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| # Posted 2008-05-01 07:19:58 | |
| Swampfox: | If someone showed me this course and asked me where it was from, I would have never been able to guess it was from Tio-Mila. |
| # Posted 2008-05-01 08:21:45 | |
| PG: | I assume for some reason other than you are losing your marbles?
By the way, had a nice chat with Göran, then also with Ingrid, who was serving korv in the IKHP tent. |
| # Posted 2008-05-01 08:39:41 | |
| Swampfox: | It doesn't look like any relay course I've ever seen before, is why. Nothing wrong with it, it would have just been a tough guess.
Neat that you got to see Ingrid and Goran! |
| # Posted 2008-05-01 15:18:49 | |
| PG: | What was surprising to me was how little the spreads were on the forks. All the cases I saw had the forked controls within 100 meters of each other. Much more spread when we were at Jukola. |
| # Posted 2008-05-01 17:17:18 | |
| Spike: | It has a bit of a 25-manna look to it. |
| # Posted 2008-05-01 18:17:52 | |
| feet: | Knowing that the forked controls would be close together, I decided to give y'all training for that in Rochester the previous week.
Incidentally, what exactly does a relay course look like, in particular, a 10mila course? |
| # Posted 2008-05-04 07:36:21 | |
| Hammer: | Clicked on the map (first time seeing the Tio map) and thought 'what a strange tio mila course'....then saw mikell's post. So either I'm losing my marbles too, or people with middle mike names think alike, or it is a lot different than tio relay courses I've seen (and raced on) before. |
| # Posted 2008-05-05 07:31:01 | |
| PG: | I assume that the reason it might look different is that I ran the shortest leg, just 5.7 km. So you don't get the long legs.
Or, not having been to any previous Tiomilas and therefore unaware of what a Tiomila course is supposed to look like, is there another reason? |
| # Posted 2008-05-05 20:14:52 | |
| bubo: | I think one of the reasons has already been stated by Spike above. A lot of the course setting had a certain flavour of 25-manna. That doesn´t mean the courses necessarily are bad or that the courses at 25-manna are bad - but they are often different.
Sometimes you have to make some compromises to get to the really nice - as in this case - finish areas which may affect the course setting. I think this example is due to the course being so relatively short and the area surrounded by a lot of meadows and park land... Very often you definitely get a lot of tougher terrain and longer legs - let´s just hope that this is not the beginning of the new era of "park O Tiomilas". |
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