Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Monday, April 25, 2005 A couple more Tio Mila thoughtsIt is hard for someone sitting in North America to understand how big Tio Mila is. By "big" I don't mean the number of runners or teams. I mean how important it is for clubs.I ran four Tio Milas for three different clubs. For each of those clubs, Tio Mila was what we thought about throughout the winter/spring. You dragged yourself out to cold, wet night O' session because you wanted to be ready. You killed yourself on the run-in of every race because you didn't want to finish behind a club mate and risk losing a spot on the Tio Mila team. Tio Mila brought out the supporters for the club. Orienteers who were a step too slow or a few years too old still went to the race. But instead of running they cooked food and helped make sure runners were ready on time. I suppose Tio Mila gave the feel of a team sport to a bunch of us who picked an individual sport. Some Videos Swedish TV has some nice coverage. Click here. It is all in Swedish but you get some nice images from the race, including: Simone Niggle-Luder putting on the GPS, the start, some great shots of night orienteering (including Anders Nordberg getting away from the pack), Petr Losman hanging on Tore Sandvik and then getting away on the run-in, and a very short interview (in English) with Losman. Losman is fast, check out this video. This video begins with some shots of Losman jogging around, then they show the last leg and run-in of some sort of relay (no idea what race it is) where you can see Losman moving fast. You can also poke around the Sodertalje Nykvan Orienteering video collection. posted by Michael | 7:36 PM 
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