Jukola

[Big Jon]

The Men's and Women's Short classes need binning at the British and JK Relays. The main Open/Premier classes are now so short, they are pointless. The winning times are more like a Sprint Relay - 21 & 20 minutes for the leaders at BRC, which is closer to a Sprint than a Middle WT. I expect 15 years ago the Short had the same winning times as the Open/Premier has now - with all the dumming down that has happened on Open relay courses. There are not the numbers to support both classes anymore so amalgamate! Use the old 'Short' trophies as a 'club in the top 3 which has not been in the top 3 for the last 5 years' trophy or similar. Or a handicapped trophy or for the best 35s class. This is particularly necessary for the main women's class to stay competitive.

The vast majority of Jukola runners are not elite - they are juniors, oldies (and indeed non-orienteers who enter as a works team). There are far too many classes at British Relays - everyone up to and including 60's could and should be running the open class.

[harry]

Did any clubs get all inspired by Jukola and want to run Nighthawk?
Norway's big relay! It is going to be totally awesome.

The Men's class has 4 night legs and 4 day. It's allowed and many teams double up legs so you only need 4 runners if everyone's up for running a night and a day leg or can take in easy with a full 8 or some combination of the keen and the lazy.

In the women's it's 3+3 with the same principle 3-6 runners per team.

Great arena, epic terrain, big maps, messy afterparty and possible to get around by Oslos fabulous public transport system so you can stay anywhere in the City that suits your budget and get to the races no problemo.

50% discount in entry fees for teams from outside the Nordic region.

Be there! Espesh the big relay kings: NOPE team banter 1