Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 An old map from AspleafA fine old map that Aspleaf posted the other day: The map is from the 1985 World Champs in Australia. Sweet terrain. Annichen Kringstad won the women's race despite some big booms (look at controls 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8). Kari Sallinen won the men's race. When I think of Sallinen, I remember an interview with him. A "peak performance professional" from the U.S. interviewed a bunch of elite orienteers and put together a tape summarizing some of the interviews. Sallinen talked about knowing how his form was by how it felt to walk up the stairs on one of the Sweden-Finland ferry boats when he was going to Tio Mila. For some reason, that comment stuck in my memory. Every time I climb a few flights of stairs, I think about how my legs feel and that compares to when I'm fittest. Dan Meenehan had a bad day at the WOC in Australia. He fell and smashed his knee on a rock in the early part of the course (somewhere around control 6, I think). Instead of DNF'ing, he walked the course and finished dead last. He used to point out that he and Kari Sallinen were forever linked because the easiest places to see on a results sheet are first and last. I guess that says something about Dan's sense of humor. The 1985 WOC is well remembered for Ted De St Croix's fine result, too. He finished 10th. He was 7.8 percent behind the winner. To put that in perspective, think about Sandy Hott Johansen's result in the 2005 WOC in Japan. Sandy finished 9th (if I remember correctly) - a very, very good result. She was 16.9 percent behind. In the middle qualifying race, Sandy was 3rd (if I remember correctly) and was 9.3 percent back. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 7:50 PM 
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