Tio Mila

[jarkko_01]

GG's team (Lidingö) are in contention..

[mharky]

come on VeVe!!!

[rocky]

halden got some work to do... I'm gonna leave them to it and catch up in the morning.

[Adrian]

Can't get the TV plugin to work.

I already had an incentive to go to bed - I've got to put out controls early in the morning!

Also, I can't see the point of having 40 controls on the long leg. The guys are just following each other round.

[Domhnull Mor]

Looked like IFK Göteborg were in with a chance but that man Daniel Hubmann puts on a spurt and hauls some... Have to see if Mats H manages to get back in touch again or gets caught by the following pack. Looks like it's more likely that he gets caught at the moment.

[Domhnull Mor]

1st Kristiansand
2nd Kalevan Rasti (Terro shows his class again!)
3rd OK Linné
4th Vehkalahden Veikot
5th IFK Göteborg

Got to feel for Södertälje Nykvarns final leg runner. Hauls the team into what he thinks is 6th place only to find that the 9th leg runner hopped over a control. Bummer...

[Domhnull Mor]

Jamie loses out to Emil Wingstedt in a sprint finish for 6th and 7th places for Halden and PAN-Kristianstad

[mharky]

I bloody love the TioMila!!!

Very interesting to see that the winning break formed on leg 2. Good effort by IFK Göteborg, adrift after 2nd leg but then post 2 fastest times in a row to come back in the leading pack after long night. It was pretty obvious that if you weren't in that group you werent going to come back. Halden had a go, but the gap was just too big, there are a lot of teams which are stacked all the way through now compared to 5 or 10 years ago, this makes for much better racing. Mainly to do with the influx of continentals. Of the first 40 runners back on last leg, 23 were non-Scandi.

[mharky]

12 Norwegian victories in the last 13 years...

[gg]

GG's team (Lidingö) are in contention..

until GG's lamp goes out at the second control......

[harry]

Commiserations on the lamp failure but well done in the Eliteserien Sprint GG - in case noone's drawn attention to this result elsewhere - GG finished in amongst some WOC Sprint medallists:-
Herrer 3100 m
1. Andrey Khramov Hiisirasti 14:27
2. Emil Wingstedt Halden SK 14:33
3. Henrik Löfås OK Linné 14:38
4. Graham Gristwood IFK Lidingö 14:45
5. Martin Johansson IFK Moras OK 14:48
5. Mikkel Lund Bäkkelagets SK 14:48

Also well done pyrat who got a last minute call up to anchor the Wing 1st team which had taken it's usual front loading policy to new extremes this year after losing 3 or 4 runners to illness. Ally safely anchored the Wing team (which included a 16 year old and our ~45 year old team manager) into the top 100. He said 16,3km in daylight in Skånsk terrain felt a bit ordinary after previously running the long night and 2nd leg.

[Pippa]

For all those that missed it. The entertainment moment of the weekend tool place at 9am Sunday morning. The organisers let loose the mass re-start (for all remaining runners) from the changover boards just as ~6 teams were battling down the run-in on last leg for a top 60 place. They got completely swamped as the 300+ outgoing runners swarmed down all the run-in lanes. Quality. And I can vouch that those mass starts are a little terrifying even when you're going in the same directoin as most runners...

btw, Rach got moved up to Lidingo's first team (yeah, confused me too), and was on a good third leg battle in the group with Jo Stevenson running for SNO's 1st team. Both of them got on the podium - great to see the sprinkling of brits holding their own.

Pippa

[harry]

And Pip came in about 12th on 1st leg for Majorna 1.
Helen Bridle ran the 4th leg for that team & also ran well.

[SJ]

The organisers let loose the mass re-start (for all remaining runners) from the changover boards just as ~6 teams were battling down the run-in on last leg for a top 60 place

I was in that mass start (running most of a men's leg before I had to shortcut to get my club bus) and not even aware of anyone trying to come the opposite way...too busy trying not to get squished myself, it was pretty manic! Everyone who was small enough crawled under the map boards to get their map and the others ran round, it was a heaving mass and half of them were already discussing the way to the first control, which was basically only a decision for the first few anyway.

I was surprised how little gaffling there was on the last leg of the women's race (3 gaffles) but perhaps they didn't feel more were necessary given the spread of people.

My first Tio Mila, it was great, highly recommended.

[Kitch]

What's the history to it?

Why are they rich?

last time I went to Tio Mila I ran for a Danish club.
The Danes were celebrating the 50th aniversay of the liberation from Nazi occupation
The Swedes were celebrating the 50th anniversary of Tio Mila.