Comments on: WOC Long 2014 Men: The BIG analysis

By: Øystein Grøvlen

Øystein Grøvlen — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:19:43 +0000

Repeating here what I said in another thread:

I am surprised that Kiril Nikolov was not disqualified. It is evident from GPS tracking that he has no idea of where he is when he arrives at Georgiou’s control #19. It is clear that this is in violation of competition rule 1.2 which says that one should “navigate and run through the terrain
independently”

I also think that to reduce the problem of following, starting order should be the reverse of the current WRE ranking. This has several advantages:

1. Runners starting after each other will be at about the same level. Hence, change of catching up with the runners ahead will be smaller.

2. Runners being caught will be less satisfied with just following. E.g, if Lundanes was caught by Georgiou, he would probably try to get away in order to have a chance to beat him.

3. If someone still get a good result by following, they would have “earned it” through good results in previous races.

By: Bengt

Bengt — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 19:52:45 +0000

Acc. to the GPS K. Nikolov took approx. Mironovas route choice to the 4th. Loosing time – and being caught by Tero at 5th. Nikolov seems to have been running with Tero from 5th alle the way to the phi loop – 18th control. Even was with Tero to no 19 – and that shouldnt be his first in the phi-loop, should it?

By: Le_Ruff

Le_Ruff — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:32:12 +0000

Hi,
I think you made a big error when you said that… In fact Thierry is so good technicaly that when the challenge is not “orienteering” but to much running without really choises, he had sometimes awkwardly comments just after the 20km tired race… Tero always recognised the organizers hard job but he loves demanding courses with lots of steering : orienteering !

By: Agnar Renolen

Agnar Renolen — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:37:41 +0000

I wonder why none of the men opted for Mironovas route choice to the 4th control. it would have been mine.

It would also be interesting to see how the far left choise on road to the 15th would compare to the other choises for the men. It might not be faster but would save a lot of energy, which is useful on a course with this much climb. Many of the runners lost time in the end because they were tired.