See the article from the NY Marathon website:
http://www.nycmarathon.org/marathon_stories/Isabel...I'm impressed that the article was confident enough to put "orienteer" into the headline - gets us some publicity. The runner from the article, Isabelle Andersson, now has a 2.23 pb for the marathon. I wonder what are the fastest marathons run by orienteers?
Gary Thompson of SLOC ran a 2:20 at Boston many years ago.
Murray Strain just ran 2.38 on a marathon with 600m climb last weekend! If we can ever persuade him to try one on the flat I think something special could happen there.
Jörgen Mårtensson 2:19:01
Kjell-Erik Ståhl has to be one of the best - if not THE best (ex) orienteer. His best time 2:10:38 is still a Swedish record.
He started out as a national team orienteer but switched to marathon after placing in the Swedish Champs in his first marathon. He became a very consistent sub 2:15 runner and doing this in most of his marathons in the 80-ies (70 of his 101 races were sub 2:20).
Jörgen Mårtensson ran a 2:19 marathon placing 5th in Stockholm in 1993.
2:23 for a female has to rate significantly higher on the list than 2:18/19 for a bloke... (though those listed above were probably vastly superior orienteers)
Two other orienteers running NYC this year: Mike Ball of SVO, USA and Helen Palmer GBR. Others?
I think Anders Tiltnes said a bunch of Norwegians would be running.
Pavlina third year in a row.
And DVOA TNT-alum Bobby Curtis, as well.
Norwegian Elise Egseth (top 25 in the world, and living in Seattle through April) is running in the NYC, too.
To take part in her marathon competition and stand a chance of winning some cool O' stuff at the same time as raising money for a good cause, visit Helen's page here:
http://marathon.simplyexcited.co.uk/
I am doing NYC this year. My first marathon experience so I figured I may as well do the biggest marathon race with the reputation for the best atmosphere! Really looking forward to it!
If anyone running the marathon wants to do some Blue Mtn orienteering before/after, send them to me in Peekskill. Good luck Anthony!
Thanks Neil. I think I will be restricted to hobbling around a few art galleries during the week after the race, interspersed with lots of sitting down and groaning :-)
Considering I needed help getting up kerbs the day after mine, I'd be very surprised if anyone took you up on that!
Also worth mentioning, Anders Tiltnes, one of the world´s best night orienteer, is running, along with a bunch of other national level orienteers. Its gonna be legendary.
Norway's Jan Fjærestad ran 2:13:31 (1983) and had many other races at a similar level. Combining that with 4 WOC medals probably gives him the top combination of achievement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Fj%C3%A6restad
My favorite quote from that article: "a high school for orienteering"
Giancarlo Simion has been italian national champion in long distance, sprint distance and relay; he was member of the italian team at WOC 2011. Last year he has been bronze medal at the marathon national championship at Venice Marathon (2h20m54s)
Alan Young is running - I saw him after Staten Island 1/2 marathon. He seems to be in a pretty good shape. I'm running too - still consider myself an O-guy...
The winner of the '97 NYC, Franziska Rochat-Moser, was a former orienteerer (junior national team).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franziska_Rochat-Mose...
You can track the runners online:
http://trackmyrunners.ingnycmarathon.org
Some bib numbers:
Alan Young - 509
Anders Tiltnes - 1600
Dmitriy Kourtchikov - 4023
Elise Egseth - 5123 (my housemate!)
Helen Palmer - 10802
More bib numbers, after reading back through this thread more carefully...
Angelica Riley - 25357
Anthony Cox - 9239
Bobby Curtis - 11 (2:16:46 finish)
Mike Ball - 31821
Pavlina Brautigam - 28802
Anders Tiltnes ran 2:41:40 (unofficial time)
Dmitriy has run a well-paced race and has overtaken Elise, after being almost three minutes behind her at the half.
Alan Young is on track to break 3:00. Go, Alan!
...but he'll need to kick the last mile.
Andreas Høye came in as best norwegian at 2:30:58, and top 50. Respect.
Unofficial finish times:
Alan Young, 3:00:30
Dmitriy Kourtchikov, 3:04:38
Elise Egseth, 3:06:21
Helen Palmer, 3:20:04
Congrats to all the O-finishers! As for myself, I suffered big time. First half fine in 1.39.54 - on target for 3.20 and feeling good. Then the wheels started to fall off and cramped badly. Wound up walking most of last 10km for a 4.06.12 finish. A tough day at the office, but a fantastic race atmosphere with huge enthusiastic crowds. Still having to walk backwards downstairs two days after the race!
Have signed up for the Paris marathon in April next year - gotta have another crack at this distance!
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