JWOC 2014: All You Need to Know!

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Summer Orienteering 2014 Part 1: Maps & Reports

The future of 1000 days

Forest WOC

Get high...!, Swiss O Week in Zermatt

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Mission WM-Langdistanz

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WM Medaillen in Italien

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4. og 6.plass i Zermatt

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Stormy WOC

British Champs, Jukola and World Champs preparation

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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Eric on the long

Eric gives us a personal account of his run in the Long Final yesterday: I ran the Long Distance Final race at the World Orienteering Championships today, placing 61st of 84 men. I knew the race woul ...
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Good day in the long for USA!

Ali had the best run for the Americans today in a very physical long race at Lavarone. Her phenomenal 26th place, 12:20 behind winner Svetlana Mironova, will be tough to beat later in the week in the ...
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Going the distance

Wednesday afternoon three speedy members of Team USA will be going the distance (and going for speed) in the long distance final at Lavarone. The women will be running 11km with 435m of climb and 23 ...
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The Soundtrack to a Great Race

In baseball, players can choose a walk up song which is played over the stadium sound system when they enter the game. Orienteering doesnt have closing pitchers, but music still helps us set the righ ...
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Spectating sprint races

I was not selected to run the sprint race at the World Championships this year, and that gave me an excellent opportunity to spectate and cheer for my teammates! The individual sprint was held in Veni ...
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The highs and lows of sport

The first ever WOC Mixed Relay was a day of mixed emotions for Team USA.As this is the first year of the event at WOC, teams were assigned start numbers alphabetically. This meant USA had bib number ...
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Making history - Mixed sprint relay today!

International orienteerings newest discipline, the mixed sprint relay, premieres this afternoon in Trento. That sentence may illicit a cascade of questions. Ill do my best to answer them all!Q. Newes ...
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More photos from the sprint final!

The forest team headed in to Venice to cheer on our sprinters, and after playing around at the spectator race (holy cow tourists EVERYWHERE), we arrived at the arena to cheer for Sam! It was a hot da ...
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De-jet-lagging in Europe

I arrived in London last weekend, to spend a few days with my grandfather and that side of the family, and it was nice to decompress in a place where there is no stress about orienteering or racing. B ...
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Sam 32nd in Sprint!

Samantha Saeger came through with an impressive 32nd place finish in the much anticipated Venice Sprint. Heres a bit about her runs today in her own words (apologies for the text version, its difficu ...
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Sprint Qual recap -- Sam through to final this afternoon!

Sam Saeger was the only American to make it through to the Sprint Final after this mornings Qualification races. Sam finished 15th in Women-B, 1:22 behind heat winner Lena Eliasson of Sweden. All the ...
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Shifting gear!

The sprint squad is heading to bed, but we wanted to share a nice photo from today, to give people a view of what the beach near our hotel looks like and also a view of what the new uniform design is ...
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Sprint Q start times for USA

Startlists for tomorrow mornings sprint qualification race forwomenand menare available from the organizers.For Team USA we have (previous best WOC sprint result):9:09 Tori Borish (first WOC!)9:17 Al ...
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WOC starts tomorrow!

The team is in Italy doing their final preparations -- easy map runs, taper workouts, and topping off their glycogen tanks with a taste of gelato. Tomorrow will be a busy day for the athletes running ...
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Countdown to WOC - arrival to Lavarone

The forest team have arrived to the Lavarone plateau! Eric, Hannah and Alex are settled in and getting used to the terrains, and Wyatt is somewhere around here with his family; well all meet up somew ...
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Countdown to WOC! Relaxation + pre-jetlagging.

For the record, moving out of ones apartment 1.5 weeks before WOC is not the best idea, because moving = stressful! But, Im now happily recovering and relaxing up on a lake in Canada with my family b ...
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Countdown to WOC, taper time! (6 days to go!)

Every training plan needs rest days and the Team USA Countdown to WOC is no exception! The sprint events at WOC are one week away and most of the American athletes will take it a bit easier this week ...
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Presidential traverse

A few years ago, Anna Mcloon and I hiked the Presidential Traverse (from north to south), and hit Mt. Washington in time to watch some of the runners crawl to the top in that mt. washington race. This ...
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More webroutes!

