Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004 Some Euro Champs notesI checked out the discussion page at Alternativet this morning and saw people whining about poor live internet coverage of the Euro Champs. It struck me that we (i.e. orienteers sitting at our computers) are getting spoiled if we're complaining about bad online coverage.Even without live coverage, you can come across some interesting news from the Euro Champs. Tore Sandvik's guess about the course setting The day before the middle distance qualifying race, Sandvik spent some time with an old map that covers the area (though not quite the entire area) trying to guess what the course would look like. Take a look at his pre-race guess and then take a look at the actual course. I check Sandvik's home page every few days. When he writes something, it is usually worth a look. He's got a nice collection of maps (look under "arkiv" and then "kart"). He's also got a list on his page: Pasi Ikonen, Jani Lakanen, Kim Fagerudd, Michael Eglinski, Jimmy Birklin, Johan Modig, Fredrik Lowegren, Emma Engstrand, Mikael Lund, Jamie Stevenson, Oli Johnson and Jenny Whitehead. I like seeing my name in that list -- quite good company! Hanne's bad night and good run In my quest for Euro Champs news, I read about Hanne Staff's bad night of sleep, followed by her gold medal in the middle race. Apparently she was nervous about the race and worried she might be getting sick. She didn't sleep well, but she ran well. Check out Hanne Staff's gold medal race. She lost a little bit of time in two places. Leaving the first control she orienteered toward the 12th control, but caught herself before she got there and made her way to 2. Then on her way from 11 to 12 she drifted off line a bit. What about the Americans? Even though it is the Euro Champs, three Americans (and one Canadian) are racing. I thought Sandra Z's comments on Attackpoint were interesting: Model event for Word cup races in Danmark. Interesting forest, nothing like I have ever seen. The white on the map is always different in the terrian and hard to read (also sometimes really slow). I am so glad that I had the opportunity to go to the model event, otherwise tomorrow would have been a huge surprize. Long distance qualification race. Not that good of a race. I made a lot of mistakes, but also had trouble getting into the map the first few controls and lost time just by simply not being effcient. I have never run in Denmark before, and with only the model map as an example I was not prepared enough to be able to push and still understand how the terrian was mapped.... It must be quite frustrating to struggle with the map and feeling surprised by the terrain and map. That might just be a topic for another day. posted by Michael | 7:19 PM 
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