– I have not run so much either hurdles or at a fast pace yet. This can be exciting here. – Have you run over hurdles at all? – I have passed a little over very low hedges at a leisurely speed. I have. Time goes fast towards July 16 and the test heat of 400 meters hurdles in the World Cup. The questions are still many when Karsten Warholm takes the time to meet news at the last training session before leaving for the precamp in the USA on Tuesday morning – if the plane leaves. IN A GOOD MOOD: Karsten Warholm chooses to be positive before leaving for the World Cup. Photo: Hanne Skjellum / NTB – We have somehow been able to put in enough that we feel that it is inside to travel and walk to get ready. At the same time, you save the biggest steps to the United States. The reason we travel is because we have to take it seriously, so the goal is to get on the starting line of course, and be good – if not I do not, Warholm explains. – Nice to get away cheap It’s been a month since he suffered a hoarding injury in the season opener in Rabat. The doctors estimated anything from one to six weeks on the sidelines. The 26-year-old confirms that he must be 100 percent ready to start. – Because most of them are in good shape now and my competitors are good. One percent is quite a lot in our sport if you start counting on it. Just put it in the calculator, says Warholm. Of course, he agreed that Rai Benjamin ran 47.04 in the American selection. and Alison dos Santos at a strong 46.80 in Stockholm. – The way the setting is now, it would have been nice to get away cheaply, but that is not why I do this here. When I see that they run fast, you first think that it will not be a cheap victory this year either. So I know I have to be on top. APPROACHING: There is a steady progress in training for Karsten Warholm after the hoarding injury. He tries to think as little about the thigh as he can. Photo: Hanne Skjellum / NTB – What percentage do you feel now? – It is difficult. I’ve always been bad at percentage calculation, but I’m not a hundred yet, he replies and smiles a little. Must make the decision But he has set a kind of deadline for when the decision must actually be made. – I guess we have to do something with maximum speed a few days before. I do not know exactly how many days before, but enough days that if I should get numb in the legs then it is finished until I will go on the starting line, says the world record holder, and continues: – We must at some point have an answer and I will not to wait until the attempt to get that answer for it I think is stupid. Coach Leif Olav Alnes hopes the security increases daily, but that it is difficult to know if you are actually completely ready. – You will not get the answer until afterwards, but you have to decide. You can not stand on the starting line and wonder if you are ready. You decide if you are ready or you are not ready. That’s how it was in Rabat. There was absolutely nothing to indicate that it would be a problem, he believes. Do not think he will cope with the downturn well The mood is good so far. But Warholm is trying to prepare for the fact that the downturn may come in the form of him not being able to participate, even though he plans for it to go well. – I try to tell myself that it can go shit, but that’s the way it is with most things. You can not fully prepare for it, you may not do it either, but you just have to know that there is a scenario where it does not go so well. But I do not think I will cope so well, Warholm admits. For the last few seasons, pretty much everything has gone his way. – How are you when you do not handle things so well? – Absolutely damn, is probably the answer. He’s laughing. – No, yes. I try as best I can and make it okay to be with me, but it must be said that I have probably had a lot of focus on my thing and gone a little in the bubble. I think that is very good for development and for doing the right things. Then I try to keep my spirits up. You can not let it go completely over.
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