Huippuliiga and Silva League Wrap-up

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Helt sänkt! Silva League 6 och final.

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Sverige

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LIVE GPS-tracking from Norwegian WOC-selection race midd...

Svenska Cupen MTBO: seger!

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Norge i Rødt, Hvitt og Blått !

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En i ansiktet

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It should have been a quiet week..BUT..

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O-Army in Eksjö

Silva League: Totaltrea!

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Nulltoleranse

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The Run and Centrum Team Sprint

Löpfri men träningsfull

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DM Sprint and Silva League in Örebro

Just another Friday

Thanks to the awesome roster up here at Whangarei Hospital, house officers like me get two weekdays off if we work a weekend. Due to racing commitments earlier in the year I had swapped to work two we ...
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How’s your grip?

Whangarei has seen some pretty heavy rain lately. Trails that were bone dry weeks ago are now slide-fests. The clay base up here sucks the water up to leave a slick surface. In places where there are ...
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Cape Brett – Relentless Forward Progress

Cape Brett sits on the East Coast and marks out the southern end of the Bay of Islands. It is a narrow, rugged finger of land, marked on either side by multiple coves and bays and covered with native ...
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29er’s – not just for XC anymore

29er, 650b, 26. All 3 wheel sizes are now fighting for supremacy in the mountain bike market. I’m a big 29er fan, my Trek Superfly fits really well with my riding style and the type of trail ...
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NZ Orienteering Champs – Middle

Christchurch coastal pines can be an orienteering enigma. Variable vegetation, complex contours and tortuous tracks – nothing about the forests North of Christchurch make orienteering easy. ...
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Xterra 2013

2013 is a year for firsts. First year house surgeon, first year out of uni and first triathlon. If I was to be strictly accurate I did race the Weetbix Kiwi Kids triathlon as a child. I tore up Kohima ...
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Portugal Training Camp

As I mentioned in my last post, I was the lucky winner of the worldofo.com prize for picking the winning course in the course of the year competition, and my reward was an all expenses paid 4 day trai ...
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The Timber Trail

The Pureoras hold a fond place in my memory. I spent one of the coldest nights in my life tucked up in the bush on the upper slopes of Mt Pureora. The central plateau in May can be a cold … ...
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NZ Sprint Nationals M21E results

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The Goat Kaimai – a new epic?

  My legs are burning. Each stair feels higher than the last. Do I go quickly to get it over with, or ease off a little for some respite? The forest shuffles side to side in the breeze, unawa ...
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Dr Allen Lim and “drinking your calories”

Looking through some of my regular favourite sites on the web I stumbled across this video from Allen Lim of Skratch Labs. He is an american exercise physiologist who has done alot of work with profes ...
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The Long Summer (Megablog 4)

Its been yonks since Ive written anything decent on here, it seems to be becoming quite a habit! I have resolved to make more of an effort this year :)I was fortunate enough to keep myAchilles (plural ...
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Sprint The Bay - WRE

After recently arriving back in New Zealand for a long summer, Im happy to announce another exciting development for my brother Duncan and myself in our roles as event organisers: Stage 1 of Dirty D S ...
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Matt Ogden - NZ JWOC Gold Medallist - Race Analysis

This is basically a step by step guide on how to win JWOC. Matt has made a complete breakdown of his middle distance race so that he can share his great experience with everyone. It makes ...
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Cool Sprint Video (STB Promo)

Duncan Morrison interviews JWOC middle distance gold medalist andSTB 2012 co-organiser Matt Ogden about his thoughts on the Stage 5 raceNew Zealand is now the place to be for orienteering (especially ...
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It's official! New Zealand is the best!!

Matt Ogden from New Zealand has just won the JWOC middle distance in Slovakia! - A prophecy has been fulfilled. This guy is the saviour of NZ orienteering! Everyone better watch out! - The new Gueorgi ...
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NZ World Cups & Sprint the Bay - Enter Now!

HBOC farmland -trickierthan it sounds!In January of 2013, for the first time in my elite career, New Zealand will be hosting World Cup races inconjunction with the Oceania orienteering carnival :) The ...
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EOC + videos :)

This was the second time Ive run in the European Champs (the last time in 2008), unfortunately now Im in the worst shape Ive been in for some years, but I decided to race anyway and chance getting som ...
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Megablog 3! (including O-Videos :D)

Well well well, its been a while since I wrote anything about myself on here! Im making bit of a habit out of neglecting my blog for months and then squeezing everything into one giant post! I suppose ...
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Sprint the Bay Update

Current Mens Elite Leader, Tim Robertson NZLTonight at 21.30 (CET), the first start Stage 5 of Sprint the Bay 2012 will be streaming live webcam and results from New Zealand (this page). There were un ...
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Live Streaming Mass Start sprints this Friday (3rd Feb) from ...

There will be live video, commentary and results at this years Dirty D Sprint the Bay in New Zealand. The first Stage of the 6 sprint races over the weekend will be the first ever mass start sprint ra ...
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GoPro head-cam training video

I managed to save up some mobility in my feet for a training camp with my club last weekend :)Heres a video I made with the GoPro camera footage from one of the trainings. (It looks better if you chan ...
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New Sprint Video

Check out this cool preview for STB 2012.More and more work is going into STB each year as it grows bigger and better. In 2012 we hope for the biggest turnout yet. Entry has been open less than a week ...
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World Cup 2013/Oceania teaser

Once again the blog has fallen silent but by no means does that mean the orienteering has stopped! In just over a year we finally see the return of World Cup orienteering to NZ, something I for one a ...
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WOC Preview

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s92/sh/4cbdb181-46f6-4a23-a6f6-164c3da385e1/d60e2e3554ed07b6bd84c9e8f9848fda Eight of New Zealands best orienteers have gathered in the Savoy region of France to compete ...
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Getting ahead of myself!

WOC is about to start tomorrow (the long qual) with my first race being on Sunday (the middle qual), and although I should be focusing on what Im doing I cant help but be distracted by this awesome pr ...
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France Rocks!

Quite literally too... After a week here I have 2 bad ankles, but not bad enough to stop me enjoying the awesome terrain. Before coming to France I had only heard negative things; Its soo green, Its s ...
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Cool Orienteering Video

Mick Finn has been doing heaps of great work in NZ lately trying to up the profile of orienteering by creating cool videos and magazines. This video is some of his finest work to date, covering the Qu ...
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The Pursuit of Happiness (Megablog pt.2)

The last month has been a busy one! First up I had a huge weekend over Queens Birthday, with 5 races - over 50km of orienteering including the ANZ challenge (NZ vs. Australia) :)The Saturday started w ...
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Aus WOC Trials

A couple of weekends ago I headed down to Tassie for the Australian WOC trials. A bit late writing up you might say, well since then I’ve relocated myself across the world and am now in Rome up ...
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Vote for Me! (Please??!!!) :D

Hey hey people, heres your big chance to help a kiwi Orienteer! I applied for an AMP scholarship to help kiwi people do their thing. One of the categories is a peoples choice award, so the person with ...
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Running Free...

One for the next interval session.....
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O-Squad Blog - Jumping on the Train

New Zealand elite orienteering is gathering steam, and the O Squad Blog is going to jump on this train... Everything is looking up. The Regal Orienteering Carnival is upon us. Next weekend the Pinest ...
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Training Training Training

NZ champs was the perfect motivation for me to start enjoying my training again. Im not saying I wasnt having fun before, but now Im looking forward to each session and always have a specific focus or ...
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