– For my part, it would have been very strange. I’ve been doing height for ten years now – except for one corona year where I did not. For me, height works, and in athletics and in our long-distance environment, it is completely strange not to do height training, Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal told news. She is seriously starting the season and will run 5000 meters during the news broadcast Bislett Games on Thursday night. And in the preparations for the season, she has, of course, been on a three-week long stay in American Flagstaff, plus a stay in November. STUSSAR: Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal has trained height for ten years without a championship in height. Photo: Tor Erik Schrøder / NTB Just after Bislett Games, she travels on a new three-week high altitude stay to find the World Cup form. She does this in stark contrast to the men’s national team in cross-country skiing, which has not planned a single day of altitude training next season. – It is clear that it becomes a talking point internally with us when we see what they do and why they do not. We were a little taken aback by it, says Grøvdal and aims at her and the athletics community. – No point in height Like the cross-country skiers, the athletes have the World Cup in the lowlands this season, but that does not affect her height plan. – We are on the rise to get a better training effect, that’s the point of being there. Our principle is that we do altitude training to get better. At least in running, the vast majority do top notch with systematic altitude training. It’s quite normal, Grøvdal says. But in the cross-country camp, the pipe has a completely different sound. LETTA: Emil Iversen is happy that he will not train height in the next few years. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB – With championships in the lowlands, there is no point in height for me, says Erik Valnes who is completely in line with Emil Iversen: – It is an issue I do not need to pay attention to from now on WC in Granåsen. It’s very delicious – as long as it’s easy. I’m not going to the hill this autumn, I will just train and do what I have done in the years before, says the Trøndelag man with a big grin and jokingly adds: – I have thought about giving a lecture on how not to train hill after the skiing career. Starting at the wrong end Coach for the sprint national team, Arild Monsen, explains that their choice not to train in the height in the future is about the next championships not going in the height, and that there are thus no requirements to be height acclimatized. – Therefore, almost everyone draws the conclusion that they do not want to be in the high and get good values on it. But it should be combined with training and you are away from home for a long time, so in the end it is only Johannes who wants to run a height regime, says Monsen. Klæbo has chosen to make its own collection plan before the winter, and has plans to add more altitude stays. But he is, as I said, alone about it and Valnes sees no reason to travel to the hill. SUCCESS: Erik Valnes has had success training in the lowlands. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB – You do not see any longer training effect? – No, I have had great success with being in the lowlands and training normally in the lowlands. It works very well for me, says Valnes and elaborates: – It is clear that if you are going to perform in the hill, then you are forced to train in the hill. But then you have something to do with a height effect, and then you have to be very much in height. I feel like it’s starting at the wrong end for me. – I’m a little stunned by the fact that Grøvdal is approaching 100 altitude days this season and do not fully understand why the cross-country environment no longer adheres to altitude training for which they had a good tradition. – I am a little surprised that they go away from what has worked for many before them. Therese (Johaug) has done it very systematically. If you look at the best, it has worked, so I wonder why they do not, says the 5000-meter runner. And the reason for the cross-country altitude regime stems from the success of the last two world championships. – We are more back to the collection plan we had before Seefeld, before Oberstdorf etc. We have very much threatened that and had a very good effect of the former, says all-round coach Eirik Myhr Nossum. Iversen is one who has benefited from it, and the five-mile gold during the WC in Oberstdorf came without an extensive height plan. Last season, he was forced to train on the hill to prepare for the hill at the Olympics in Beijing. The only thing with a disappointing winter. – I had many bad days last year both in the hills, at gatherings, and in the fall. I never managed to crack the code last year. I was actually very threatening, but when I was a little behind all the time it was a bit halfway, says Iversen who this year has not thought higher than 1100 meters. – I have run very many good races last two years ago without being anything in the hill, and it will be back to that. It is approx. 1100 meters on Fonnfjellet which is the finest mountain in Meråker. It must last, says the reigning world champion with a smile.
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