Tiomila
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Re: Tiomila
Apparently the TuMe last leg runner was held for 20 mins so that he wouldn't interfere with the top 10 teams - they were lying about 10th at the time.
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Re: Tiomila
Wow, very close margins in both the damkavlen and the TioMila.
Hardly a stride in it at Tio after ten and a half hours.
https://eventor.orientering.se/Events/ResultList?eventId=8003&groupBy=EventClass
Wow looking at the GPS. Even if it is said to be much less technical because of all the paths.
http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/2016051410milaH4/?v=m3
EDITED paragraph
And wow the live TV including a good chunk from the running cameraman
(with thanks to Mharky for link (two posts below)).
Very exciting last few minutes, go to 20:24:30 - in the 23 hours of coverage at
http://livestream.com/accounts/17629489/events/5319716/player.)
In Tio the winners Södertälje-Nykvarn (SNO) are hardly outsiders, but it is the second year in succession a less fancied (and Swedish) club has come in ahead of the well-known teams from Norway (Halden) and Finland (Kalevan Rasti).
One of the main thoughts I had from the weekend was that whilst the teams in contention are predictable, the actual finishing order seems to be much less so.
You do need a star on the last leg, and you need the rest of the team to run well, but the victory does not necessarily go to the teams with the best known and most highly rated individuals.
In that sense at least it is arguably more interesting than the big individual classic races e.g. WOC Men's same 1-2-3 in 2015 and 2016. (And team names can build up a loyal following, as we particularly know from football.)
I wonder how much is this down to the format and culture of TioMila?
Rather like the Tour de France it gets tweaked each year, and the different terrain makes a difference, but a lot of good ideas seem to have been settled on, and it seems to be like the London Marathon in status and interest.
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It is tough for teams that didn't have a good time (that's sport as they say) and this year this includes:
Turun Metsänkävijät (TuMe, Doug's team), a quite unfortunate missed control on leg 2, but can understand that the organisers don't want a non-counting good runner out at the same time as teams competing for the honour of the top 10. And sorry for Halden, a dislocated shoulder for Olav Lundanes when in the lead (just) is very bad luck.
(edit: video link updated)
Hardly a stride in it at Tio after ten and a half hours.
https://eventor.orientering.se/Events/ResultList?eventId=8003&groupBy=EventClass
Wow looking at the GPS. Even if it is said to be much less technical because of all the paths.
http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/2016051410milaH4/?v=m3
EDITED paragraph
And wow the live TV including a good chunk from the running cameraman
(with thanks to Mharky for link (two posts below)).
Very exciting last few minutes, go to 20:24:30 - in the 23 hours of coverage at
http://livestream.com/accounts/17629489/events/5319716/player.)
In Tio the winners Södertälje-Nykvarn (SNO) are hardly outsiders, but it is the second year in succession a less fancied (and Swedish) club has come in ahead of the well-known teams from Norway (Halden) and Finland (Kalevan Rasti).
One of the main thoughts I had from the weekend was that whilst the teams in contention are predictable, the actual finishing order seems to be much less so.
You do need a star on the last leg, and you need the rest of the team to run well, but the victory does not necessarily go to the teams with the best known and most highly rated individuals.
In that sense at least it is arguably more interesting than the big individual classic races e.g. WOC Men's same 1-2-3 in 2015 and 2016. (And team names can build up a loyal following, as we particularly know from football.)
I wonder how much is this down to the format and culture of TioMila?
Rather like the Tour de France it gets tweaked each year, and the different terrain makes a difference, but a lot of good ideas seem to have been settled on, and it seems to be like the London Marathon in status and interest.
****
It is tough for teams that didn't have a good time (that's sport as they say) and this year this includes:
Turun Metsänkävijät (TuMe, Doug's team), a quite unfortunate missed control on leg 2, but can understand that the organisers don't want a non-counting good runner out at the same time as teams competing for the honour of the top 10. And sorry for Halden, a dislocated shoulder for Olav Lundanes when in the lead (just) is very bad luck.
(edit: video link updated)
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Re: Tiomila
From a runner's perspective, the reason it's so cool is because it's all about the team. You run together, you eat together, you share a tent together. It's all about that whispered "time to get up" - "how are we doing" - "all good so far" conversation at half past two in morning, a feeling you can't replicate so easily.
At least it is for the common runner like me, although I'm guessing many of these emotions are still the same for the top teams.
And because so many of us actually have participated at some point, we can relate more easily to watching Jukola or Tio than WOC where the standard is obviously very good but harder to relate to.
At least it is for the common runner like me, although I'm guessing many of these emotions are still the same for the top teams.
And because so many of us actually have participated at some point, we can relate more easily to watching Jukola or Tio than WOC where the standard is obviously very good but harder to relate to.
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Re: Tiomila
FULL TV REPLAY: http://livestream.com/accounts/17629489 ... 716/player
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Re: Tiomila
Just a bit more manageable than the full coverage in one piece, segments of the TV broadcast are beginning to appear on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tcla5I4KWo has the start of the Women's relay at time 1:09:00, with the camera introducing the front line of runners one at a time - you may well know number 501, looking splendid in her Domnarvets colours.
I might have mentioned this in the nearby thread on club kit. It seems to me to show smart club kit off well, and that it must be a good thing for the wellbeing of the sport. Even if a few folk are not keen personally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tcla5I4KWo has the start of the Women's relay at time 1:09:00, with the camera introducing the front line of runners one at a time - you may well know number 501, looking splendid in her Domnarvets colours.
I might have mentioned this in the nearby thread on club kit. It seems to me to show smart club kit off well, and that it must be a good thing for the wellbeing of the sport. Even if a few folk are not keen personally.
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