WRE Spain & Turkey: Maps and Results

Introducing the 2DRerun CoursePlanning Module

New results at 1000-3000 m of Galina Vinogradova and run...

XC-skiing in Beitostølen!

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Från ett VM till ett annat

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Andalucia O Meeting was fun today! Now off to Barbate wi...

POM, a positive start to the year

Testdag på Olympiatoppen idag. Spenst, styrke, krop...

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Práce domestika v slunné Andalusii

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Had my last day at work as physical therapist today for ...

Lidingö camp in Guardamar

Time after time

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An interview from Portugal O Meeting about my goals and ...

3 weeks of winter was enough, now enjoying the nice cond...

Oops, I did it again….

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Here is the presentation video for the "Thurgauer S...

Tasmanische Berge und Tiere

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Liestal 4 month later! In October last year we sprinted ...

World ski orienteering championships

Warning - this is a long one. I meant to update more frequently while in Norway, but the internet was bad enough that Im just posting the whole shebang all at once!Im skiing!! In Norway!!I just got ba ...
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Baby Shower Baking

Kate and I hosted a surprise baby shower for Elisa this weekend. No one who attended, including Kate and I, has ever actually been to a baby shower before but luckily pintrest had us covered for food ...
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Ski Orienteering World Champs!

The U.S. ski-o team is headed to Norway, for the 2015 World Ski Orienteering Championships. Well be arriving in ones and twos over the weekend until everyone finally gathers in our tiny little Norweg ...
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Winter Skiing

Our winter skiing started a few weeks ago when we went with the club up to Orsa. It was much warmer than years past, and I really enjoyed the skiing. I skate skied Saturday and Sunday morning on my o ...
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White Mountain Classic 30k

Last Saturday was the first long race of the season, but unfortunately, all the rain last weekend made it so they had to shorten the course, and our 30k became more like a 20k. The course was in great ...
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Tuesday Night Worlds

The Tuesday night scene has started up, and were two races in. I much preferred the conditions last week to this week; slightly slower snow meant more skiing, but it was still fast enough to get in so ...
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Rumford Eastern Cup

The second Eastern Cup of the season was at Black Mountain, in Rumford ME. I love the course at Rumford, it really rewards good skiing and good fitness, and I was finally feeling like I had some of th ...
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Orienteer of the Year

Im honored to be named the US Orienteer of the Year.It truly was a great year. Im also super excited to be a part of the US Womens Team who really rocked it this year at the North Americans and earne ...
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The Bogburn

The Bogburn is a great race - old school narrow trails winding through Bobs forest in the middle of nowhere Vermont, groomed with a snowmobile, and designed to make you smile when you successfully neg ...
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Annual pilgrimage to Quebec

Like any good pilgrim, I left home with a destination in mind. This destination is a cold place, but the skiing is great. I was lucky enough to build a two-week trip around this annual pilgrimage to s ...
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Rikert Eastern Cups

The first race of the season, and my first race as a master, took place last weekend up in Middlebury, VT at the Rikert Touring Center. CSU, as always, arrived en masse, complete with our awesome wax ...
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Remember the awesomeness

And now weve reached the end of another year here in Uppsala. And what an amazing year it has been - both orienteering and otherwise for me. Although I feel like I had my fair share of ups and downs ...
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Early season skiing

The early-season skiings been really good this year, at least for everywhere other than Boston. Weston didnt quite have their act together enough to blow a big enough snow pile to weather the rainsto ...
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Blue Hills Traverse

I won the Blue Hills Traverse last Sunday. I won it last year, too, but this year was considerably more fun. Probably some combination of warmer weather, better course setting, and I was more rested c ...
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NEOC Troll cup

Last week was the New England Orienteering Clubs resurrection of the Troll Cup, a meet with a name steeped in some sort of mostly-forgotten history unless youre among the right crowd. We did a two-day ...
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Wedding Thank Yous

From the Summit Motel, morning of the wedding. By Eric LuthIve been thinking a lot about writing this post, and finding it a bit daunting to explain with words the feelings from the entire day. Ross ...
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Love the Lakes meet

Last weekend was the final national-level orienteering event on my calendar for the fall, down in the middle of nowhere in the Hudson Valley, at the Mountain Lakes state park. Hudson Valley Orienteers ...
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North American Orienteering Championships

The North American Orienteering Championships (NAOC) is an event that happens every two years, alternating between Canada and the United States. Occasionally we get competitors from Barbados, but they ...
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US Orienteering Nationals

Last weekend, the Rochester Orienteering Club hosted nationals for orienteering, with a sprint at Genessee Valley Park, and a long and a middle distance race down at Letchworth. This was great, becaus ...
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Pawtuckaway camping weekend

The other weekend, if you happened to be at Pawtuckaway state park, you might have noticed a whole lot of orienteers congregating in the main pavilion and then dashing off into the forest. Among thes ...
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Pawtuckaway

Last weekend I attended the almost-famous Pawtuckaway Camping weekend, hosted by the UpNorth Orienteers. My relationship with this place has changed, over the years, mostly toward the good end of the ...
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Wapack trail race

Wapack is a great little trail, accessible and yet remote-feeling, with views and rocks and blueberries and hills and things, and though in a race its hard to appreciate any of those things, that does ...
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Corn maze orienteering

The corn maze orienteering shenanigans began as a training event for the gang of five, which was what we called ourselves when Ali and I lived in the valley and got up to all sorts of trouble with Phi ...
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Savoy Mt Trail Race

