A winter and spring full of sickness ended with another sickness leading up to my only chance to qualify for WOC. 3 days after Jukola and 2 days before World Cup in Oslo I woke up with a sore throat.

Early this morning I started my travel to Czech Republic and the last training camp before WOC.

Aftenposten.no says that there is a forest fire south of Oslo close to Åsland Pukkverk (gravel pit). Åsland Pukkverk is on the old map over the area for this year's Norwegian O-festival and World Cup races.

While the world elite is preparing and now fighting for EOC medals, I am home recovering from sickness and preparing for WOC. This weekend I had three map sessions.

Because of illness I am unable to run the Norwegian EOC test races this weekend. Hence EOC is out of the question too. I was sick just before Tiomila and turned ill again 4 days after Tiomila. I have not trained at all the 10 last days.

The annual Norwegian Sports Gala took place Saturday evening. This is an event were all the best Norwegian athletes are honoured for their performances last year. Amazingly I won one of the prizes.

My training so far this year has not gone like a dream. I have to go back to 1993 to find a year with less training in November and December. But it still looks better than last year?

After my worst training month in more than ten years, it was wonderful to get out in the forest and orienteer yesterday.