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20080801-2300
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Hudson Valley...more than just good orienteering
Theres more than just good orienteering in the Hudson Valley. Theres also good eating. Mary came across a news story with my brother consulting on some scone making at boot camp. Mmmmm....orange and cranberry scones.....
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20080731-2300
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Note from Thierry Gueorgiou at Oringen
“You can’t expect great days, can win with an average day”
Brents notes from Thierry Gueorgious presentation at Oringen are worth a look.
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WOC qualifying and my spreadsheet model
NOTE: the source I used to WOC results (the Worldofo.com WOC history) has some errors. The good news is that the US history from the last 6 WOCs is better than the Worldofo.com history. Boris caught the error and left a comment.
I used the same spreadsheet model that I put together yesterday to look at the US chances of qualifying for WOC finals. I ran 10,000 WOCs using the US batting average
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20080729-2300
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Some notes on qualifying for WOC finals
I took the batting average for the peer nations and made a spreadsheet model of a series of WOC qualifying races. As a reminder, the batting average is the chance that a runner from the peer nations will qualify for a final (I used the entire group rather than each individual nation for my spreadsheet). Overall, 8.5 percent of the opportunities to qualify result in qualifying for a final.
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20080728-0217
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Big Team at O-Ringen
Americans represented with strong numbers at the World Cup events last week. Three WC races were held in conjunction with O-Ringen, and we had 6 women and 4 men take part. Here are the ladies (Viktoria, Hillary, Kat, Sandra, Ali, and Sam) after Tuesday\s race, the sprint:The setting for the sprint was spectacular. The course started many contour lines up a ski slope and traversed the open slope for several controls, fully viewable by the hundreds of spectators. It was hard to capture on camera, ...
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WOC Recap
It\s been a very busy month for the US Team, with a tough World Cup schedule immediately following the World Champs. And not much wi-fi! Hopefully the drought wasn\t too painful. Here\s a recap of results from WOC:Sprint Qual:A. Sandra- MPB. Hillary- 25thC. Sam- MPA. Eddie- 35thB. Ross- 25thC. Eric- MPLong Qual:A. Sam- 17thB. Hillary- 25thC. Sandra- 18thA. Eric- 20thB. Ross- 31stC. Clem- 31stMiddle Qual:A. Pavlina- 21stB. Viktoria- 29thC. Sandra- 20thA. Clem- 33rdB. Wyatt- 34thC. Eddie- 31stRel ...
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Last updated Wed Aug 20 23:50:02 2008