friends it is mostly when I’m at training with other orienteers.

How did you get into orienteering?
Through my mom and dad who has been running a lot in the past. When I was little I hated it, but as I realised I couldn’t make the decisions in our family for what we were going to do, I ended up doing it but now I’m enjoying it.

Describe a typical training week in December, March and June. What is your favourite training session?
December: here I train longer but still does the important trainings like intervals and stuff like that with a high intensity, but when its winter I like doing a long run with my friends from orienteering, where we have fun and do a good training.

In the spring and summer I’m doing more of the high intensity trainings because of the important races, but what I enjoy most, is going orienteering in the spring after a long winter, and go to new places in the summer for fun competitions with family and friends.

Foto: Tutzon

What are your strongest and weakest sides as an orienteer? What do you do to improve these sides?
My mom and dad says I’m never satisfied with my results and races, but I don’t think that’s true. Because in orienteering you can always do better, and why don’t try to as long you have the motivation?
Like I said before, you can always get better if you work hard for it, and if you go to the more basic things like physics instead of mental, I can get a lot faster, and I’m of course trying to.

You have succeeded in qualifying for the Danish Junior National Team. Do you have an advice for other Danish juniors that would like to qualify?
Don’t dream the dreams.

Not many orienteer’s are professionals – thus many put there education quite high. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
I’m fighting for being the best, and I know it’s a hard job, but you can always raise the level by trying new ways to train. In 10 years I’m only 26 and I still have years to do orienteering in a high level, and as long I enjoy doing it I will keep on. On the education side, I also know it’s important to do a hard job at school because orienteering is not everything, but work aren’t too. It’s the dreams, and as long it’s my dream to be the best in orienteering I will try to live up to it.

As athlete in an endurance sport you burn a lot of calories – what is your favourite food? Who is the best cook - Tutzon or your mother?
I’m sorry mom, but Tutzon makes really good sandwiches, and I don’t have to clean afterwards.

On training camps, in tough training periods or between competitions you often need to relax to recover for the next performance. How do you chill the best?
When I’m listening to music, and doing fun stuff with my friends on the team.

The new chief of the Danish Orienteering Federation told you to pick one animal that represents you as an orienteer (as a part of mental exercise). What was that animal? Which animals do you think describes the leaders of the Danish Junior National Team the best?
I was not on that training camp where they were doing that (weird stuff) but some has said I was a moose, but I really don’t know, I more like being me self. Lars=everybodys hippo.

Mads Ingvardsens motto is: “Det koster bønder at spille skak” and Åke Jönssons motto is “ Fan, nu kör vi”. Do you have any specific motto that keeps you going?
No, not really.

Do you have any Christmas wishes, which are orienteering related? (I.e. orienteering shoes)
I wish to be more with my girl (can be orienteering related)

Foto: Tutzon

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 Junior-VM, en emotionel rutshebane

Lige nu sidder jeg her foran pc'en og reflekterer lidt over hvad det egentlig er at der er sket. Kaffen står lige ved siden af og det er først nu at man begynder at forstå hvad der egentlig skete igår.

Dagen startede som alle andre mesterskabsdistancer, men alligevel så fornemmede man at noget ikke var som det plejede. Allerede fra morgenstunden lugtede det lidt af metal, og det var med den fornemmelse at Sune og jeg tog ud til starten.

En efter en kom løberne ud, og et hurtigt kig rundt på de andre nationer gjorde det klart, vores løbere er noget specielt. Der hviler en ro over dem ved start, og de virker utrolig fokuserede, men heller ikke overfokuserede. Det er på alle måder en fantastisk flok.

Når man står ude ved starten, så er man isoleret fra omverdenen og ved intet om hvordan det går i mål. Alligevel så prøver man at lytte efter speakeren i det fjerne, og her kunne man igår høre danske navne nævnt, men resultater og stillinger det kunne man ikke fange. Det var derfor med stor spænding at vi gik mod TC. Allerede før vi er på vej ind på stævnepladsen, bliver vi mødt af den første ellevilde dansker og forstår hvad der er sket. Emma er blevet Verdensmester, Søren har taget bronze, det er for vildt.

Vi er i Sverige, men det var ikke til at se. Stævneplads var helt rød og hvid af danske flag. Det er så fedt at opleve 60-70 unge danskere der går amok. Tak til alle, I er vigtige for holdet og vi er enormt glade for jeres opbakning. Tak tak tak

Nu er min kaffe ved at være kold, så derfor vil jeg slutte nu. Senere idag skal Mads og jeg ud og forsøge at slå Emma og Søren, jeg er nervøs for at vi får det svært.

