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03.07: World of O

EYOC 2009: Live results from 10:00 CET

The European Youth Championships starts with the long distance today at 10:00 CET in Kopaonik, Croa...
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03.07: World of O

Be part of the action: Set up your JWOC Team!

World of O Fantasy JWOC will give you another reason to follow the JWOC competitions the coming wee...
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03.07: Daniel Hubmann

WM-Testlufe: Sprintkarten

Mit zwei Siegen bei den ersten beiden Sprints gelang mir ein optimaler Auftakt zu den WM-Testl&a...
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03.07.2009 - News from USA

What ever happened to Doug Hollowell?

When I started orienteering, Doug Hollowell won everything in our age group. He won the US Champs in M19-20 in 1982 and 1983. He won the US Champs i ...
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01.07.2009 - News from USA

A quick note on event quality

Several discussions are going on at Attackpoint about event quality. Apparently there were a few problems with an A-meet last weekend, some of which ...
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Latest videos - from YouTube tagged orienteering
30.06.2009 - News from USA

Fieldchecking video

You dont see orienteering mappers in action very often. I came across this video of Perola Olsson mapping in Taiwan.Street boatI looked up from my de ...
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24.06.2009 - News from USA

"Signature Significance"

Signature Significance is the term I [Bill James] use for small-sample events so extraordinary that it is essentially impossible for them to happen to ...
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23.06.2009 - News from USA

Learning something new

Neil Dobbs wrote in a discussion at Attackpoint:In most long/classic races, one spends a fair amount of time not actually reading the map or making de ...
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21.06.2009 - News from USA

Yesterday's second sprint course

This is the sprint course from the second race yesterday. I didnt run the race. I made the map (which is still in progress) and set the course.The c ...
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20.06.2009 - News from USA

Sprint race this morning

My map and track from this mornings first sprint race. I dont know what was going on on the second half of the 6th leg. I obviously slowed down. Th ...
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18.06.2009 - News from USA

Running in the terrain

Baekkelagets Sportklubb (a Norwegian orienteering club) has a terrain running test. You can check out the course by looking at the PDF of the map tha ...
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15.06.2009 - News from USA

A little thought experiment

It is quite easy to measure running ability. Just put someone on a track and time them. It isnt perfect. Running on a track isnt quite the same as ...
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14.06.2009 - News from USA

Looking at some GPS tracks from Jukola

I spent a few minutes studying GPS tracks from Jukola. It feels like following the race live...without the actual drama, of course, since you know ho ...
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13.06.2009 - News from USA

Long trip from the last control

Im watching Jukola on the web. Damien Renard just took about 3 minutes to go from last control, to the finish punch, to the map board, and then to th ...
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12.06.2009 - News from USA

Practicing not skipping controls

One of my sprint orienteering tips is to practice not skipping controls (which is remarkably common in sprint races).A respondent brought up a good qu ...
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11.06.2009 - News from USA

Breakfast at McDonald's

It is always fun to read about a Norwegian orienteers experiences and thoughts about orienteering in the U.S. If you can manage Norwegian, check out ...
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08.06.2009 - News from USA

Some thoughts on land access issues

Land access issues have come up in a couple of recent Attackpoint discussions. A park in Kentucky and state parks in California have been considered ...
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07.06.2009 - News from USA

A Lidar contour comparison

I found this comparison of different basemap contours on the Chatahoochee Bend Mapping Project web page. The image shows three sources for contours: ...
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06.06.2009 - News from USA

Donwtown map update

I did a bit of fieldchecking on the downtown sprint map today. Most of todays work was putting in the individual trees in the west half of South Park ...
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02.06.2009 - News from USA

Patrick looking at the map

The video shows Patrick G on a sprint course at a training camp. Take a look and try to count how many times he looks at his map. It is a bit tric ...
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01.06.2009 - News from USA

7 Signs of ...

Watching some TV yesterday I saw an announcement that included:The first sign is someone...drawing diagrams or annotating on maps,...MAY be an indicat ...
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31.05.2009 - News from USA

Cool Orienteering Mapping Blog

Rudi left a comment yesterday and that inspired me to take a look at his orienteering mapping blog orimaps.blogspot.com It is worth a look.The first ...
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30.05.2009 - News from USA

Crazy idea of the day

What about having races where the organizers dont reveal the map scale in advance and dont use a normal scale? Instead of knowing, for example, that ...
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Canada WOC team ages - 2009

Since I looked at the US WOC team ages, I figured Id do the same for Canada.Canadas WOC team averages 30.4 years old. The median is 29.But, there is ...
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29.05.2009 - News from USA

WOC Team - Who's Running What

We had the team settled, and now we\ve got the details!Team coach Mike Waddington and WOC team leader Tom Hollowell have announced who\s running what ...
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28.05.2009 - News from USA

Swiss training

Some good stuff over at OPN.NO from Thomas Buhrer on how the Swiss national team trains. If you cant read Norwegian, here is one quote that struck me ...
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27.05.2009 - News from USA

Training Camp Update: Canadian Rockies

Last week, US team member Kat Orekhova flew to Calgary to join the Canadians for a week-long training camp. Here is her day-by-day account, complete ...
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26.05.2009 - News from USA

Thinking about rules

Here are three general things I think about when Im thinking about rules:1. In general, fewer rules is better than more.2. It can be useful to think ...
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25.05.2009 - News from USA

Why not require GPS watches?