Ed had so much fun at Peoples forest race he wanted to do another one, and he figured he could handle 14 miles at Savoy, so to Savoy we went, at early-o-clock with Ari. Wheee trail racing!The goal for ...
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WUOC Wrap-up

The last few days have been quite busy, so Ill summarize the end of WUOC with a single post. The sprint was the day after the long. The first few controls of the courses were in the zoo that had a lo ...
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WUOC 2014: Sprint Preview

WUOC SPRINT DISTANCE PREVIEW This afternoon is the WUOC Sprint distance event.The event starts at 15:00pm Czech Time so 14:00 irish/UK time and 9am east coast time. The venue is the village of Svaty ...
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WUOC 2014: Long Distance

Today was the WUOC long distance race. I was the last USA female to start but I wasnt really too concerned about this race anyway as the game plan was to just run it steady and clean. The Long distan ...
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WUOC Long

Day 3 of WUOC featured the long. The weather was perfect for running - cloudy and a bit cool. The terrain was mostly open woods in an area with patches of gnarly green and occasional open areas, surr ...
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WUOC 2014: Opening Ceremony

WUOC 2014 - Opening Ceremony in OlomoucWUOC Officially begun tonight after the Opening Ceremony in the city center. There was no traditional team parade through town this time, and ceremony starte ...
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WUOC Sprint Mixed Relay

WUOC Sprint Relay:Its Day 2 and the first WUOC 2014 medals have already been awarded here in the Czech Republic! In the Sprint Relay, staged around the town of Kromeriz, Switzerland takes the gold af ...
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WUOC 2014: Sprint Relay

Today was the WUOC Sprint Relay in the town of Kroměříž (53km from Olomouc). This is the first time that the Sprint Relay has been run at WUOC and it had a different format t ...
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WUOC 2014: Sprint Relay Trial Race

The Sunday afternoon of WUOC consisted of a test Sprint Relay race. This is a new distance for WUOC that got added this year to keep the championship that same as the WOC format. The Sprint Relay inv ...
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WUOC 2014 Opening Ceremony

Here Giac reporting from Olomouc, Czech Republic:WUOC 2014 has really begun tonight after the official Opening Ceremony in the city Center. There was no traditional parading across the streets here t ...
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WUOC 2014: Long training

Sunday morning the team piled into the car to go off to the Long model event. It was about a 40min drive away but through some pretty countryside with twisting roads. The model map area was on a map ...
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Running up hills!

Just small hills, but Ive been enjoying letting my feet take me up and down hills with the occasional rock thrown in, lately. Two weekends ago, Ed and I headed down to Connecticut for the Peoples Fore ...
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World University Team starts at WUOC 2014

The World University Team has arrived at WUOC in the Czech Republic. The team is made up of:Tori Borish (COC)Alison Campbell (DVOA/Edinburgh University OC, Heriot-Watt University)McKenzie Hudgins (US ...
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WUOC 2014: Middle/Relay training

--> This morning the team went out to the Middle and Relay training area to have a go at understanding this Czech terrain. Most of the team have never been to the Czech Republic before, but we ...
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Traveling to WUOC 2014

Well it was actually a really nice and easy trip to WUOC! It only involved a Plane, Bus, Train and car all which went like clockwork. No epic adventures like getting to WOC last year with 3 flights h ...
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Preview to WUOC 2014

World University Orienteering Championships 2014 - Preview Its a students favorite year in orienteering! It is a WUOC year! The World University Orienteering Championships take place every two ...
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The Adventure that was 3rd year

Well my blog has gone in hibernation a bit since POM. Guess it is time to update and reflect on my 3rd year at Heriot-Watt. The first thing that comes to mind is WHOA what a year! in the most positiv ...
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Transitions, of the minor variety

Ive been back in the normal world for nearly two weeks now, and vacation and the World Champs already feel like a distant memory. I guess thats how it works, you all of a sudden get busy again upon re ...
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WOC Goals

So, this is a bit backwards, but some people have asked about our goals at WOC. We have a few levels of goal setting here. Theres the strategic plan made a few years back, which has goals for 2015. B ...
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Baita Belvedere

We know how to cook on our own. We have lovely dinners :)But sometimes you have to go out and see what the local cuisine has to offer! After a day of walking around the gardens of the local villas... ...
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Traveling after WOC

And were out the other side! And WOC done - and I would say pretty darn successful for us both. There are of course disappointments, but its important to think about the positives. If you want to rea ...
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World champs relay!

Its been three years since I ran a WOC relay. This is the highest honor I can think of, because this is the one race where the sport really becomes reliant on teams. Of course youre thinking of your ...
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World Orienteering Champs: Long Distance

I ran in the Long Distance final of the World Championships on Wednesday. It was a solid race, but nothing spectacular. Of course, sometimes when youre trying too hard for spectacular, you end up with ...
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Relay drama!

The final battle of WOC 2014 was fought at Campomulo, the same area as the middle distance final from the day before. We learned from the middle that the area was tricky and, when you add in a mass s ...
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Relay time!

Its here! The event weve all been waiting for! and its sunny and gorgeous and the terrain is fun and interesting and I get to be on a team with teammates who are also my friends! - Alex, this morning ...
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USA and the challenging middle distance

Fans and athletes expect the Middle Final at WOC to offer courses that are technically challenging to even the best in the world. This years courses didnt disappoint!Beginning of womens course (from ...
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Ready for middle final!

Theres one more individual race left in WOC 2014 and its one that everyone loves -- the middle distance.Heres a preview of the three runners to watch out for in USA gear tomorrow.Ali in the Long Fina ...
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