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January Classics: Day 8

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A different type of Classic for today: Thierry Gueorgiou’s “Night time trial” in Guardamar. As Gueorgiou put it back in 2010 when he set a new one minute PB: “Some orienteer likes to keep their best times on track; I prefer to chase my record in the forest”. Since then Gueorgiou pushed the PB down another 33 seconds in 2012 – and this year he repeated the new PB.

Gueorgiou tweeted: Still the same time on the N-course…

  • 2014-16’32
  • 2012-16’32
  • 2011-17’07
  • 2010-17’05
  • 2009-18’19
  • 2008-20’30
  • 2005-19’15

More from his message from 2010:

… When my watch showed 00:00, on the 1st January, I started my favorite orienteering course: The famous Night from Per Sterner, in Guardamar, Spain. I had been waiting my whole first week to have a rainy night to get a harder sand surface, but so far the weather has been excellent and therefore I had to use my 15 mm spikes to get a good grip on sand dunes. 17’05’’ later (3,8km), I was back from the forest and really satisfied with this good start for 2010

PS! We’ll be back with some real classics the next days:)

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