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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

 03-12-2008 10:47:44

Det er sq godt Marius, Dream on. Elsker især dit sidste svar! Go get them tiger!!

 Sagt af: Christian Bobach

 06-12-2008 22:38:33

Hi Marius, nice interview, we hope to see you back soon! we have already started a fan-club for you in Belgium grtz Toon&Michaël xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and remember, as long as you get medals... you'll get sandwiches

 Sagt af: Belgian fans

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