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Tiomila 2008 slow motion Tiomila 2008 in slow motion(4 min 28 sec)
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Another look at some terrain using lidarI spent a bit more time playing with lidar data.
This image is pretty interesting. You can see the stream and ditch beds. The scale, by the way, w ... |
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- O-sport RussiaEverest climb documentaryInstead of writing something, I spent most of the evening glued to the TV watching a PBS documentary about climbing Everest (You can apparently watch ... |
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Ice vestsI spent some time this weekend in front of the TV watching the Giro dItalia bike race. The Slipstream-Chippotle team won the team time trial. Accord ... |
A Swedish comparison of lidar and O' mapsA comparison of a lidar basemap and an orienteering map from Sweden:
The image is from Erik Zanders paper on lidar as a method for producing orient ... |
Urban Basketball?I came across this map today:
It is from Urb-O, which seems to be a way to begin to introduce kids to orienteering. You can see a short video.
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Mapping Party?Mapping Party? I came across the term when I was browsing through Yep Sport. It turns out there is something called an Open Street Map:
OpenStreetM ... |
Quickroute from West Point "Classic"Here is my Quickroute from the classic day at West Point (M40 course):
The cadets put together a nice course in fantastic terrain. I wish Id felt ... |
West Point Sprint QuickrouteI didnt make it up to West Point in time to run the middle distance race on Saturday. But, I did make it for the afternoons sprint race. Here is my ... |
WeatherI should be on an airplane on my way to Newark. Im not. The flight was canceled due to weather. Ill be on a flight first thing tomorrow a.m. But, ... |
Short quote from Ingunn Weltzien on sprint orienteeringIngunn Weltzien finished 2nd in the Swedish sprint champs. Here are a couple of roughly translated quotes from Kondis report of the race:
...I start ... |
Wine and Catching FeaturesIts really hard to play Catching Features after drinking wine.
Well, yes, I guess it is.
High Tech O Snapshot
Anders Tiltnes...Glowing red eyes, GP ... |
Snapshot from Tio Mila web coverageWhen you follow Tio Mila on the web, youve got to wear a headlamp:
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Quickroute from LetchworthHere is my Quickroute track from the middle distance race at Letchworth.
The track is a bit rougher than usual. Maybe I wasnt getting good signals ... |
Tero's techniqueFrom a Swedish newspaper interview with Thierry Gueorgiou (quickly translated):
I have the experience necessary to not be bothered [by contact with ... |
Okansas Tio Mila Team1. 12.7 km night: Sanna Wallenborg. Sanna is our start specialist. Sanna is, in fact, running the first leg for IF Thors 2 womens team.
2. 12.3 nig ... |
Page with lots of maps from SpainI know next to nothing about orienteering in Spain. But, it seems like there are a fair number of orienteers and some interesting maps - check out th ... |
Relay Champs snapshotMook - Orienteer Kansas anchor runner - approaching a spectator control at the U.S. Relay Champs.
Black and white? Turns out I had unintentionally ... |
That's right, "maladaptive changes in event-related brain ne...Todays New York Times reported on some researchers who study what is going on in the brain when people make a mistake while playing a game. That caug ... |
From a Janne Salmi interviewAn email arrived in my in-box this weekend with links to Swedish language interviews with Minna Kauppi and Janne Salmi (Finnish TV). Thanks.
Both in ... |
Next update on Monday?Im heading off to the U.S. relay champs this weekend. Ill probably update this page on Monday.
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See few limitsHere is a good bit of advice - see few limits.
I came across this idea in a book by Paul Shirley about the difference between how basketball players ... |
swiss selection races and the middle distance champsLast Thursday I took part in the first two of four selection races for the European champs in Latvia. I am allowed to take part in the Swiss selection ... |
What can you learn from Quickroute?Ive decided itd be fun to see if I can learn something from looking at Quickroute tracks from other orienteers. I started by looking at Toms long rac ... |
Alone in the forest; 1 of 100,000 on the streetMary and I went to Perry today to run on some of the mountain bike trails. I printed out the Lidar contours and spent the run checking out the contou ... |
Thinking techniqueAnders Nordberg wrote about todays Czech long distance race. Here is a very rough translation of a bit of it:
On a long distance like this, I try to ... |
Czech mapI went over to Worldofo.com hoping to find an inspiring story of O map. The story about a WOC training camp in teh Czech Republic caught my eye and I ... |
motivated for LausanneYesterday, Swiss Orienteering announced that WOC 2012, if selected to be in Switzerland (there are no other applicants) will be held in Lausanne. Clic ... |
preparing for...the swiss cross championships next weekend by running a cross race this weekend. Take a look: Results are here |
training camp in spain On Friday the 15th of February, Marc and I left Switzerland with the Swiss National team for a training camp in Spain. The “winter†O-camp that t ... |
training camp in lanzarote Our vacation in Lanzarote was filled with exciting runs, and beautiful site-seeing. This interesting island, formed by volcano activity has hardly an ... |
l a n z a r o t e Marc and I are going to Lanzarote!! We are leaving on Tuesday the 22nd and spending 10 days on the island. We will be in good company, we are going w ... |
innovative Yesterday, Marc and I met with Bill from inov-8-swiss. Inov-8 has offered us a sponsorship! We are now lucky to be able to try the shoes and be suppo ... |
looking back at 2007 Training summary 2005 2006 2007Running 149h 207h 180hO-ing 66h 100h 98hStrength 47h 43h 52hTotal(with other training ... |
2008 US O Team selectedMale: (alphabetically) A -- Eric Bone, Boris Granovsky B -- Eddie Bergeron, John Fredrickson, Clem McGrath, Wyatt Riley C — Greg Balter, Jonathon Ca ... |
kick-start in karlstad! my training break lasted for 3 weeks and it was a nice break. i really needed to let my body recover a bit from this last season. to kick start my wi ... |
Too many injuries... It's time for a training break!It's been a successful season, but also plagued with injuries. It all started in the first week of April when I twisted my ankle and tore a bunch ... |
![]() preparing for woc 2008- czech republic five days time to take a look at the terrain for woc 2008 in the czech republic. my overall impression was that the terrain is fun and nice to run th ... |
woc ukraine -- almost 100% successful! i ran four races at the world championships, and only seven seconds from running a fifth! but let me start at the beginning though.i arrived a few da ... |
world orienteering championships, kiev, ukraine i am off to Kiev tomorrow, for the world orienteering championships. i feel in form and i have done my homework, so i guess it's just up to me no ... |
finland for the world cup and jukola, sweden for training, n... in june i managed the step into the competitive O world again. it felt good to be back. even though my running speed was not up to par at the world c ... |
![]() o training on course, some delay along the way.here are four maps of trainings i have done in the last two weeks. i was able to do my first o training on the 22nd of may after 6.5 weeks of waiting ... |
motivation motivation is a tricky thing, but i feel lucky that most often i have no lack of it. i do have to say though that since i injured my ankle i have had ... |
i'm blue... after a successful trip to sweden for the swedish ultralong championships (where i had a solid race and ended up 33rd) i felt good and ready for some ... |
![]() it's been a while... since my last post in january a lot of things have happened. marc and i moved to magglingen where i work. magglingen is a small town above biel on a ... |
los angeles, disneyland, and the wild desert of anza borregoMarc and I traveled to Los Angeles on Wednesday Jan. 10th and stayed until Monday morning. We had the good luck of being offered a place to stay with ... |
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Øystein Kvaal Østerbø EOC selection race for Long (13.05 23:50) +5
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Øystein Kvaal Østerbø EOC selection race for Long (13.05 23:50) +5
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