Discussion: Jukola 2009

Is anyone putting together a U.S. or Attackpoint team for this year's Jukola in Mikkeli, Finland? I just purchased my flights to Finland and am looking for a team.

I'll go and run but I gave up on the idea of forming a U.S. team a few months ago.

Well, we would only need 5 others to have a team... I'll ask if there is any interest among BAOC members. If not, I'll contact my old Finnish clubs.

Here's the listing on Attackpoint, Jukola 2009, showing who has entered a yes/no/maybe.

Looks like mostly people in Europe. Balter sort of stands out among the people with AP ranking numbers, and wilsmith and falcon without.

Balter always stands out :)

Won't be at the Jukola. Passport was stolen this past Monday.

Where are you? I guess you'll be there for a while.

I'm running the 4th leg for Espoon Suunta's 6th team (#512).

I emailed the Jukola Organizers about online streaming, and they said:

"Online streaming is planned to be open on 13th June (Saturday) at 12 AM.
Link to stream will be published on http://www.jukola2009.net when the streaming is available."

I read 12AM as Noon in Finland, so that is 5am in NYC, 2am in LA, and 7pm in Sydney, all on Saturday. The main event will start much later.

Later this week I'll find a competition schedule and post times for the various starts and expected finishes.

cedarcreek, when you say "online streaming", do you mean sound only or video also?
Sad to not be running this year, but excited about following the whole relay from home!

They said Video and Audio.

Yup, it's there now. Thanks!

Well, better late than never:

When they changed the webpage, they made it really hard to find the schedule:

Finland:
Sat 1500 Venla Start
Sat 1803 Venla 1st Finish
Sat 2030 Venla Prize Ceremony
Sat 2300 Jukola Start
Sun 0635 Jukola First Finish
Sun 0930 Jukola Prize Ceremony

NYC:
Sat 8:00am Venla Start
Sat 11:03am Venla 1st Finish
Sat 1:30pm Venla Prize Ceremony
Sat 4:00pm Jukola Start
Sat 11:35pm Jukola First Finish
Sun 2:30am Jukola Prize Ceremony

LA:
Sat 5:00am Venla Start
Sat 8:03am Venla 1st Finish
Sat 10:30am Venla Prize Ceremony
Sat 1:00pm Jukola Start
Sat 8:35pm Jukola First Finish
Sat 11:30pm Jukola Prize Ceremony

Sydney:
Sat 2200 Venla Start
Sun 0103 Venla 1st Finish
Sun 0330 Venla Prize Ceremony
Sun 0600 Jukola Start
Sun 1335 Jukola First Finish
Sun 1630 Jukola Prize Ceremony

Hong Kong/Perth:
Sat 2000 Venla Start
Sat 2303 Venla 1st Finish
Sun 0130 Venla Prize Ceremony
Sun 0400 Jukola Start
Sun 1135 Jukola First Finish
Sun 1430 Jukola Prize Ceremony

Jukola Webpage (streaming links should be here)

Jan over at World of O has a really nice Jukola preparations page with a lot of map samples and links.

He's also got a live interactive blog going on right now.

Has anyone gotten the streaming video going yet ??
Maybe they are not broadcasting yet but the Venla starts in 10 minutes so I assume so.

It´s working OK for me in Sweden!

Got it thx; needed an iptables tweak on my servers to open a non-standard port.
Looks like a gorgeous day. Wish I were there...

Can anyone compete with Halden?

Maybe Orion... they have two Sagers.

And did anyone notice that Lacho Iliev is running for Halden3? Go Lacho!

And Iliana Shandurkova ran for Halden1!

Halden runners now. Very nice. It wasn't too long ago that Wyatt was beating them.

What a long run-in! Norberg was running like a horse.

With Albin powering through leg 4 and some hammers on the last legs, where will Line finish?

I'm beginning to feel like Eddie--providing commentary for my own entertainment ;)

Have they been showing much GPS?

Enough. And a lot of TV.

Go Cheese!

(It had to be said.)

Wow, Tero is closing in on Emil! Or is Emil slowing down?

Emil!

He is trying to skip a control ;) OK, not so funny, I know.

52 seconds!

This is getting good!

Of moy, Emil is going on the road and the boyz are going straight.

Big route choice now....

I love when Minna conduscts interviews.

BTW--what happened to Line?

OMG

DQ?

http://online1.jukola.com/tulokset/en/j2009_ju/kil...

All even!!

Wow.

Poor Emil. He looks tired now. Wow, all on the same fork for 21. That may help.

He does look tired.

Tero misses.

It is surprisingly hard to match the GPS track map with the old map of the area...

This upcoming control is tough. Boulder in the green with tough attack...

Dumb question, but where is the dedicated GPS track (as opposed to in the TV coverage0?

Big fun in the Carr household on a Saturday night: Tom, Lisa and Cristina huddled in front of a laptop on the couch, watching Jukola.

They are dropping Emil.

Yep. He's done.

Nah, he's gettin' mad!

The leaders are "in virgin territory." Tom and I didn't know what that meant.

Aside from the top 300 or so, a lot of those orienteers looks like Americans.

LOL! We made the same comment!

Dude, this is what the NBA finals were supposed to be this year. Lebron vs. Kobe.

They've split!

Oooo, split route choices! Exciting!

Daniel's route wins.

Maybe Hubmann is too strong!

Will he spike it??

If he does, he wins!

There is no doubt Hubmann is strong.

hey, what the hell is going on in here?!?

There he goes! Well done.

We're having a Jukola party! All 4 of us.

Congrats to Kristianstad OK!!

Kristiansand! They are awesome!

Tero doesn't like to lose.

Tero looked bummed.

He got outrun.

I guess Halden won't take the track for 3rd...

Glad t hey're not making him read Finnish!

Dallas out!

I never saw this part... it's kind of cute.

But, remind me next time I'm in a position to win Jukola to take it easy on the run-in.

Novikov is in! Daniel is a beast!!!!

Nice that it was Novikov-Mamleev.

Whoops--that isn't Mamleev. I need HD streaming...

Mamleev ran 6 leg I think.

Did you see who was third in Venla?

Is Sime running out of time to catch up with the top girls?