We are excited to share our exclusive interview with Kriszti\u00e1n Liszka, the mastermind behind the long distance courses!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. What makes a good route choice?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n A good route choice has at least 2 (preferably 3) different, but seemingly equal routes. In my opinion it is even better if one of them is slightly better than the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. What was the most challenging in your course setting?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n For me, there were many difficulties during the course setting. For example that I live far away from the terrain and I couldn’t just go there and check it out any time I wanted. It was also challenging to take all the requirements regarding the organization criteria into account, including TV spots, refresment points and many other small details that affected the course setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. What are your experiences as an elite athlete?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n As an elite athlete I had the honor to participate at WOC 2013, 2014 & 2019, and EOC 2016 running long distances and relays. I also competed at WUOCs and some World Cups, mostly forest races. I completed some very tough courses there which gave me inspiration to the EOC 2024 long course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. What is the key to perform well on the race?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Physical strength is key for sure, while good route choice and accurate orienteering is also essential. A good distribution of power will also be important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. What’s your message to the athletes?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Train hard and enjoy the EOC!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are excited to share our exclusive interview with Kriszti\u00e1n Liszka, the mastermind behind the long distance courses! 1. What makes a good route choice? A good route choice has at least 2 (preferably 3) different, but seemingly equal routes. In my opinion it is even better if one of them is slightly better than the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eoc2024.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Lon_distance_interview_0-jpg.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoc2024.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoc2024.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoc2024.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoc2024.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoc2024.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eoc2024.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/eoc2024.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoc2024.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoc2024.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoc2024.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoc2024.hu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}