Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Thursday, December 21, 2006 Finding my Asp numberI came across "Six Degrees of Thomas Asp" over at Alternativet today. It is an orienteering version of the better known "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon."Thomas Asp is a well-known Swedish orienteer. He's run in a couple of World Champs. You're Asp number is the number of steps between you and Asp. Here is an example: Sanna is a friend of mine from IF Thor (she's on the right in the last of the snapshots I posted yesterday). Sanna's Asp number is 3, here is the connection: 1. Sanna raced Sofi Thorsell in F21 long at Rosladhelg in May. 2. Sofi raced Andreas Eriksson at the Viking Memorial-The Hunt in February. 3. Andreas race Thomas Asp in M21 elite at Harnosand in June. So, just three links connect Sanna and Asp. My Asp number is 2. I ran Oringen 5-Days in the summer. Among others, I competed against Conny Forsberg in M40. Conny raced Asp in June. So, anyone who has raced against me in the last year has an Asp number of no greater than 3. I looked up the Asp numbers of a couple of other U.S. runners: Sandra Zurcher (OK Tyr) = 2 Suzanne Armstron (OK Linne) = 2 Boris Granovskiy (OK Linne) = 2 You can check for yourself at Oxtract's Six Degrees of Thomas Asp database (which is based on results from Swedish club's in Swedish races in 2006). As the title "Six Degrees" suggests, the largest Asp number in the database is 6. There are only 2 runners with a number as high as 6. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 7:48 PM 
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Hmm, I guess I'm a 3. Unless someone like Eric Bone raced against him sometime this year or something. Then I'd be a 2.
ps-- I also just thought of a really good orienteering-related christmas present... but it takes some setup, and i didn't think about it until it was too late! # posted by
 : 8:30 PM
Surely Boris ran against him at some point last year. That would put the entire US Team Trials field at 2.
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: 12:08 AM
Eric, Boris shows up as a 2 in the database:
Boris Granovskiy is linked to Lars Jonsson (Midälva OK) from a race on 2006-09-23. Lars Jonsson is linked to Thomas Asp (IFK Göteborg) from a race 2006-06-06. That sounds about right to me. Asp runs for a club in Goteborg, so he won't be at many of the same races as Boris (who runs for a club in Uppsala). They probably ran at the same competitions, but to be "linked" you've got to actually race on the same course.
This oughta be right. I have never raced Thomas Asp in Sweden. Which WOCs did he run?
# posted by
: 10:28 AM
Hans (Sudden) Fransson is good friends with Thomas Asp's brother and thus has a very low Kevin Bacon Degrees factor without any racing involved. He might also be from the same club in Goteborg.
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