28/1/04: Looking Forward to Lipica
On its website the Lipica Open in Slovenia announces it is ‘not a big, fancy competition with rich awards. It is a simple, modest competition where we want to offer good and correct organisation in a friendly atmosphere’. Organiser Roman Volcic couldn’t have been more helpful in giving us information on where to stay and the possibility of training before the races. The races consist of a middle distance World Ranking Event on the Saturday and a Classic on the Sunday, March 6th and 7th. The winners of D21E and H21E over the 2 days win a 2 night stay in the hotel in Lipica!

Intricate, karst, runnable terrain coupled with temperatures of 15°C makes it a good choice for early March and the French team had a camp here in 1999 and 2001. We are combining the weekend, which will be orienteering in a new country for us, with our GB Team trip to Southern Italy for the Park World Tour Series which we have both now been selected for. Ryanair flights into Trieste, a car booked through Avis and accommodation in the event hotel in Lipica make for a great weekend.

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