Later than ever – a review of 2018

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Tough but exciting day in the high altitude of #tenerife...

ASOM 2019 in Oostende - de Stad aan Zee from June 28 - 3...

Experience report about my high altitude camp in Kenya

Enjoying the sunny conditions on Gran Canaria with Koove...

Heute habe ich meinen Renneinstand gegeben im 2019. Vor ...

A few map samples from our o-travel.com training camp in...

Sunrise, not the telephone provider??... #trainingcamp #...

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Hakuna Matata Kenia

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Back home, but almost as warm and sunny as it was in Spa...

Might the Jungfrau-Marathon be a season highlight for yo...

Mzungu in Matatu

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The Bogburn: two perspectives

Version 1:The indoor track workout got moved to Friday night, and I cant miss those because I paid perfectly good money to go run in teeny tiny circles. After the workout, I bribed Ed to pick me up by ...
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Blue Hills Traverse and Thanksgiving Camp

This years Blue Hills Traverse went to new parts of the Blue Hills, starting on Ponkapoag and transitioning to BH West. It was a nice course, with legit features (though 17 was annoying), friendly run ...
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Loco Marathon

I got the idea in my head a few years back that I wanted to run the Boston Marathon. I mean, Im a runner, I live in Boston, it only makes sense that I should do this race. But youve gotta qualify for ...
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Orienteering USA Nationals

Orienteering USA Nationals were hosted by the Southern Michigan Orienteering Club and Orienteering Cincinnati, two weekends back. The joint effort meant that the venues were spread pretty far apart, b ...
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Pemi loop

This hike has been on my bucket list for a while, so when Ari mentioned that he wanted to run the Pemi loop this fall, I thought it might fit perfectly in with my marathon training. Kind of. At least ...
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Pisgah 50k

Laramie kicked off a few weekends of racing, which is the good stuff as far as Im concerned. Upon coming home, we had the Louisa May Alcott 5k with my junior skiers, and I jumped into the 10k, in ligh ...
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Rocky Mountain Orienteering Festival

The Orienteering USA Annual General Meeting was out in Laramie this year at the Rocky Mountain Orienteering Festival, and that seemed like as good an excuse as any to do some orienteering and dust off ...
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Adventuring

I havent raced much this summer. I had to sit out the Greylock race, with my knee still bumming, and even though Ive since taken myself off the injured list and am training again, I havent found my ra ...
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WOC Long

Results for the mens and womens races can be found here.Tori:This was my first individual forest race, and although I was initially really nervous when I found out I’d be running a WOC long, I knew ...
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Relay Prep

Tomorrow is the WOC relay and Team USA is getting ready.The women start first at 14:20 (7:20 am on the East Coast). The womens team is Ali, Tori, and Amanda in that order.The men will take to the woo ...
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WOC 2018: Middle

Team USA had a good day in the middle with Ali coming in 40th and Anton coming in 55th.Here are Alis comments about the race:I started very early (4th starter) and knew I’d have a chance to finish ...
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WOC 2018: Sprint Relay

The sprint relay was two days ago, and the team had a solid run, holding on to their seed from the previous year finishing in 24th place.Julia started the team off, beating Australia in the run-in to ...
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WOC 2018 is upon us!

Hello, everyone!The 2018 US WOC team is in Riga and has just finished the first day of sprinting.Sprint relay is tomorrow and the order isJulia-Eric-Giacomo-Tyra. Live results will be posted on the W ...
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CSU ski camp/vacation

I just got back from two weeks of vacation; a week in Vermont with Eds family at grammy camp, followed by a week in Winchendon coaching at the CSU summer camp, which ended around lunchtime on Friday, ...
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Boston Sprint Camp and a skier adventure weekend

Ed and I pulled off the fourth year of Boston Sprint Camps two weekends ago. This is a fun event, usually very personal and interactive thanks to the small number of runners. Like the past few years, ...
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Unstarted races

May had promised to be this great month of racing. When I lined up the competitions in February, training was on track, and I was super psyched to get to the point of the season where the work is done ...
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Billygoat 2018

The Billygoat is one of my favorite races, and also one that I happen to be very good at. Long mass start orienteering race where youre allowed to follow people? sign me up! This year, however, thanks ...
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The off season

Its been a long while since Ive had a true off season. Once I transitioned to no longer thinking of myself as an elite-wannabe-skier, the off season felt superfluous, and there was so much fun stuff h ...
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Spring Fling and Supertour

I hadnt been planning to head back to Craftsbury for the Supertour Finals. But, Ed had been in Vermont for a month, with no plans of coming home, timing various races, so that was my only chance to se ...
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Eastern Highschool Championships

The last official race of the season was the Eastern Highschool Champs, up in Rumford ME. CSU sent pretty much every kid to this race on the Massachusetts team, and I was head coach, which meant I cou ...
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Craftsbury World Cup

Probably two years ago, Adrian and Ken got excited about hosting a World Cup for ski orienteering in the US. They got the IOF excited (which doesnt take much, considering that orienteering with a glob ...
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Planning for a World Cup

Yall. Nobody said that hosting a World Cup for Ski Orienteering was going to be easy. But I clearly did not give it nearly enough respect. Supposedly Im just setting courses, but we all know how that ...
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Final Eastern Cups

The last three Eastern Cups have gone by in a blur. We were at Rikert the weekend before Masters, and then Craftsbury the weekend after. I only did the skate race at Rikert, knowing Id be needed for w ...
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Masters World Cup

Last summer, Kathy mentioned to Rob and me that the World Masters were going to be in Minneapolis, and thus we should go race there. Hey, why not? Its an easy trip, no time changes, and lots of suppor ...
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2017 Racing Review

After my races at the 2016 North American Championships, where I landed on the podium three times, I retired from international orienteering. I expected to be racing less often, and took on a position ...
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Mont Sainte Anne training camp

The usual whirlwind around the holidays took us to Rochester, where we spent some days with my family, and then off to Canada. Only not quite so fast, because Id left my passport in Boston. Luckily th ...
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Fort Kent Eastern Cups

The last time I was in Fort Kent, it was for the U16 Championships in 2015, and the Massachusetts Team was on a coach bus that couldnt quite handle the snowstorm that hit Sunday afternoon. It took us ...
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Ice Weasels

A few weeks ago, we were hanging out with Jess and Graham, and Id clearly had one beer too many, because somehow the topic of Ice Weasels came up, and I agreed to do the race if Graham got into the Ki ...
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US Classic Champs

As the Orienteering USA VP of Competition, one of the things Ive done is to work with a group to streamline our extensive list of orienteering championship competitions, starting next year. So, the US ...
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Mt. Toby Trail Race

The final Grand Tree race that would fit into my schedule was the Mt. Toby Trail Race. Ive never done this one, and despite spending two years staying with Peter and Gail at the edge of the forest, Iv ...
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