Discussion: Sarah?

Well, when somebody posts something, they gotta figure that folks will wonder. See Aug 15. Who is Sarah? Cowgirl? Protégé? Skogsflika? Border collie?

Scandalous!

Has someone alerted Peter?

He can't take all this Sime adoration, then he got bitten by two attack badgers and began hallucicating his all new superstar: Sarah. Those people in Wyoming have a weird life, check out Annie Proulx's Wyoming stories, e.g. in "Close Range".

Ladies and Gentleman I think it is not of our business. Please, give our respected Swampfox some privacy!

why ?

If it's private, then it shouldn't be on a publicly accessible website.

The esteemed Swampfox is a wordsmith. He does not use extraneous words and crafts his epistles assiduously. Therefore, I assert that if words like "Sarah", "badger", "socks" etc... find their way into his writings, we, as deconstructionists are allowed to consider their implications.

Oh, yeah, I was onto to this last night. The best I can come up with is Sara Delano (click on the 9th person listed), member of RMOC, also an adventure racer. Knowing how bad Swampfox's grammer and spelling is, the spelling of her first name (vs. his "Sarah" version) is further confirmation.

With all due respect to the sensitive nature of this, the only thing I will say further on this matter (for now) is -- Way to go, Swampfox!!!

Note that it is possible this isn't the Sara(h). If that is the case, blame it on Swampfox for not providing more info....

I think we are up to something here. Attackpoint becomes a real investigating news organization. We might go a step further: Is this Swampfox guy real? Maybe it is a fictional character plotted by Spielberg (again, what is this today?) on his secret ranch in Wyoming. Did you observe that this so called Swampfox looks different each time? And why is he refusing to go to the world champs most of the time? Because.

Spending time with a massage therapist is not at all unsuitable for an orienteerer.

Well - all available evidence points in one direction - she is the fox-tried lady of the highlands.

There is evidence that Swampfox's voice may not be his own.

You know, usually when you turn on your computer and you look over the things that have happened in the last 12 or 24 hours or so, it's just the ordinary stuff, business as usual. But sometimes you look at your screen and you can't believe what you are seeing and you go: "Ohhhhh, noooo!"

You guys are so far off it's not even funny. It's like Peter without a beard. It's like eating ice cream when you could have pizza instead. It's like asking for 3 cards in hopes of getting 3 aces to go with the one in your hand. It's like Dorothy waking up in Lenexa and thinking she's in Olathe. It's like Micronic O in a world championships. It's like george bush getting re-elected because there was no better choice. It's like attack badgers disputing a 3 day old mouse carcass when they could be chasing tired orienteers across the high prairie instead, and dining real, real good that evening under the full moon. It's like listening to the Bee Gees instead of SRV.

Maybe I was right about the border collie, then.

Domesticated attack badger.

Can the mighty Swampfox domesticate an Attack Badger? I didn't think it was possible...

swampfox denied thus:
>>It's like george bush getting re-elected because there was no better choice.

To paraphrase Eddie Murphy from an album that was popular when I was in college, "That $#!+ ain't funny."

Hmmm, Swampfox domesticating an attack badger...
Is this within his skill set?? Who has domesticated the Swampfox himself??
Say it ain't so!

Sara Lee perhaps?

A good smokescreen, though. Saying we are way off base, but then providing NO further information! Still, I have to feel sorry for Sarah, and hope that has a good sense of humor. Which I suppose she must, given the evidence so far.

Do attack badgers have senses of humor? Do they have any sense at all?

Is it possible that the term "attack badger" is being used by some denizens of Wyoming as an equivalent of a "Swampfox"?

Strong Hypothesis #2 has been identified, correct spelling and all, but I'll leave it to the sleuth to provide the details. This one looks even better than the masseuse to me.

An elite skier perhaps?

Yes--say, as the Japanese do, Konnichiwa to this not-so-radical hypothesis.

Konrad or Lantz? Maybe it's Burrowing Owls that Mikkel is afraid of!

Enough hints. Candidate #2 is Sarah Konrad. For more info, see the article in USA Today.

A very fine catch!!! The NGPC is keeping his fingers crossed.

Forget to mention, with her background in biathlon, if she can pick up the basics of orienteering, she should be able to move right to the World Championships level, middle distance at least.

NGPC? National Girlfriend Providing Commissioner?

National Gene Pool Coordinator.

