Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Sunday, August 04, 2002 Jerky underground?Simone Luder is the 2001 World Champ. She's leading the World Cup. She's leading the Park World Tour. She just won the "super elite" category at the Swedish 5-Days. She is a very good orienteer.Simone Luder has her own web page. My only complaint about her page is that it is all written in German. I can't read German. The only way I can try to make sense of her page is by using translation software. This afternoon, I tried to read a bit of her web page through Babelfish translation. Here is a bit of Simone's write up of the fourth day of the Swedish 5-Days: when I looked for the first time on the map, I admired the fine map picture, wow, looked mad! But a step I was continued to catch up directly by the present: up to the chest (swam) I stood in the sump... The area was beautiful, but also extremely difficult. Not only orienting was in the vague hills, sumps and rock a challenge but also running over the wet, stony and jerky underground. Already at the beginning I had trouble and my other security did not want not to adjust itself. With the respected post then the final tiefpunkt came as I (actually only briefly before the post) any longer did not get along. Further errors were added and came in such a way I wet and with much arrears from the forest, now it me had thus again once so correctly gotten! I'm thinking that Simone is describing a mistake in some difficult terrain. From other sources (which I can understand), I know she made a big boom on the fourth day. Clearly, she's talking about the difficult terrain -- terrain with subtle contours and rocky footing (="jerky underground"). She seems to have gotten lost. But, I can't really make much sense of the translation. It might be worth spending some more time poking around Simone's home page and plugging the text into Babelfish. Even if I don't learn anything useful about orienteering, the translations themselves can be amuzing. posted by Michael | 9:19 PM 
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