De bedste hilsner
Lars

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 Junior-VM nærmer sig

Hvis man kigger lidt i kalenderen, så er der idag 9 dage til den første distance er overstået. Når jeg sidder her hjemme i sofaen og tænker frem mod næste mandag, ja så kribler det i maven. Vi har arbejdet i næsten et år mod dette Junior-VM, og nu er det for alvor tæt på. Den sidste forberedelse er ved at bliver gjort, men mest af alt så venter vi bare på at komme igang. Jeg ved at alle løberne har lagt utrolig meget i deres træning, og jeg ved at vi er klar. Det er nu at vi tør tage det roligt, for vi ved at vi er godt forberedte. Vi er fysisk på toppen, vi behersker terrænet teknisk, og mentalt er vi stærke og fulde af selvtillid.

Vi var for 2 uger siden samlet på Fanø, og i den forbindelse blev det endeligt fastlagt hvem der løber på vores stafethold. Vi udtager stafetholdene hjemmefra, for at give hver enkelt løber fuldstændig ro til at forberede sig på sin opgave. Vi er et hold, og det er på den måde at vi tænker. Det betyder derfor ikke noget om man er på det ene, eller det andet hold. Alle forbereder sig lige seriøst, og alle ved præcist hvordan de vil løbe på stafetten. Vi fokuserer helt og holdent på hvordan vi vil løse opgaven, for hvad end de andre hold gør, kan vi ikke påvirke det på nogen måde.

Stafetholdene er:

• Ida, Maja og Signe
• Emma, Marie og Zenia

• Rasmus K, Rasmus T og Søren
• Andreas, Marius og Rasmus F

Keep cool derude, festen begynder om bare 9 dage.
Lars

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 En vinter er gået, og en ny sæson står for døren.

Der har været stille på denne blog, men nu er sæsonen ved at være igang igen. Dermed ikke sagt at Juniorlandsholdet har ligget stille hen, nej snarere tværtimod. Vi har arbejdet hårdere, bedre og mere målrettet end nogensinde før.

Efter 3 års tæt og meget givende samarbejde, valgte Ulrik og Lone at stoppe før denne sæson. Det gav anledning til en omstrukturering af arbejdet omrkring Juniorlandsholdet. Vi har nu ikke længere to Juniorlandstrænere, men et team bestående af fire yderst kompetente personer. Det var en fornøjelse at få lov til at vælge struktur og hvilke personer der skulle indgå i teamet. Det var et svært valg, for vi var i den meget heldige situation at have næsten 10 at vælge i mellem. Nu blev Sune og Mads valgt, og Julie fik muligheden for at forsætte den fine indsats hun allerede havde lagt som vikar for Lone.
Teamet består af undertegnede som Juniorlandstræner med overordnet ansvar. Mads har ansvaret for at strukturere og gennemføre den tekniske og mentale træning. Sune er fysisk træner og har bragt en masse viden ind på landsholdet. Julie er kvinden der styrer de tre herrer med hård kvindelig hånd.

Efter en sæson der bød på store resultater, er der blevet evalueret grundigt på de kvaliteter løberne i dag besider. Der er ingen tvivl om at vi idag er blandt de absolut bedste fysisk set. Det målrettede arbejde der er blevet lagt gennem 3 år har båret frugt, og de fysiske test vi netop har gennemført i samarbejde med Team Danmark, bekræfter at det fysiske niveau er historisk højt, specielt på pigesiden.

Men fysik gør det ikke alene, og efter evalueringen af forrige sæson, stod det klart at det var på det tekniske at vi kunne gøre de største fremskridt. Vi har derfor arbejde utrolig hårdt og langt mere strukturet med løbernes o-teknik end det tidligere er set i dansk orientering. Vi løber aldrig en træning uden et klart derfineret formål og succeskriterie. Målsætningen er at hele holdet i gennemsnit skal forbedre sig o-teknisk med op til 2 min pr. løb. Det er meget, specielt når flere allerede var rigtigt dygtige.
Mange danske orienteringsløbere var samlet på Fanø, og mange oplevede sikkert mange gange at miste kortkontakten og bomme stort. Her glæder det efterfølgendeen Juniorlandstræner at høre flere af løberne udtale: "Det var super nemt, det var bare at bruge den teknik vi har arbejdet med...." Mit første indtryk er også at bomfrekvensen er faldet markant, og når der bommes er det som regel kun et mindre bom inde i selve postcirkelen. Det lover godt for sæsonen.

