Venla and Jukola
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Re: Venla and Jukola
I have video now. Looks very wet and very windy.
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Re: Venla and Jukola
Just seen on the screen a Russian team named "TeamLab" - seems particularly dodgy given the Russian form in doping recently...
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Re: Venla and Jukola
Big Jon wrote:Just seen on the screen a Russian team named "TeamLab" - seems particularly dodgy given the Russian form in doping recently...
..and another Russian one called "RunLab"
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Re: Venla and Jukola
DavidJ wrote:Big Jon wrote:Just seen on the screen a Russian team named "TeamLab" - seems particularly dodgy given the Russian form in doping recently...
..and another Russian one called "RunLab"
My mistake - it was RunLab I saw... too much red wine
PS live video has cut - seems to be a systemic problem as some others have messaged saying a black screen is all they can see. Is this too many viewers or is it the US coming online and hogging the bandwidth?
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Re: Venla and Jukola
It was very wet and windy, and the grey flat light was unchanging apart from a few hours of "night". Very unpleasant for spectating, even given the excitement of Hollie's team taking the Venla title, and an impressive EUOC team without "ringers" in 164th, just sneaking ahead of Ottawa and CSU and some pseudonymous Shuocs to become top English-speaking team.
Once you were in the forest, the trees were soaking but otherwise it was fine. Jukola also proved non-immune to mud-related carparking fiascos, as they needed tractors to pull all the cars (!) out of the field. Very long delays meant we had to hitchhike back to Helsinki with a kindly Finn in time for our flight.
Even so, anyone who think orienteering is not a real sport needs to look at Jukola.
We (INT) slithered out of the 300s, 400s, and into 500s on the later legs, in retrospect perhaps we should have selected Haines, Fraser, Cherry and Kostylev, but they did all manage to get a run elsewhere
Once you were in the forest, the trees were soaking but otherwise it was fine. Jukola also proved non-immune to mud-related carparking fiascos, as they needed tractors to pull all the cars (!) out of the field. Very long delays meant we had to hitchhike back to Helsinki with a kindly Finn in time for our flight.
Even so, anyone who think orienteering is not a real sport needs to look at Jukola.
We (INT) slithered out of the 300s, 400s, and into 500s on the later legs, in retrospect perhaps we should have selected Haines, Fraser, Cherry and Kostylev, but they did all manage to get a run elsewhere
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Re: Venla and Jukola
It was pretty hardcore weather-wise, definitely one of those where you think "and I PAID to be here?!" a few times.
But the orienteering was lovely, quite easy technically but mostly very runnable even in the rain.
Think I might take a little Jukola-break though...2020 will be in Rovaniemi (arctic circle) which sounds fun and I hope to have dried out by then.
But the orienteering was lovely, quite easy technically but mostly very runnable even in the rain.
Think I might take a little Jukola-break though...2020 will be in Rovaniemi (arctic circle) which sounds fun and I hope to have dried out by then.
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Re: Venla and Jukola
Jeremy Clarkson voice: One eyed orienteering, in the woods, in Finland, in the dark with 17,000 other competitors in the rain and the mud. Oh yes!
(First loss of a contact lens during a race. Battery also conked out but fortunately had a spare.)
Could get a taste for this! Roll on the Expendables 2!
(First loss of a contact lens during a race. Battery also conked out but fortunately had a spare.)
Could get a taste for this! Roll on the Expendables 2!
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Re: Venla and Jukola
afterthought wrote:I have video now. Looks very wet and very windy.
It certainly was. Not one to be travelling light to as I found out, but 2 euros soundly invested in giant bin bags saved the day. Our tent collapsed before we got there and the sides blew down more than once. My O kit got completely soaked - putting that on at 02:00 in the morning is not something I am keen to repeat!
Bit of a nasty incident on the trek from the car park to the event centre must have happened 10-15min before we got there. Several people in the procession hit by a falling tree, with 2 bloodied and semi conscious people still on the ground when we passed - 1 impaled by branches. Fortunately quite near a forest road and an ambulance just arriving as we passed. Never found out how they got on but one of them looked pretty serious.
Orienteering - its no walk in the park
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