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Early last Sunday morning, FÍF’s talent group and its leaders left for Stockholm on Atlantic Airways’ new route. The trip lasts a week, and the week will include both training and competition. On Tuesday evening there was also the chance to watch DN Galan, an international IAAF Grand Prix meet with a host of world stars in athletics. Although it “only” came close to a world record being set, we did see four stadium records fall at the old Olympic Stadium.
DN Galan Youth has record participation this year, with nearly 1,000 participants from 12 countries. These participants are entered for more than 2,000 starts.
We had our first training session as early as Sunday evening, and it must be said that the 400 m intervals by Regin, Jan Elmar and Rebekka certainly point to some personal bests. Bjørk and Rannvá took it easy that evening, as they had done an interval session on Saturday. On Monday evening we ran in the forest. After a light warm-up, we ran 5 × 1 minute at a steadily increasing pace. Later on Monday evening the leaders went back to Arlanda airport to pick up Rúni, who arrived later because of a football tournament in Aberdeen with the U-15 national team. Tuesday was a rest day from running. Rúni, however, went out with the leaders for a jog to loosen up his football-stiff legs.
Wednesday and Thursday are our competition days. All our participants have one event each day. A full overview with our runners’ schedule and a link to live internet TV from the competitions can be found under the heading “Kappingarskrá DN Galan Youth” on the front page.
The group returns home on 27 July and, barring any flight delays, we will all take part in the Ólavsøka Run that evening.
