Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Wednesday, June 16, 2004 Jukola this weekendWith Jukola coming up this weekend I spent a few minutes looking at some pages with info about the race.If you're not familiar with Jukola, what you need to know is that it is a HUGE relay race in Finland. This year there are 814 teams entered in the four leg Venla race for women and 1323 teams entered in the 7 leg Jukola for men. That's a total of over 12,000 runners. Another thing Jukola is becoming known for is outstanding internet coverage. Last year you could sit at your computer and watch live video coverage from the forest. I don't know what is in store for this year, but I hope to be able to spend some time this weekend following the race. The teams and runners are listed at the official Jukola site. The Norwegian web page O-Nett has a poll with the question -- who will win the men's relay at Jukola? As I write, the poll has 633 votes and the favorites are Kristiansands OK, Bekkelaget and Halden (all Norwegian teams). The next two favorites are Kalevan Rasti -- a Finnish team that I think will have Gieorgiou running the anchor leg -- and "andre" (which means "other"). I have no idea who will win. I'm torn between Kristiansand OK, Halden and Kalevan Rasti. It'd be fun to see someone beat Halden. I'm a bit of a Kristiansand OK fan (I look at their web page now and then). It'd also be cool to see Gieorgiou smoke the last leg and put a Finnish team on the top of the podium. The Attackpoint team is still a bit up in the air. I wonder how they'll do. Check out Randy's pre-Jukola thoughts. And for something entirely different...check out the routes from Kristain Dalby (who finished third) from the Norwegian test race that I wrote about yesterday. posted by Michael | 7:47 PM 
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