Programmet i vinter har været:
16-18/11: Opstartsamling i Silkeborg
18-20/1: Træningssamling i Silkeborg
29/2-2/3: Åben træningssamling i Silkeborg/husby
15-19/3: Påskecenter i Gøteborg

Programmet frem til Junior-VM er:
11-15/4: Silva junior Cup i Uddevalla
16-18/5: Junior-VM testløb i Gøteborg
7-8/6: Pre-JWOC samling på Fanø
27/6-7/7: Junior-VM i Gøteborg

Der er ingen tvivl om at vi kommer velforberedte til Junior-VM. Bedre end nogensinde før, så alt tegner lovende. At melde ud som Ulrik Wilbek er fristende, men metal det er målsætningen. Jeg glæder mig meget, og jeg kan mærke på alle Juniorerne at de også ser frem til at vise hvad de kan...

Med ønsket om et dejlig forår, og mange gode o-oplevelser til alle i O-Danmark.
Lars Lindstrøm
Juniorlandstræner

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 Status oven på JWOC 2007

Nu er Junior-VM ovre og desværre blev de sidste to distancer ikke helt som håbet resultatmæssigt. Mellemdistancen var en lille skuffelse, specielt for løberne. De ved de var bedre end det, og gjorde en rigtig god indsats idag. Dermed formåede de at rejse sig mentalt, og igen vise at vi som danskere også behersker teknisk vanskelige terræner. Især Majas helt fænomenale sidste tur lyser op, 1½ minut hurtigere end næsthurtigste piger, det er meget, rigtig meget. Men også fedt at Søren og Christian fik sluttet fint af. Andenholdene fortjener stor ros, de klarede det fint og over forventning. God gået piger og drenge.

Hvis man skal kigge lidt i et større perspektiv, så viser de danske juniorer igen at der er krummer i dem og de er blandt verdens bedste. Men lige netop i den sætning ligger også en udfordring, det er svært at takle det pres man kan lægge på sig selv når man ved man er blandt de bedste. Det er et af de områder vi skal arbejde videre med, og ikke mindst styrke fokuset på det o-tekniske. Bliver vi endnu bedre teknisk, og er vi bevidste om de valg og prioriteringer vi gør undervejs, så kommer der en helt andet tryghed og sikkerhed i løbet.

Men igen, fedt at være til et Junior-VM med de 12 banditter. Der er gang i dem, og de kan deres kram. Også et stort tak for opbakningen hjemmefra. Alle er glade for opmærksomheden, og det er som en 13'ende junior på holdet.

-Lars

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 A dream came true

Sådan Mini Bob - det var fortjent.

Lige nu har jeg ingen negle på fingrene længere, for nervepirrende var det idag. Christian løb sit livs måske bedste løb, og sprintede ind til en sikker bronzemedalje.

På første publikumspassage efter ca. 40 % af banen var han godt med og passerede som 5´er, ca. 30 sek efter. "Perfekt, han er i kontrol." Kort besked til Christian: "Det er perfekt, forsæt med fuld kontrol." På anden publikumspassage efter ca. 80 % af banen, måtte jeg bide lidt ekstra meget i neglene, for han lod vente lidt på sig. Ca. 2 min efter bedste tid, kom han flyvende ind over stævnepladsen. "Yes 4´er, et sekund fra bronze." En kort besked til Christian: "Det er perfekt, du er med helt fremme. Fuld fokus på o-teknikken, og maksimal koncentration. Kæmpe på i bakkerne" På 4. sidste post er han for første gang på skamlen, 30 sek foran lokalhelten Simon Uphill, der havde løbet sit livs løb og i mål måtte vente på Christian som foreløbig 3´er. Det var nervepirrende.

Så blev minutterne lange, det er hårdt at stå på sidelinien og bare vente. Jeg ved jeg intet mere kan gøre, og er spændt og usikker. Egentlig ikke fordi jeg behøver være usikker, for jeg ved at hvis nogen er sikkerheden selv og orienterer som en maskine, så er det Christian. Pludselig kan jeg skimte en lille rød/hvid plet i mellem eucalyptustræerne, og skriger i vild ekstase. "YESSSSSS!!!!!!" To sekunder efter ser også hele stævnepladsen Christian, og en snert af skuffelse breder sig. Bronze til Danmark, og fjerdeplads til Australien ved Simon Uphill. Vi jubler, men føler alligevel med Australierne, og Simon i særdeleshed. Han vandt sin fjerdeplads. Flot af dem med 2 på skamlen på samme dag.

