Final WOC preparations
After spending three weeks training camp in Finland, Lithuania and Latvia I returned home to the Lake District to carry out my final WOC preparations. You can read about my training camp in Latvia here . I undertook similar self organised training camps for my last two JWOC ’s (2012 and 2013) but I haven’t carried out such a venture since then. So there was lots of learning old and new not only about the terrain in Latvia but about myself and training to be a top orienteer in general. The Swedish team very kindly allowed us to join in with some of their session. Their consistent high standards of training including sessions with control flags, race simulated starts, SI air and GPS tracking really helped give a WOC feel and add a bit of pressure. 3 things I learnt l Make your orienteering sessions high quality - with only 6 weeks until the World Champs there was no time to waste. The Latvian terrain was so thick and scrappy in places that it required quite a bit of agg