Langweiliger Massenstart. Weltcup Liberec 2012

Abb.1. Die Position von Fabian Hertner kurz vor Posten 14. In der Lücke zwischen Dlabaja und Omdal laufen Rost, Letho, Hertner, Prochazka und Lysell ohne GPS.

I could climb during the race several positions and so i finished as 14th. Not only due to the my technical skills, much more because i always had someone in front of me. That made it easier to close the gaps, actually a quite boring race. And in some years we should run this kind of races at world champs, not very motivating...

Fabian Hertner über den Jagdstart am Weltcup in Liberec 2012

The method is an attempt to fig leafing the fact, that massstart and chasestart with a huge starterfield of top runners are boring formats with a low level of independant navigation as soon as bigger leading groups form (which is highliy likely; See even Hubmann and Gueorgiou catched at WC Liberec). In that perspective it is less a separating method but an argument against mass-&chasestart at the WOC. :-)

M.Lerjen in einem Kommentar zu einem Test der Methode Runners Choice.