Route to Christmas: Day 10 2013

Orienteering Achievement of 2013: Vote Now!

Route to Christmas: Day 9 2013

Route to Christmas: Day 8 2013

TRRRaining

Route to Christmas: Day 6 2013

Route to Christmas: Day 7 2013

Route to Christmas: Day 4 2013

When the lights go out

Route to Christmas: Day 5 2013

New PB 3000 m indoor 9:41,1

Route to Christmas: Day 3 2013

Rally from Taita Hills to the Independence Day Reception

Forget the Cold

Kung av Kungsan

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Blue Hills Traverse

Ive taken a few years off from the Blue Hills Traverse, even though its a good race thats held every year and its relatively local. The last one I did, in 2010, was just a really bad day for me, and l ...
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DVOA Fall orienteering festival

After a lot of travel weekends lately, I wasnt too psyched about another long drive, this time down to French Creek State Park, west of Philly. But, the Delaware Valley Orienteering Association held a ...
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Raid the Hammer

Last year, Ali and Amy Rusiecki and I did this adventure race in Canada as Team Giggles. We won the womens division, and were close on the heels of the mens teams, just five minutes out of the lead in ...
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New England autumn

This has been a glorious fall in New England. Its finally getting cold enough at night that it truly feels like fall, and the trees got that memo, breaking out into these brilliant flaming colors, coa ...
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U.S. Two-day classic championships

Last weekend was the two-day classic championships in orienteering, up at Bear Brook State Park in NH. There are too many US Champs in orienteering, mostly because we cant agree to do what the rest of ...
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Seasonal update!

About one post per season seems about right :) Its just a day after my birthday and Im home from work sick with a cold. Staying home today was mostly out of consideration for others, as today is a me ...
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Canadian Nationals

Last weekend I headed over to Hamilton, ON with Zan and Anna for the Canadian orienteering national championships. It was a long drive, but well worth it, as the event was incredibly well run, had two ...
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Hudson Highlander

I never got around to writing about the Highlander on here. It happened. I finished. Id never done it before. Thats a heck of a race, and it kicked my butt. I wrote up a race review for Inov-8, so you ...
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Pisgah 50k

I have been doing more running this summer than in past years, in part because I was feeling a bit burned by orienteering after Worlds, and I just wanted to put one foot in front of the other. Running ...
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Wapack Trail Race

Ive run the Wapack trail a few times, since the CSU ski camp uses it for one of our long OD runs, but Ive never done the race. Id certainly heard Rob talk about it, and figured I may as well try it ou ...
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Orienteering (and looking at animals) in South Africa

Mary and I ran a local orienteering event near Johannesburg, South Africa, a few weeks ago.   I had a clean, but slow, race.  The area sits about 1600 meters above sea level.  Thats enough to ...
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Greylock, and a corn maze

Last weekend, the Jospe pack gathered on top of Mt. Greylock for a quick weekend vacation. It was pretty awesome, involving some hiking, some biking, and a trip to Sunderland for the corn maze o. A ni ...
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Lynn Woods Relay

A few weeks back, Jamie sent an email probing to see if there were any interest in putting together some teams for the Lynn Woods relay. This is a pretty big race, with teams of four each running 2.5m ...
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People's Forest trail race

Im a week behind, here, but this race was pretty awesome, so deserves a write-up. I convinced Zan and Brendan to come play at a trail race with me, even though it was kind of far away, in western Con ...
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First Race Accomplished!

Today was the first of three races for us here at the World Games. It was the sprint distance and it was held in a park and residential area in the southern part of the city. Ross ran a great race, p ...
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World Games!

Wednesday morning we woke up in the 3rd tallest building in Colombia, and headed downstairs to a breakfast of fresh pineapple, scrambled eggs, and a colorful rice and meat dish. Sam and I are in Cal ...
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Greetings from Cali!

This week Alison Crocker, Eric Bone, Ross Smith and myself (Samantha Saeger) are in Cali, Colombia to participate in the World Games. Ross wrote an update on our personal blog, which you can readhere ...
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Vermont 100 crew

Before I left for Finland, Amy Rusiecki, giggle #3 of Team Giggles, sent an innocuous email asking if I were busy the weekend of 7/21-22. She was looking to fill out a crew to pace and crew her for th ...
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Some photos from WOC

Thanks to Ken for coming along as our official team photographer - he grabbed some great shots. Unfortunately, some of my photos its painfully obvious how slowly Im moving, but hey, Ive never been one ...
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Departure from the serious -- what the heck does a team leade...

Sometimes it feels like the world is against you.The US team to WOC this year was made up of 10 athletes (5 women, 5 men) and two team leaders. Everyone already knows what the athletes do -- eat a lo ...
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WOC 2013: It's a wrap!

WOC 2013 in Vuokatti, Finland is finished and US team members have once again set off to various destinations around the world.Were a good looking team, arent we? (All photos by Kenny!)As in most yea ...
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Orienteering World Championships, 2013

The 2013 World Orienteering Champs is a wrap, and Im sitting in an airport most of the way home, playing the woulda-shoulda-coulda game and wondering what needs to change for next year... these champi ...
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Middle Qual: whut.

