Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Friday, December 27, 2002 A race from Norway in 1991I was poking around in some old maps and came across my maps from the O-festival 1991. I have a lot of good memories from that event. Before the races, I spent a few days at a training camp in Halden and the racing went well. If I remember correctly, there were three days. I went home after two. I can't remember why. Maybe it had something to do with school? I don't know.This map shows a bit of one of the races. 
There isn't anything special about the legs I scanned. I guess they illustrate typical near-Halden O'. I have a couple of distinct memories from the race. I remember a long leg (not shown above) of about two Km that gave some opportunities to run on trails. I also remember struggling every time I had to run through a felled area. The footing in felled areas is rough and I never really learned how to run well though them. I suppose I never spent enough time practicing. I ran M21 elite and had a decent result. The notes I've written on the map say I was 11th overall after two days, about 10 minutes back of the leader. The map above is from the second day and I see that Janne Salmi won. He was about 50 seconds a Km faster than me -- a lot, but not all that bad, actually. Vladimir Alexejev (sp?) was 3rd on the day -- 36 seconds a Km faster than me. He went on to finish 4th at the 1991 WOC a few weeks later. I suppose he must have been taking it easy in Norway. posted by Michael | 8:05 PM 
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