Just to follow up on the suggestion that Sarah might be a domesticated attack badger -- oh, I hope it's not so. A quick visit to Badgerland will show one and all, and especially Swampfox (one hopes), "the folly of trying to keep wild animals as pets."

Cycling biathalon does sound interesting. Some days when I commute I wish I had a weapon of some kind slung over my back. Maybe I'd score a little more clearance from the morons.

I don't think the world is ready for Fast Eddie to be armed and dangerous.

I have been traveling all day, and now, relaxing with pleasant vistas of mountains looming to the east, I decided to check in. Maybe there would be some dissection of the US WOC results. Or perhaps attention would already be turning to next year, in Denmark, with incisive terrain analysis by one or more learned, veteran observers. But no! How embarassing!!! Not for me--for you! Good thing Kenny isn't dead, because if he was, and he saw all this, he would be rolling in his URL coffin. My remaining comments will be brief:

1) Your collective guessings are so appallingly bad that you are elevating Inspector Clouseau to genius level in comparison.

2) Nobody, and I mean nobody, who had ever seen a living badger up close and personal and hot on the attack would even dare to joke about trying to domesticate one. Attack badgers are an extremely serious subject, and not for joking about. Ever.

Kato? Are you zhere?

Okay, golden retriever then. Does your dog bite?

Unfortunately, orienteering shoes don't have any room for charcoal.

No reason to believe that Sarah is somebody who could be found on the internet. He's got a sleeping bag named "Greenie", so who knows what Sarah might be. A nickname for his truck? Or it could be somebody who shares his interest in gardening, who strolled up the ridge with him to look at some wildflowers.

But if the guesses are way off, that means that Peter has located some very appealing ladies in the Front Range (at least one!), who may be available. Bachelors take note!

As Kristin pointed out earlier - A good smokescreen. Reiterating we are way off base, but then providing NO further information!

How easy would it be for one of the pre-eminent bachelors in the world of O to say, "sorry folks, Sarah is my sister, who was in town visiting",
or (as JJ pointed out above) Sarah could be a nickname for his truck - maybe he's fashioned a harness and is hauling Sarah around behind him to provide a wee bit more resistance and increasing the training value of a run.

Instead he is maintaining this image of himself as an officer and a gentleman - maybe to protect the honor of this fair maiden? (I've seen him in uniform, way back, and he did present a dashing figure).

Swampfox - International Man of Mystery!!

Photo of Sarah now posted, along with an account of a romantic-sounding evening (Oct. 17 entry).

and so many people want to know that Swampfoxes account has exceeded its limits. Oh well, check back tomorrow...

At first I thought that tattoo was some sort of weird single-ponytailed kokopelli, but now I'm thinking maybe Sarah owns a VW.

Definitely a prison tattoo, the kind you carve out yourself with a spoon and some soap.

Is Sarah an attack badger? I know little of attack badgers, but I believe that they are four-legged, and Sarah appears to wear two right shoes, implying that she is four-legged.

Brian May hinted at candidate #3 earlier, so let's have a look at Sarah Lantz, a backcountry skier who is studying burrowing owls in Wyoming. If you blow up the upper right photo, you can see some purple shoelaces and a hint of the Asics logo. I suspect they met when some of his attack badgers ate some of her burrowing owls.

Not even I, as the designated eastern attack badger farmer in the Hudson Valley would dare to come up with such a daring theory.
Swampfox has been very forthcoming with a new snippet of information about Sarah. Currently the photograph is analyzed by a team of experts to find out if it is a fraud or if indeed it is the harmless picture of two legs with shoes and a tatoo.
It might contain secret information on a different layer, e.g. next years courses which Swampfox is testing or even the genetic code of the, well, no, I don't write this. Swampfox might take revenge and return to West Point and update the maps, which are in a sorry state since he left the proud hills of West Point for the wide open dreams of cowboys, horses and buffalo badgers.

Is there evidence the two legs both belong to Sarah?

How do we know that the legs don't belong to Mikell? I know that he has o-shoes the same color as those shoelaces. Shaved legs? I'm not going to judge a guy who wants to feel pretty.

Not Sarah Konrad, hunh? Too bad, looks like she just made the Olympic Ski Team! (And she lives in Laramie).

From JJ -- "I'm pretty confident that this is the real deal. 1:14:20 on Orange today. References upon request."