Christian så for 2 år siden for første gang kort fra Australien, og siden da har vi arbejdet på det her. I dag lykkedes han 100% på den nok sværeste langdistance nogensinde på Junior-VM. Det er fedt, og jeg mindes stadig beskeden fra Team Danmarks læge i december 2005. Tredobbelt træthedsbrud, og glem hele sæsonen. Christian har kæmpet videre lige siden da, og i dag var der fuld valuta. Dagen er fuldt fortjent Christians.

Kort med Christians vejvalg, del 1 og del 2

Fedt var det også at Søren kom så flot igen, og for alvor fik fart på til sidst. 7´er bare syv sekunder fra podiet. Anders´s 23. plads var knald, og trods to større fejl kom Maja ind på en fin 12. plads. Lidt mere coolness og hun havde været på skamlen. Signe blev 15. og det er hendes hidtil bedste langdistance. Sejt. Line blev 23 også det var cool, og hendes internationalt bedste resultat individuelt. Ida løb igen flot og blev 33´er. Marie imponerede stort med sin 34. plads. Tænker man bare 4 måneder tilbage, så ville de fleste nok ikke have troet det muligt. Spitze Marie...

Slut for nu, og snart for endnu en fed fed dansk dag. Kong Christians dag, fristes man til at sige.

- Lars

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 Lidt guf til kortnørderne

Lidt til kortnørderne

Som en lille service til de mange interesserede derhjemme, så er her kortene fra dagens sprint med Maja og Christians indtegnede vejvalg.

D20 m. Majas vejvalg
H20 m. Christians vejvalg

Stemningen hernede er i top, og løberne glæder sig til imorgen. Vi er i hvert fald klar, og alt tyder på at det bare bliver bedre og bedre med Sørens fod. Han løb uden problemer idag, men vi er alligevel lidt spændte på langdistancen i morgen. Søren er optimist, og det samme er den schweiziske fysioterapeut som har behandlet ham.

Det er fedt at mærke den store interesse hjemmefra, vi glæder os over alle hilsner.

-Lars

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 Thranen er flyvende, og tøserne samlet

Thranen flyver for alvor

For 14 dage siden satte Rasmus ny pr på 5000m i tiden 16:23, men det var ikke helt godt nok i følge ham selv. Derfor bestilte han tid til en ny pr på omkring 16:10. Så midt i mellem regnbygerne gav han den gas i eftermiddags.

Jeg løb med som hare de første 1500m med et bestilt tempo på 3:12 pr. km, for derefter at holde lidt pause og hoppe på toget igen med 1200m tilbage. De første 1500m gik helt uden problemer, det største problem var vel at holde sig bag coach'en... Efter fantastiske 15:58 krydsede han stolt, men træt, målstregen. Sådan 25 sek af hans pr Thranen er klar til Junior-VM.

 

Tøserne er samlet, nu skal vi snart afsted

Ida og Marie hoppede i dag på toget mod staden, så nu er alle tøserne samlet i København. Deres rejse er så småt begyndt og i morgen står den på shopping. Hmm, det er vist noget de elsker.
Men man bliver jo ikke god af shopping, så idag havde hele flokken kaldt til intervaltræning på Rudegaard Stadion med indlagte løbstekniske og koordinative øvelser. Ikke alle har en lige udviklet motorik, men det kommer hurtigt. Tag bare et kig på Line og Maja, der har smugtrænet siden påsken og derfor var kæphøje som sædvanligt.

Efter øvelserne stod den på 10x400, og jeg må sige at tempoet var imponerende. De er alle 110% klar, og virkelig flyvende. Sådan girlz, you're the best. Det er en fornøjelse at være sammen med jer.

 

2 dage igen...

Nu går tiden for alvor hurtigt, og allerede på torsdag er det afsted til Australien. Vi glæder os meget, og håber at der er mange som vil følge os hjemmefra. Vi er rigtig glade for den store interesse vi oplevede sidste år i Litauen og igen til nordisk på Bornholm. Det er fedt med interessen og vi skal gøres vores bedste for at få succes.

- Lars

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 Så er der kun en uge til afrejse

Australia - Here we come!

Nu begynder dagene at gå stærkt. Der er nu kun en uge til afrejse, og jeg begynder at fornemme blandt løberne at nu vil de gerne afsted. Vi er klar, de sidste forbedrelse er gjort. Nu venter den store rejse og de mange oplevelser vi glæder os. Maskotten står hjemme på hylden og tripper, snart er den afsted.

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