Tio Mila LIVE (4th leg and long night)

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Here we start with reports for the 4th leg and the 5th leg (long night)...

-- Mook (mook@mook.com), April 26, 2003

Answers

Magnus is out on the Long Night right now. He went out in 185th place. He was in a pack of about 7-10 runners all within a bit over a minute.

Magnus is probably in good shape for the distance, but maybe not the speed. He's training for a big adventure race and recently ran a 60K race. Being in a small pack ought to help keep the pace high and Magnus is strong. He's got a decent shot to move up a few places, I'd say.

Magnus went out about 5 p.m. CDT (right around midnight in Sweden).

-- Michael (meglin@juno.com), April 26, 2003.


Let's review results from the end of the 3rd leg... 1) IKHP 2) Kangasala SK 3) PAN-Kristianstad 4) Suunta 101 5) SON 6) TuMet 7) Kristiansand OK 8-8) Lynx/Nydalens 10) OK Skogsfalken

-- Mook (mook@mook.com), April 26, 2003.

17 clubs made up the first group. Halden leads the second group which was a few minutes back at the exchange.

-- Mook (mook@mook.com), April 26, 2003.

From now on, look for Halden to move up to the lead and stay there. I just can't see them having trouble the rest of the way (looking at who is left on their team). But, it is a very long race and there is a lot of time to go...and strange things happen at Tio Mila. Check out, for example, Bjornar Valstad's race from 1992 where he boomed 18 minutes (http://www.staff- valstad.com/treningssider/tiomila/tio1992.jpg)

-- Michael (megliN@juno.com), April 26, 2003.

And to see the terrain for this year's Tio Mila, look at the old map here: http://212.105.99.102/ol/elit/tiomila2003.jpg

First report on the fourth leg (at the fourth control) should come in a few minutes.

-- Michael (meglin@Juno.com), April 26, 2003.



4th control on the 4th leg....IKHP in the lead and alone!

1:45 behind is a group of maybe 7 or 8 teams chasing IKHP. Then another gap...

And some news from the women's race...Hanne Staff got sick and didn't run. This moved Sandy Hott Johanssen (who is a Canadian) into the first team for Bekkelaget. Sandy apparently ran quite well, runnign even with the lead teams. But, BSK was already ten minutes behind.

-- Michael (meglin@juno.coM), April 26, 2003.


I poked around some other web pages and learned that a number of teams are having to rearrange because of runners with colds. BSK's women lost Hanne Staff. IF Thor 2 lost three runners. BSK loses one man. Kristianstad's OK won't have their star, Jorgen Rostrup, who has a cold. There are rumors that Halden and NTNUI have sickness, too.

And they just interviewed the Linkoping runner who had a lead of about 30 seconds late in the third leg, but then came in about 4 minutes after.

"I went down a hillside and came to the wrong control on a forked control. I didn't know where I was and instead of taking a chance, I went to a road and relocated, then came back. I also had some small booms near the end.

I know from before that it is easy to lose a lot of time by just wandering around, better to stay calm and relocate."

-- Michael (meglin@Juno.com), April 26, 2003.


I'm not listening so carefully, but I think Per Oberg (OK Haellen) is now in the lead by about 1:20-1:40, with a group chasing. Halden, Pan-Kristianstad are chasing and there is a group with them. There are about 2.4 km to the change for the next leg...The Long Night.

-- Michael (meglin@juno.coM), April 26, 2003.

The Long Night is 16.8 km with no forking.

-- Michael (meglin@Juno.com), April 26, 2003.

Near the end of the 4th leg, two of the top teams -- IKHP and SNO -- are more than 5:30 behind. IKHP came by, but SNO is still missing (Micke Whelin). What happened?

-- Michael (meglin@Juno.com), April 26, 2003.


I'm ready to follow The Long Night. Take a look:

http://uokh.netfirms.com/longnight.jpg

-- Michael (meglin@Juno.com), April 26, 2003.


Per Oberg in the lead at the last control on the 4th leg. Per Oberg is in the lead with BSK, Halden, Lidingo, Orion, KSK. Bekkelaget won the sprint and changed in the lead.

A junior ran for BSK.

My old club-mate Casper Giding ran an outstanding leg for Lidingo.

-- Michael (meglin@Juno.com), April 26, 2003.


Christian Boen ran for BSK and took the lead on the fourth leg. Here is a bit of what he had to say.

"When I heard I was in the lead there was no one who was going to stop me from being in the lead. It went really well, I felt very strong. It was a lot of fun. In the beginning there were a lot of trails. But, it was really perfect."

Christian said that they had to take Bernt Bjornsgard out because he's sick, but they've got Holget Hott Johansen and Bjornar Valstad, so they've got a good team.

And now to the end of the 4th leg, SNO and IKHP are coming in about 5+ after.

-- Michael (meglin@Juno.com), April 26, 2003.


