Jukola 2013 this weekend

[Drdr]

Looks like it will be a busy weekend on the internet - Venla tomorrow afternoon and then Jukola overnight and Sunday morning. Details at:

http://news.worldofo.com/2013/06/14/juk ... d-to-know/

[gaw]

Who to look out for?
It's easy to spot the GB club teams in the start list - sort by flag - but not other GB runners.
In the Venla seen so far:
63 Charlotte OK Ravinen leg 1
33 Rachael Rothman, Lidingo leg 1
36 Hilary Palmer, Lillomarka OL1 leg 3
99 Jessica Orr, Konnerud IL 2

Any more?
Anyone got a good idea of which GB runners are in Jukola?

[Nottinghamshire outlaw]

Ha! Ha! Not sure Lillomarka would want me in their first team - just a bit old and slow!!

However.... Helen is running 3rd leg

[Spookster]

Here are some of the Brits in Jukola, plus the four British teams.

Mark Nixon, SNO2, Leg 1
Graham Gristwood, SNO2, Leg 6
Ralph Street SNO2, Leg 7
Kris Jones, Lillomarka 1, Leg 1
Duncan Coombs, IL Tyrving 2, Leg 7
Jonny Crickmore, OK Ravinen 1, Leg 1
Nick Barrable, OK Ravinen 2, Leg 3

241 Scotland 1
1 Murray Strain
2 Ewan McCarthy
3 James Tullie
4 Jon Musgrave
5 Andrew Lindsay
6 Ruairi Short
7 Hector Haines

311 Bristol OK 1
1 Mark Bown
2 Keith Agmen
3 Alex Rothman
4 Nic Barber
5 Mark Saunders
6 James Hargreaves
7 Ben Maliphant

445 NOPE Team Banter 1
1 Steven Clelland
2 Kyle Heron
3 Jorma Jormalainen
4 Jonny Gallier
5 Stewart Caithness
6 Tupac Shakur
7 Ed Nicholas

1108 London Lords 1
1 David Saunders
2 John McCullough
3 Colm OHalloran
4 Julie Cleary
5 Alison Saunders
6 Ronan Cleary
7 Mark Adams

[gaw]

Ha! Ha! Not sure Lillomarka would want me in their first team - just a bit old and slow!!

However.... Helen is running 3rd leg

Ah, yes, sorry Hilary

[Olsoran]

A few more
Doug Tullie,Turun Metsänkävijät 1, Leg 3
Ali McLeod, Lillomarka OL 2, Leg 7
Will Gardner, OK Ravinen 2, Leg 7

[JK]

Donald McCarthy, Ärla IF 2, leg 3

Sarah-Jane Gaffney should be running for OK Ravinen

I'll be keeping an extra eye on a special challenge between Trail-O (AKA PreO) SWE vs Trail-O FIN:
1425 TrailO Team Finland 1
585 TrailO Team Sweden 1

[andy]

didn't know Tupac had been reincarnated as an elite orienteer.

[ER]

And the British women's teams in Venla

267 Bristol OK 1

1 Rebecca Harding
2 Anwen Darlington
3 Emily Wood
4 Hanne Kinnunen


195 Scotland 1

1 Hollie Orr
2 Jessica Tullie
3 Kirstin Maxwell
4 Jo Shepherd

Good luck and enjoy- I will be watching the TV for you. always feel a bit wistful when Jukola comes around as tends to mark the start of the return of the sun to the southern hemisphere

[andypat]

didn't know Tupac had been reincarnated as an elite orienteer.

Nah - if he was that elite he'd be running the anchor leg...

[afterthought]

Team 7 OK Linne 1 has Catherine Taylor on Leg 1. Good chance they will pan a TV camera along the front row at the start (which is midday our time.) Cat could well be right up there for the whole leg - good luck to her.

Look out also for Riina Kuuselo, leg 1 for team 41, Tampereen Pyrintö 1.

[Jethro]

Live TV starts 11.45am UK time
Venla start 12 noon
Jukola start 9pm - winner expected 4.30am

[Supersaint82]

Richard Robinson also in OK Ravinen 1 on leg 5.

[Ravinous]

Greetings from the Jukola Media tent.
Its bit blustery here - which is always helpful to keep the mosquitoes down. The odd break in the greyish clouds give some sunshine but the sky looks like rain showers would be no surprise. Probably about 16 degrees. I can see a team of 20 or so checking the maps.
Black and red seem to be the colours this year - baseball caps and jackets adorn the many officials.
As usual, the Finnish army are here showing of a fine array of equipment (some you can climb in/on/over! and at 1230 Finnish time we get a performance from......
The Conscript Band of the Finnish Defence Forces - so I am on the edge of my fold up chair in anticipation as that is only 30 minutes away.
Cat Taylor will surely be out to prove her worth after disqualifying her team in TioMila. Although they have not trusted her to run last leg again it would seem, as noted above she is off first. OK Linne have never won Jukola before.
Riina Kuuselo however and Tampereen Pyrinto have twice - the club leads the overall winners table with 4 wins over the years and 26 x places 1st - 15th!!

[ER]

Scotland women flying their flag; brilliant run from Hollie in 19th and Jess out now.