In 2009, this area of Italy held JWOC, and there was a massive thunderstorm in the middle of the race, leading to people getting pretty cold. Hopefully that wont happen in two weeks for WOC. But in s ...
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Sprinting in the City

The sprints at the World Championships in Italy will be urban, and we can surely expect twisty city streets and some challenging route choices. Many of the sprints in the US have more of a forest fee ...
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Where are we?

In France! Enjoy the small town of Claviers, outside of Nice. We tried some orienteering this morning, and it was the kind of map and terrain that would cause you to quit the sport if you had to do t ...
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Middle Minds (10 days to WOC!)

Hello there! A few weekends ago team members Cristina, Alex, Giacomo and I met up in Italy for some training races. Try the webroute from the middle, and check out the splitsand gps. Running it, ther ...
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Because sprints are fun! (11 days to WOC!)

In just over one week the first Americans will arrive in Italy for WOC. Those running the sprint will probably do some training in the city of Treviso, a city located just a hop, skip, and a jump fro ...
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Time for some middle fun (12 days to WOC!)

Want to prove that youre the best orienteer in the world? Win the middle distance at WOC.This year the middle final takes place in Campomulos karst terrain and promises to be rocky and technical. See ...
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Greylock trail race

Im racing the long distance final at the World Championships this summer, so I knew I need to get some long, tough, hilly races on my schedule to properly prepare. The Mt. Greylock trail race fit this ...
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Home

I was more tired than I thought coming home from Italy. I expected to be tired, but the first day or two I was on such a high from the trip, the racing, the post-analysis, that I thought I had the en ...
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3 Days of Trenches WRE

I went to Italy last weekend. Up to the Asiago area, in the high plateaus where they make good cheese and find tasty mushrooms and apparently have some pretty wonderful orienteering maps in their cra ...
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NH training weekend

I decided last winter that I wanted to have a training camp at Pawtuckaway some time before I left for Italy. And I wanted people to come to it, so we could have some good head-to-head competition and ...
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Newton 10k

Yesterday was the Newton 10k, a race with a startline that was a mere 1.6mi from my front door, which meant I could hardly miss this one. Ive run one 10k before, the Race with Grace, and that one wasn ...
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The Billygoat: Baldwin Hill edition

The 2014 Billygoat is in the books, and I retained my guardianship of the ugly Billygoat doorstop. This yours-for-a-year prize has been in rotation since 1999, according to the signatures on the back, ...
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7 Sisters trail race

I went and purchased a photo from Ben at Northeast Race Photo. Thanks Ben! Despite the rockiness underfoot, I managed to sneak in a peek at the view every now and then, and it was lovely. The stormy c ...
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Mason Dixon Classic

Last week, the Delaware Valley Orienteering Club (DVOA) held the U.S. relay championships, somewhere in the Mid-Atlantic. I ran through a few states while racing: Saturday took me from Maryland to Pen ...
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West Point A meet

Usually, the first big national-level orienteering race on the east coast is the West Point event. A meet is the outdated name for national-level orienteering events. Anyway, this year team trials was ...
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Tying shoelaces: the daisy chain

Have you ever had a shoe come untied mid-run, even after double knotting it? And then after running through mud and ice and snow and more mud, your laces are frozen into a massive glob of uselessness ...
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California

After Team Trials, Ed and I had a week to kill before two our favorite people married each other in Tahoe, so we decided to stay out in California and have an honest-to-god vacation, where we had noth ...
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Team Trials

This year, thanks to some interesting scheduling requirements, the ski orienteering championships were a week before the summer orienteering team trials. Team trials are not necessarily the US champs, ...
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US Ski Orienteering Champs

Theres been a lot going on lately, that Id like to blog about, but I think Ill just go sequentially and start with winter activities, since that happened before summer, which happened before spring - ...
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Tuesday night springtime racing

This last Tuesday was one of the first bonus races of the spring, though that all depends on how you count the costume race. The costume race was great, because not only were most people wearing costu ...
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Chasing spring

The last two weekends have been a bit of a blur. The weekend after the Birkie, I headed down to Connecticut with Anna and Anne, to visit Becky and get into the forests with hopefully less snow and do ...
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Tuesday night worlds

The last race that would count for the Tuesday night race series was this week, and I was sitting in third place after missing a whole bunch of races. Not like theres anything on the line aside from m ...
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Tenerife day 3

The weather on the third day, Wednesday, was supposed to be the sunniest, so we headed to the northern part of the island for some running and hiking. The first run started from Cruz del Carmen, whic ...
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