There was a lot of turnover in the standings after the 4th leg. It looks like at least IKHP and SNO boomed quite badly. Baekk- came in the lead after a run by the junior Christian Bøen. Another young runner Per Öberg brought Haellen into 2nd while IFK Linkoping was 3rd. A lot of the top teams are still well back by this point. Besides IKHP, Leksands, DELTA, Halden, and Malungs are still a ways from the front. There aren't too many norwegian teams near the lead right now.

I think Turun Met. is out with some kind of DQ.

The long night is coming and things could bunch back together pretty soon. This race will take more shape in the 6th and 7th legs.

-- Mook (mook@mook.com), April 26, 2003.


A nice split has opened up between around 27-31st place. Maybe there will be two nice groups running the long night leg. A lot of big-name teams still haven't been posted in the top 92 places after the 4th leg. There may be some really big booms out there. Turun Met is still in the race. They were "ej fullf" for a while. I guess they got things sorted out.

-- Mook (mook@mook.com), April 26, 2003.


The first radio on the Long Night is the 2nd control. A big group -- maybe 12 runners -- came through together. Halden is in the group. If I heard right, a couple of teams, TuSu among them, went out several minutes back and quickly ran down the lead pack.

IHKP and SNO come through the 2nd control 6:45 behind.

The 3rd control is the end of a long leg. The control is a knoll foot on the far east edge of the map.

A group of maybe 8-10 runners are together with Orion punching first. Halden is there, too. As is Lidingo. Malung and another runner are a bit over a minute behind at 3 and make a small boom at the control.

-- Michael (meglin@Juno.com), April 26, 2003.


I'm taking a bit of a break. I've been sitting at my computer too long and my chair isn't the most comfortable. So, I'm going to go sit in the living room. I'll keep listening and posting updates. But, the updates will be every 15-20 minutes or so for a while.

Mook is out running and expects to be back in a couple of hours (he's running at the same time as Magnus runs The Long Night).

-- Michael (meglin@Juno.com), April 26, 2003.


At the 7th control the pack is just over 20 runners moving at a pace of 5:50/km. Fast. The group includes: IFK Goteborg, Lidingo, Halden, Pan-K, Kristiansand, Leksand, VBOL, BSK, Skogsfalken, Nydalen, Denseln, TuSu, Hallen, KR.

IKHP is running even with the lead, but is still a bit behind. SNO hasn't been seen yet.

-- Michael (meglin@junO.com), April 26, 2003.


At the 9th control ther pack seemed to be together. But, they all made a small boom at the control. Not much, but they stopped and missed a few seconds.

The route to ten is about 1.5 km through green areas, old felled forest and marshes.

IKHP and a smaller group are about 6:20 behind at 9.

The next report is at 12. The control is on top of a knoll and the leg from 11 is short. The leg is to set up a good route choice for 13. The commentators picked a left route as their choice.

A big group goes through with Janne Salmi leading. The missing team is now Lidingo.

Lidingo comes through alone, maybe 1-2 minutes back...and with a lamp that isn't working well. Running the Long Night with a bad lamp wouldn't feel good. The announcers point out that Lidingo dropped from the lead a few years ago on the Long Night when the Lidingo runner went with Tore Sandik on a long road route to the first control (the leg was something like 4.5 km) and ended up running too hard then struggling to finish the leg.

IKHP seems to have pulled back some of the time they lost and are more like 5 minutes back.

-- Michael (meglin@Juno.com), April 26, 2003.


Still on the Long Night...

Janne Salmi from TuSu is leading a pack of about 20 runners. A Finnish club -- Poyahantati or something like that -- is a bit back, maybe 30 seconds. OK Hallen doesn't seem to be around.

Lidingo with a dim lamp is about 4:30 back.

About 5 behind the leaders is the next pack of ten runners. This pack has actually been gaining slowly on the lead pack. The group include: IKHP, Friskus Varberg and Malung.

Maybe the pack will pick up Lidingo and the poor guy with the bad lamp will be able to hang with them.

It'd be interesting to know what the runners in these packs are thinking, how they are reacting. I suppose some are just pushing hard an orienteering almost as if they were alone. Some must be just hanging. Some must be hanging and really fighting hard to keep up.

-- Michael (meglin@juno.coM), April 26, 2003.


At the end of the Long Night, a group of 17 teams finished more or less together with Janne Salmi (TuSu) in the lead. They interviewed Salmi who explained that he went out a bit behind the lead and went hard to catch the leaders at about the 3rd or 4th control. Then he went with the pack a bit, but it seemed like it was going not so fast. In the last hour of the race, Salmi tried to get away a few times and ran faster. But, they missed and got a bit lost. Salmi doesn't think TuSu can win. The next two runners are young without much experience.

We'll start a new question for the next legs...

-- Michael (meglin@juno.coM), April 26, 2003.


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