okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Sunday, June 20, 2004
What a run!
Friday I took a look at the local newspaper from Halden. I was interested in seeing if they had any interesting articles before Jukola about Halden SK. The local paper covers orienteering quite well. I came across an article about Oystein Kristiansen.
Kristiansen won the bronze medal in the middle distance race at the WOC last year. But, he's not had a great season this year.
The gist of the article is that Kristiansen is planning to take a break from orienteering, and do some other things until orienteering is fun again. Meanwhile, he's thinking about the WOC, but not the WOC in Sweden this summer, but the WOC in Japan next year.
So I read all of this and wondered how he'd run (even if he'd run) at Jukola.
He did and he had a great race. Kristiansen ran in Halden's 2nd team. He ran the second leg and went out just a minute behind the leaders (but with the race so tight, that meant 25th place). He smoked the course. His time for 13.7 km was just over 64 minutes. What a run! He brought Halden's 2nd team to the lead.
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