Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Saturday, April 26, 2008 Okansas Tio Mila Team 1. 12.7 km night: Sanna Wallenborg. Sanna is our start specialist. Sanna is, in fact, running the first leg for IF Thor's 2 women's team. 2. 12.3 night: Magnus Wallenborg. We need a fit night runner to take this longish leg - Magnus fits the bill. Magnus is running the 9th leg for IF Thor's 1 team this year. (Where none other than Ola Lind has The Long Night). 3. 6.9 night: Snorkel Meenehan. Snorkel hasn't done much orienteering recently. His physical conditioning is questionable (though he is talking about running a half marathon soon). Still, he's got a lot of O' experience...and he owns a headlamp...so he gets this short night leg. 4. 16.5 night: Boris Granovskiy. Boris has no real connection to OK. I wouldn't generally put someone like that on the Okansas team. But, Boris is an Attackpoint favorite and he's about to become the first American (I think) to run "The Long Night." That deserves some recognition. Boris is running for CSU's team. 5. 6.9 night: Patrick Nuss. Patrick's recent injury problems mean he gets a short leg. Still, I think he can pull a great run out the bag when the time comes. 6. 9.6 night: Michael E. I put myself on this long, but not too long, night leg. I'm not as fit as I'd like, but my orienteering has been working pretty well the last few races. It has been 17 years since I last ran Tio Mila. It seems like yesterday. 7. 9.6 night/dawn: Gene W. Gene's getting ready for a marathon in a week or 2. So, he's in good shape for a long, steady run. 8. 5.7 day: Peggy D. Peggy ran well as the start leg for the OK relay team last weekend. Like most of the team, she's not in the shape or her life, but she can fall back on experience. 9. 5.7 day: Mary J. Mary had a strong run last weekend at the relays and earned this short leg at Tio Mila. 10. 17.5 day: Mook Everett. Like Mary and Peggy, Mook turned in a good race at last weekend's relay. He's become OK's anchor specialist. He'll be ready for the anchor at Tio Mila. Reserve runners will be Fritz M. and Dave "Legs" L. Maybe being just outside of the team this year will inspire them to work hard next year. A team needs some coaching help. This year's coaches will be: Lisa C. Lisa's knowledge of the Swedish language and culture will be especially useful. We figure Tom will also tag along and make himself useful, too. Aspleaf. Aspleaf's extensive knowledge of Tio Mila and of orienteering technique will make him a valuable coach. We plan to pay him a salary (a combination of beer and collectible North American soccer jerseys). Peter G. Peter (who is, in fact, running the 8th leg for CSU this year) will be team driver. His job will be to rent a van and shuttle the team back and forth from the event site and Arlanda. We plan to use a compass lanyard to attach the van key to his wrist (which should cut down the time it takes him to find the keys). Eddie B. Eddie is the team photographer (see above snapshot). Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:31 AM 
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PG is an excellent driver! Good choice.
The rest of the team is conventionally solid. Good luck! Clem # posted by
 : 9:01 PM
Yes! My first OK Tio Mila team!
Giving me a night leg is a little scary, though... # posted by
: 7:10 PM
Coach!
Wow, Thanks. I just had a 30 hour hands on traing as coach on 10mila. I coached 10 teams during this weekend so I think I just might be able to handle you guys. I really like the beer-salary and if I can have a beer-wish throw in some Samuel Adams, Brooklyn, Anchour and Sierra Nevada in there.
Eddie took the photo. I don't know if you saw the run in, but right about when Eddie took the photo, Mary went in to a flat out sprint. She's actually quite fast for a short distance.
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