Sundby cuts down on training - with 400 hours

The Seefeld World Cup gold in February was the 34-year-old's first career. But the question is whether or not the gold of 15 kilometers of classic style has been something that lowered him for the coming season.

- It could happen. I don't know why it became as it became. But it was certainly a reaction to something. It could be the thousands of things that have happened in recent years, from family to relocation and that everything is new all the time. Every year is something new, and at the same time you should ski as soon as you can. But everything is something I have chosen myself, he tells VG.

He has now gone from training 1200 hours to training 800-900 hours. He has long been chasing that gold medal he has not had, which has been something that has given him a boost.

- It became mentally so that I wanted to start a new season immediately. I have been a little hot on the porridge for some years in early May. So now I think, I do not now.

On the side of the national team there is no major concern about Sundby's new training program.

- If there is a little less training than before, then we have world champions on the men's side who have trained less than what Martin does now. It is a higher bet than the safe methods. But this is what makes it possible for Martin to be both skier and the world's best dad, national team coach Eirik Myhr Nossum tells VG.