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Thursday, April 29, 2004

Some thoughts about Tio Mila

 

I didn't get a chance to sit in front of the computer following Tio Mila live. Instead I've spent some time the last few days reading post-race reports.

The terrain looks nice. Check out Johan Modig's route on the last leg.

Canada's Sandy Hott Johansen had a quite good result. She was 13th of 388 teams on the first leg (just 17 seconds out of 5th). That's cool. Her team sunk pretty quickly though. Kristiansand OK finished 223rd.

Kristiansand OK's men's team started our really well -- winning the first leg. They were in the fight going in to the last two legs. After 8 legs they were 5th. With Jorgen Rostrup and Holger Hott Johansen on the last two legs you'd have high hopes for a good finish.

What happened? Turns out Rostrup lost his dipstick and couldn't find it. He had to DNF.

I've never lost a dipstick. The first time I ran with one, I fell and it flipped off my finger. I've never had any trouble since. But, I suppose I shouldn't count on being lucky. The dipsticks have a little hole in the end and you can put a bit of string or elastic through the hole as a backup to the elastic strap that attaches the dipstick to your finger. That might be something I'll do before this weekend's race.

I wonder why Rostrup didn't have a little backup string. I was reading the instructions for runners from my old club, IFK Lidingo, and they directed their team leaders to make sure the runners had a backup string on their dipsticks.

And I almost forgot....Swedish sport TV produced a 30 minute summary of the Tio Mila weekend (which included a mass start sprint race in a zoo). You can see the video by going to the SVT sport page and looking for "Sammandrag fran Tiomila"

posted by Michael | 8:32 PM

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