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Sunday 19 January 2014

What determines who wins...

Self analysis can be painful in orienteering. Questions range from what stoppped me getting out the door to go training that day/week/month/season to why in that race did I do that (of all things). Is it in your DNA? Are motivation, priorities and confidence so confusing because they are double helix shaped?

What sets the creme de la creme apart from the rest of us? Why does Chris Forne not seem to feel pain, or what makes Nick Hann so calm when he should really be just another insecure teenage boy with zits? Why can Lizzie Ingham compete against the worlds best but not win a Nationals middle distance?

Begin your reading here.


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