Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 World Champion Gardening"You won't become world champion in your backyard; all you'll become is a gardner."It sounds a lot better in Swedish and coming from Kent Olsson. Olsson was talking about the need for orienteers to travel to other places to become a better orienteer. Travel gives you a chance to run in new terrain, experience different mapping and course setting styles, race against different (and often stronger) competition. As much as anything, traveling to races teaches you to deal with travel and is inspiring. I'm looking forward to getting out of my backyard this weekend and racing in Georgia (and paying a visit to The Thinking Man.) Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 7:08 AM 
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It sounds a lot better in Swedish...
Yes, especially considering the words sound very much alike in Swedish: världsmästare = World Champion trädgårdsmästare = gardener ('garden champion') # posted by
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Unfortunately, I believe he is right. Even in Denmark I find his observations to be correct (not that they came aa a surprise); When I ran the national Championship in Denmark (DM) a couple of years ago, on the island of Bornholm, I suddenly found myself completely out of place, located in something semi-swedish (no pun intended to either swedes or bornholmians (?)). The terrain was NOT "danish" at all, but rather something you would find in the south of Sweden.
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I got really lost - unfortunately in the easy part of the forrest, which mostly looked like something I would find here, in the west of Jutland... ;-) |
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