okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Jukola maps
Emma Engstrand posted her maps from the last leg at Venla. Check out the first and second parts of the course.
The terrain looks unusual. I can't recall running anywhere that looks similar. My understanding is that the terrain was very open -- you could see a long way in the forest. It looks like the main difficulties would be holding a good pace and not getting pulled off by other runners on your leg but not your fork.
Engstrand missed control 179 and it looks like she might have been pulled to the wrong control by seeing the other control (170) or maybe runners heading to it.
What else would have been tough in this year's Jukola terrain? Maybe running through the marshy areas would have been difficult. (Some people who regularly read this page also ran Jukola, maybe they'll add comments?).