Owls Count

Back in my previous entry I mentioned that I would write about the World Orienteering Championships and the Tour races. Since then I have been a bit busy and so it has taken a few weeks to write anything. This was my first experience of orienteering abroad and overall it was fairly good. As terrain went it had reasonable similarity with some areas in the UK and so was not the complete shock that some places can be.

For the WOC Tour races it was a case of starting well and getting worse - saving my worst run for the last day, which, due to the odd results system being used, was the day for the overall competition results were based on. Having not run much this year I had opted for the comparative safety of M21AK.
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Finally back to my place, so that I can update about the World Orienteering Championships 2006. This first update is just a link to all the photos Barny and I took of the various events. I will blog more about the event and spectator races at some stage soon.

Long Qualifiers

Opening Ceremony
Sprint Final - Men
Sprint Final - Women
Sprint Prize giving

Long Final
Middle Final
Relays

WOC Tour Day 5