Jukola/Venla

[frog]

Hollie's climbing up at each checkpoint, excellent. Guess the rest of you are doing something more exciting than my sanding and sorting out the compost heap!

[frog]

I see Sarah Rollins is having a good run as well. Shame our elites can't all run for British teams.

[Gross]

A quick look.... will Sarah R catch Tess H by the end?

[frog]

No, but an excellent finish by Hollie. Hurray. Should go and do some boring jobs now.

[Spookster]

Venla results, GBR teams:

83) Scotland GBR 3:57:44 (Jessica Halliday 56:20, Jessica Orr 41:20, Hazel Wright 1:04:13, Hollie Orr 1:15:50)
125) South Yorkshire GBR 4:08:05 (Grace Elson 50:14, Heather Gardener 46:50, Laura Daniel 1:12:26, Jenny Johnson 1:18:34)
249) Scotland 2 GBR 4:40:54 (Joanna Halliday 56:42, Kirstin Maxwell 46:00, Catherine Taylor 1:27:36, Rebecca Harding 1:30:35)
277) Scotland 3 GBR 4:48:01 (Alice Leake 59:38, Chloe Haines 42:32, Joanna Shepherd 1:15:58, 1:49:51)
297) South Yorkshire 2 GBR 4:50:40 (Lizzie Ingham 44:37, Lesley Ward 57:03, Hilary Bloor 1:42:38, Clare Baker 1:26:20)
513) South London Orienteers GBR 5:38:07 (Leakey Diane 1:02:28, Sales Jayne 1:09:29, Schofield Libby 1:26:52, Whaley Vicky 1:59:17)
560) Forth Valley Orienteers GBR 5:47:15 (Liz Cross 1:12:09, Heather Walton 1:10:20, Pauline Sinclair 2:01:03, Fiona Berrow 1:23:42)
893) London Ladies GBR 7:15:25 (Alison Saunders 1:12:53, Amanda Heikkinen 1:23:50, Paula Hakulinen 2:00:21, Karen French 2:38:20)

[Spookster]

SYO teams in the mens race:

1110 South Yorkshire 1
1 Jamie Stevenson
2 Matthew Crane
3 Oliver Johnson
4 Neil Northrop
5 Ralph Street
6 Robert Baker
7 Graham Gristwood

1275 South Yorkshire 2
1 John Rocke
2 Kris Jones
3 Chris Smithard
4 Tim Tett
5 Charlie Adams
6 Dave Abrams
7 Richard Guillaume

1273 South Yorkshire 3
1 Alex Rothman
2 Martin Ward
3 Todd Oates
4 Dave Harrison
5 Ben Carter
6 Forrest Mann
7 Tom Beasant

It's now pissing it down in the assembly, but apparently it's forecast to stop about midnight

Race starts at 2255 local time, 2055 BST.

[frog]

Do the blokes who are late on in the relay get to sleep somewhere? What time is it expected to finish? Hope you enjoyed your run.

[mikey]

That start looks amazing on TV.

[mikey]

It looks blooming wet (but still wish I was there).

[Becks]

First leg looking good for SYO, top 50!

[AndyO]

Defending champs (KOK) DQ'd on first leg!

[frog]

How do you see it on TV?

[Becks]

http://areena.yle.fi/player/index.php?s ... anguage=fi

That should work!

[frog]

Scotland are not far behind them.

[frog]

Thanks, it does look a bit "follow the leader". Just had a guy stopping for a long peer at his map, obviously got dropped.