National team to Pallas Spelen

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At a board meeting on Tuesday evening, the decision was taken to send our national team to Pallas Spelen, an indoor competition in Malmö. The national team has taken part in this competition twice before, in 2011 and 2015.

The plan has always been for the national team to have more than one assignment each summer. This year VU Spelen clashed with the Island Games, so it was not possible to go to both competitions. The board has therefore decided to return to the indoor competition in Malmö, which takes place on the weekend of 27 and 28 January 2018. The team will travel via Kastrup, flying out on the morning of Friday 26 January and returning on the evening of Sunday 28 January.

Qualification standards must be met by 30 October. The standards for the elite group apply, and they must have been achieved within the past year, indoors or outdoors: from 1 December 2016 to 30 October 2017.

Teresa Bláhamar has so far only been on the youth national team, but after her excellent results in Gothenburg this summer, she now also gets the chance to represent the elite national team.

The board is also working on other exciting assignments for the national team, and we are continuing preparations to bring the Swedish/Gotland coaches Mattias Sunneborn and Jorma Jaaskelainen to the Faroe Islands next spring. More on all of this later.

On the subject of national team work, there was also discussion of increasing participation in the Nordic Cross-Country Championships where possible. However, the standard at the Nordic Championships is very high compared with Faroese running, so an extra training effort beyond the usual is required if this goal is to be reached. We are therefore considering organising joint training sessions with the Nordic Cross-Country Championships in mind.

This was just a brief update from our board meeting on Tuesday evening.

Being on the national team should be exciting. That is why we want to offer our national team athletes varied challenges. Here is the Island Games team. From left: Alda, Elisabet, Jan Elmar, Julian, Tórur, Margit, Rebekka and Oddvør. Marna is missing from the photo. (Photo: Gutti-foto)