Yesterday (Thursday) was the Middle Qualification race and we had a full line-up: Ali, Sam, Hannah, Boris, Eric, and Brendan. Those watching the coverage online or in the arena, with gps-tracking, wi ...
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Trail-o day 2

Sharon had a fantastic day today. Once again she got all of the timed controls correct and she only missed two controls on the course. Her score of 19 out of 21 placed her 17th for the day and pulled ...
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Trail-O team thinking hard

Today was the first day of competition for the Trail-O Team. 20 controls and four timed controls made for a challenging exercise. I had our best result with a score of 18 out of 24 correct, placing m ...
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Clare's pics from the opening ceremony

Ross and Eric show USA spiritTeam USA is attentiveRoss hangs with Clares photo pal Jersey;
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Shaving Ross Smith

Take one normal American.Well, perhaps not fully normal.Shave a triple mohawk using a mouse-shaver.Let the subject run free for a few days to determine if he likes the haircut.Apply hair gel liberall ...
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Ali 18th in WOC Long distance!

Alison Crocker had USAs best-ever finish in a WOC race today by coming 18th in the long distance final. She ran very well technically from start to finish and was helped by a great route choice on th ...
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US v Peer Nations WOC rankings

Peer nation standings after the long qualification, sprint qualification and sprint finals races: Portugal New Zealand Belgium Ireland USA, Canada, Japan are all tied Back to okansas.blogspot.com.
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Final JWOC peer nations ranking

After the JWOC relays, I came up with my final JWOC peer nation rankings. New Zealand 96 Ireland 83 Belgium 71 Japan 69 Portugal 67 USA Can 46 The scores can be interpreted as the chance that a matc ...
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Ali 9th in Long Qual!

Ali stormed through the Finnish forest today and placed 9th in her qualification heat, easily qualifying for the final, which is on Tuesday. Heres Ali talking about her race:;
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Long Qualification Report from Wyatt

Pull up a chair and get ready for a race report from Wyatt, who ran the Long Qualification today: I had a pretty good race, for me, today, in the WOC Long Qualification. With my best 5k in the past 2 ...
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Trail-O Pre competition

The Trail-O team of Clare Durand, Sharon Crawford, and Peter Goodwin got some practice in over the past two days. A competition set by Lauri Kontkanen - past Gold Medal winner - gave us an opportunit ...
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Team USA gets in the spirit!

Last night Alex helped fellow team member Ross get ready to race. It involved a par of clippers and some new snazzy racing stripes!While the rest of the guys tried on their GPS sports bras for the lo ...
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Meet Team USA!

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Long Qual tomorrow!

Tomorrow is the Long Qualification race, where 3 of our men and 3 of our women will compete places in the Long Final -- top 15 in each heat move on to the final, which is on Tuesday.Start teams for T ...
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Pre-WOC jitters

The training is all finished now. Nothing more can be done physically, it all comes down to the mental acumen and psychological state at this point. How well can we anticipate the controls appearing e ...
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JWOC peer nation rankings...no changes after sprint

After todays JWOC sprint there are no changes in the overall peer nation rankings: New Zealand Ireland Japan Belgium Portugal USA Canada Back to okansas.blogspot.com.
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Portugal moves up in my JWOC rankings

Based on the middle distance finals at JWOC, Portugal moved up a notch (after being tied with USA going into the middle finals).  The key for Portugal was having one A qualifier in the mens race and ...
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View from the Tour

Janet Swartz: The Tour juniors at the Sprint I am Dans mother -- he is doing the JWOC Tour but was not able to do the training in Trutnov because of his school schedule, so we joined teh group in Hra ...
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Middle Finals

Most of the JWOC team was happy after finishing, feeling good about their races. Both our B final runners had really good performances. One of the best things about this trip to Europe is buildin ...
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After 2 days...JWOC peer nation rankings

Here are my peer nation rankings after the first two days of the JWOC. New Zealand Ireland Japan Belgium USA and Portugal (tie) Canada Both Beligium and Portugal suffered from a number of DQs in the ...
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July 2, 2013: JWOC Middle Qual and JWOC Tour Middle

Bud OLeary (Dans father): Recreational orienteering at the JWOC Tour Each day affords teh non-competitive orienteer opportunities to enjoy the terrain and courses of the JWOC Toru. We decided to e ...
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Ethan's take on the JWOC Long race

Ethan: The JWOC long was a race I was both dreading and looking forward to. I didnt have to wake up early because of my late start, but this also meant a lot of sitting around with nothing to do for ...
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First look at JWOC results and peer nations

I took a look at the JWOC results by looking at the U.S. and my list of peer nations after the first days race.  You can read a bit of background on the peer nations approach.  Keep in mind that Ive ...
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Early bird (angry birds?) team USA takes on Finland!

I dont want to detract from the Junior Team and their great posts, but three of the Senior Team got to Finland a week and change early for the World Champs. Ali Crocker, Brendan Shields, and Alex Jos ...
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Finland: Säyneinen regional race

I flew to Finland on Thursday evening, picked up a rental car in Helsinki, picked up Ali and Brendan (whod arrived a day earlier), and kept driving north for a few hours, until we arrived in Leppä ...
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JWOC training: middle and sprint

Addison: Still in the routine, waking up at 7:55 getting ready for breakfast and for a long day of training. Ready to be ready at 9:30 for training. Once again PARTY RIDE! We play our iPods i ...
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JWOC team news

Barbara: Hello Orienteering Fans!! My name is Barbara Ziolkoski and I get the honor of writing a blog tonight. I want to start off by thanking The young kids who sent us that long poster. That was ...
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Monday June 24: Long training

Danielle: The chilly morning breeze blowing in through my cracked window made me extremely reluctant to leave the warmth and comfort of the hotel bed. Not even my persistent alarm clock was enough t ...
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