Following your helpful feedback, and with the aim of making the Unleashing Your Potential articles easier to explore, I’ve put together this clear and comprehensive overview. It’s designed to help you quickly find the topics that matter most to you and navigate the series with ease. The Unleashing Your Potential series offers runners, orienteers, coaches, … Continue reading Unleashing Your Potential: 🔍 Summarizing the series.
Tag: Performance
Unleashing Your Potential: Are You Training Hard or Just Training Tired?
There is a moment many endurance athletes recognize instantly. You are halfway through a session that, on paper, should be manageable. You know the pace. You have done it before. Yet today everything feels heavier. Not dramatic. Not painful. Just dull. The legs respond slowly, the mind feels flat, and the effort seems strangely high … Continue reading Unleashing Your Potential: Are You Training Hard or Just Training Tired?
💥 The Best Winter Camps and Events in Spain 2026
Your complete guide to world class orienteering training this winter Spain has become one of the most reliable destinations for winter orienteering in Europe. With high quality terrains, excellent weather, a long tradition of professional course setting, and a growing community of international teams choosing Spain for their preseason, the upcoming winter offers an exceptional … Continue reading 💥 The Best Winter Camps and Events in Spain 2026
🎓 Halden SK Academy keeps rolling forward
… and we have just completed our 9th webinar Winter is finally showing its face, which means long sessions in the forest, cold hands, and that unbeatable feeling of coming back home, warming up, and learning something new from the comfort of your sofa. Perfect timing for our HSK Academy online sessions. This week, we … Continue reading 🎓 Halden SK Academy keeps rolling forward
🍂 25-Manna: The spirit of a true club
When autumn paints the forests around Stockholm in gold and red, every orienteer knows what time it is. The season is coming to an end, and that can only mean one thing: 25-Manna. The 25-Manna is not just another relay. It is a celebration of what club orienteering truly means. It brings together youth, veterans, … Continue reading 🍂 25-Manna: The spirit of a true club
🇫🇮 Route to WOC25 Kuopio – Episode 3: Mastering long navigation in Neulaniemi (feat. Aebersold, Fosser, and Weckman
The WOC Long Distance takes us again to Neulaniemi, where orienteering turns into a game of strategic navigation, endurance, and constant decision-making. In this third episode of our Road to WOC series, we focus on the key demands of this year’s long distance, with insights from the reigning world champions in the discipline, Simona Aebersold … Continue reading 🇫🇮 Route to WOC25 Kuopio – Episode 3: Mastering long navigation in Neulaniemi (feat. Aebersold, Fosser, and Weckman
🇫🇮 Route to WOC25 Kuopio – Episode 2: Neulaniemi Insights (feat. Thierry Gueorgiou)
After the steep dilemmas of Puijo in Episode 1, we now turn our attention to what is arguably the most iconic stage of WOC 2025: the Middle distance final. This decisive race will take place in Neulaniemi, a strikingly wild peninsula of rocky hills, mature spruce forests, and intricate contour shapes just a few kilometers … Continue reading 🇫🇮 Route to WOC25 Kuopio – Episode 2: Neulaniemi Insights (feat. Thierry Gueorgiou)
☀️🇳🇴 Halden SK Summer O-Package is ready!
Looking for the ultimate technical training this summer? Come to Halden and challenge yourself on 10 varied and demanding sessions set in some of the best orienteering terrains in the world.Whether you're preparing for WOC, improving your skills, or just exploring epic forests – we've got you covered! 💪🌍 📦 How does it work? Super … Continue reading ☀️🇳🇴 Halden SK Summer O-Package is ready!
🎯 Mastering Slope Controls: Lessons from Idre Fjäll
As the Orienteering World Cup kicks off this week in Idre Fjäll (June 18–22, 2025), athletes will be tested not just physically, but technically—perhaps more than anywhere else this season. One of the most demanding skills in this type of terrain is the art of attacking controls on sloping ground, especially on diagonal downhill approaches. … Continue reading 🎯 Mastering Slope Controls: Lessons from Idre Fjäll
🇫🇮 Route to WOC25 Kuopio – Episode 1: Steep Decisions in Puijo
This Saturday, one of the most crucial steps in the journey to the World Orienteering Championships 2025 will take place: the WOC test races in Kuopio. As part of our new series, Route to WOC25 Kuopio, we’ll be diving into some of the terrain’s most demanding route choice challenges. Let’s kick things off with a … Continue reading 🇫🇮 Route to WOC25 Kuopio – Episode 1: Steep Decisions in Puijo
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