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Challenging Jukola in Finland 17th – 18th…

Last weekend Wing was running the Jukola relay in Finland. It was held near Salo, 120 km west of Helsinki. We had good runners at all legs, and had hoped to improve last years 47th place.Stig Alvestad gave us a perfect start at the first leg. He managed to break…
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away from all the other 1350 teams, and changed over alone in the lead, with 40 sec down to the next team. Stig, who was 5th in the Norwegian ultralong-distance champ 3 weeks ago, is in good shape and at this leg he showed that he has the capacity to fight with anyone in the forest. Unfortunately we lost time at the next leg, and I went out at the 3rd leg 20 min behind. I did an OK leg, and held the difference to the lead. The orienteering was challenging and the terrain partly very detailed.We also lost time…

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