Worldofo.com has a report about the IOFs decision to prohibit GPS watches at certain races (WREs, World Cups, and World Champs). I dont like the new ...
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24.05.2009 - News from USA

QR from yesterday's sprint

Not much to say about the sprint race yesterday.Back to okansas.blogspot.com.
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23.05.2009 - News from USA

A-Meet Update: Buffalo Orienteering Festival

Nate Lyons (ROC) sprinting into 2nd place Here comes the latest update, this one from last weekend\s Buffalo Orienteering Festival. This week\s gue ...
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07.05.2009 - News from USA

A-Meet Update: Return to Boggs Mountain and US Team Trials

The 2oo9 US WOC Team and alternatesThis past weekend was the US team trials in Santa Rosa and Cobb, CA. There were about 24 men and 10 women signed u ...
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06.05.2009 - News from USA

2009 WOC Team

Team USA is proud to announce the final standings from the 2009 Team Trials (top 5 make the team for the World Champs in Hungary)1. Samantha Saeger, ...
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US WOC Team

Last weekend the US WOC team was selected. I was not able to go to the trials, but I was selected through a petition process. Here is our team:1. Sama ...
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28.04.2009 - News from USA

A-Meet Update: CSU

Larry & Sara Mae BermanCambridge Sports Union is one of America\s oldest orienteering clubs, founded by Larry and Sara Mae Berman in Cambridge, M ...
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24.04.2009 - News from USA

A-Meet Update: West Point

Samantha Saeger at the sprintThe most recent A-Meet on the US orienteering calendar was the West Point A-Meet, organized annually for thirty years no ...
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20.04.2009 - News from USA

Americans at Tiomila

Tiomila is Sweden\s biggest relay, normally organized around Stockholm in the end of April. This year was the first time the relay was held far away ...
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14.04.2009 - News from USA

Trimtex uniforms

This winter, Team USA signed up with Trimtex as its sponsor and uniform supplier, and today the brand new 2009 uniforms have arrived. Here are some p ...
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2009 US JWOC Team Announced

Girls TeamTori Borish COCHolly Kuestner COCAlison Campbell DVOAKelsey Breseman COCAnna Shafer-Skelton SLOCBoys TeamGreg Ahlswede DVOAGabriel Svobodn ...
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10.04.2009 - News from USA

A-Meet Update: The Flying Pig

DVOA, US Relay Champions 2009The Flying Pig is a long-running and well-respec ...
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02.04.2009 - News from USA

A-Meet Update: Ran-it Granite

In addition to introducing you to members of the US Orienteering Team through interviews and profiles, we are now starting a new series dedicated to ...
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27.03.2009 - News from USA

A new coach!

After an intense search, Team USA has a new coach! Canadian Mike Waddington, one of the best North American orienteers of all time, has been hired as ...
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25.03.2009 - News from USA

Team USA Profiles: Hillary Saeger

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14.03.2009 - News from USA

Team USA Profiles: Clem McGrath

This week we have the pleasure to present Clem McGrath, who has represented the United States at the past three WOCs.1) What\s your name?As the first ...
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27.02.2009 - News from USA

Team USA Profiles: Alison Crocker

Time for another profile! This time we get to present an athlete who has had great success at a high level in other sports before switching to orient ...
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13.02.2009 - News from USA

Team USA Profiles: Ross Smith

As the hush of winter covers most of North America, and the spring orienteering season is still only on the horizon, we will be running a somewhat-re ...
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06.02.2009 - News from USA

Team Trials Info

Want to represent the US at WOC? Information about the 2009 Team Trials is now up to date and available here:US Orienteering Team Trials for WOC 2009 ...
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24.01.2009 - News from USA

US Team Coach Needed!

The US Senior Team is searching for a coach to guide the Senior Team. Here is a brief outline of the Job Description:• Organize training events.• ...
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29.12.2008 - News from USA

2009 Standing Team Announced

The Standing Team Committee (Don Davis, Kristin Hall and Vladimir Gusiatnikov) has selected the following orienteers for the 2009 Standing Team (Foot ...
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21.12.2008 - News from USA

Building a house!

Marc and I build a house together today :-)Merry Christmas Everyone!C U in 2009
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05.11.2008 - News from USA

A good day!

NewsWorld newsUS elections 2008 Barack Obama to be Americas first black presidentJohn McCain praises rival in concession speech as record numbers tur ...
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31.10.2008 - News from USA

Training in Hungary

Last week Boris, Sandra, and Kat went to Hungary for several days to train and race in relevant terrain for WOC 2009. It sounds like a great time, an ...
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30.10.2008 - News from USA

Training camp in Hungary

I feel really lucky that I had the opportunity to go to the training camp in Hungary for next years WOC. Here is why:-very well organized camp (super ...
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