The talent group in Mikladalur

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It won’t be long now until our young talents try their hand in Iceland. So last weekend the talent group was once again at a training camp. This time the trip went all the way north to Mikladalur. There was, as you know, no running track there, but Faroese nature can at any time offer young and old alike plenty for training.

On the rock slab at Trøllanes

There were 10 of us on the trip, which set off on the Sam early on Friday evening. Once we had settled into the house belonging to Mikladals Sóknar Fráhaldsfelag, the first training session was on the programme. This was a gentle, relaxed outing through the tunnel to Trøllanes.

Several were struggling with injuries, so the Saturday morning session was adapted so that everyone could take part. After a light warm-up we had a letter hunt. Seven posts with seven different letters were placed around the village, up the slopes and down. A task was given out at the start, and when the letter had been found, you had to run back to the starting point, where a new task was handed out. When all the letters had been collected, you had to work out which word was being sought. The answer was SVØRÍKI, and it was Hans who, after 23 min., was the first to work it out.

On Saturday afternoon we ran on the FIFA football pitch, which was opened two years ago. Here we first had a long warm-up with a bit of strength training, and afterwards we ran 8 short sprints.

A whole weekend without computers and television was a challenge, so it went down well when an extra meal of eplaskivur was put on the table on Saturday evening.

On Sunday morning we had to be quick. After breakfast we packed our bags and went straight to Klaksvík. The last session was a trip out to Oyrar. On the way back we did a few bursts of 100-300 m. The injured stayed behind and did strength training with Rúni! After a good shower we had to set off again, this time to Guttormur’s to eat chicken.

At 13:30 the bus left for Tórshavn. A truly village-style 😉 weekend was behind us. We at FÍF are lucky to have such lovely and spirited young people/children, and it is with pleasure that we look forward to the next training camp, which will be in week 1.