Discussion: Nice

Was convinced you would get a PB, considering the amount of training you have done, but i guess since you havent rested up for this one, it makes sense(?)

btw. Øystein K. Østerbø has run it at around 8:40, (as well as Weltzien), and plans on doing it down to 8:15 before next WOC. easier said than done. Unless you are refering to some other time trial they did?

Here are some PBs of some old Norwegian orienteering heros (and newer ones too):
Jan Fjærestad 7.57.06
Truls Nygaard 7.59.60
Pål Corneliussen 8.00.18
Oddmund Roalkvam 8.00.5
Yngvar Christiansen 8.01.78
Terje Næss 8.10.12
Øivind Hylleseth 8.15.33
Øyvind Thon 8.23.8
Dagfinn Olsen 8.24,2
Jon Tvedt 8.24.42
Rolf Vestre 8.26.60
Jørn Therkelsen 8.26.6
Morten Hoffmann 8.28.0
Arild Aasheim 8.31.04
Håvard Tveite 8.32.25
Harald Thon 8.32.4
Viggo Aaberg 8.32.7
Svein Jacobsen 8.35.0
Lars Ølstad 8.37.04
Holger Hott Johansen 8:38,0
Lars Drage 8.38.4
Lars Skjeset 8:39,0
Anders Eide 8.39.01
Gjermund Hanssen 8.39.30
Øystein K Østerbø 8:41,6
Anders Norberg 9:04,0

haha, you got that from the excel sheet, right?

Notice how the old-school orienteers have the fast times, where as 3 of the WOC racers are at the bottom 5. In old times, there was a common belief that an elite orienteer should be doing sub 30-29 at 10km. I still think that should be embraced.

The times I was thinking about.

http://www.fvn.no/sport/ovrig_sport/article813537....

mattias>> A PB is far away, even though I am training real good now, the focus is on longer distances I am lacking all kind of speed workouts right now..

i think next time the norwegians will be running faster aswell, not only you ;) ...

as a club member i also have to mention martin hoset who did 8:35 in 2010. being norways fastest orienteer on 3k this year :)

i can mention the fastest orienteer in the world. lubina 7.54min PB. good luck to beat that

but he didnt run it this year, did he?

naomi>> hehe, I run 8:30 in the beginning of 2010, so meaning I am better than all the norwegians then. :-)

The discussion who is the fastest I don't know anything about, lubina is probably one of the fastest on shorter if he is classified as a orienteer for that sake. On longer distances I don't know if he is the fastest.

The main thing I wanted to point out is how poor actually the Norwegians are on hard surface running, most of the other national teams I think have at least a couple that make sub-8:30.. But anyway they smashed all others pretty much in Trondheim so maybe it doesn't matter so much..

Would have said the same thing myself. They arent very impressive when it comes to non-forest running. There´s a reason why not a single norwegian has won the sprint at WOC.

lubinas personal bests:

1500m 3'45 Osnabrück
3000m 7'54 Rhede
5000m 13'38 Kassel
10000m 28'29 Camaiore, ITA
10km 29'02 Bad Liebenzell
Halbmarathon 64'20

http://alexander-lubina.de/bestleistungen.php


and he is german nationalteam. won the qualification at WOC 2008 in Czech Republic and has a 19th place as WOC-best

Still some way to go to beat Carsten

10,000 Metres 27:54.76 Lisboa 04/04/1998
Half Marathon 1:01:55 Uster 27/09/1998

http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/letter=j/...

still faster than carsten on 5k and 3 k ;) and thats what counts for sprint-orienteering, which he is now aiming for