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Next Sunday is the Long-O at Gerotek and you're going to be HUNGRY after orienteering for a Long time.

The mothers are putting together a feast. The menu looks like this:
Soup and bread
Chicken burgers
Drinks and beers
Chocolates

So leave your cool boxes at home and spend lots of money on food and drinks.

Thanks

Ruin(ous) detail at Doornpoort

We're going to try and make this a regular thing. We will put up some stuff to help the Juniors analyse their races.

Yesterday we headed north of Pretoria to a brilliant new map made by the van Hoepen's. Salome helped with the map, so she couldn't race. Well done!

All of the Junior's except Dylan were on the Green course, so we should be able to do some good analysis.

Firstly, the splits for the green are on Attackpoint here

Secondly: Peter asked Gary de Klerk to draw in his version of the ideal route for the Green course. Thanks Gary!Finally: Alex wore his GPS. He was walking/jogging around the course. He had a slight wobble at #1, but otherwise spiked everything. He just beat the girls, perhaps due to some more daring route choices. They should have been going faster than him on the day :-)
Here is a link to Motionbased, where you can see the route combined with Google Earth pictures.

The moms were out in force once again with a spread of muffins, biscuits and hot drinks. Thanks!

Unseen photos!

Here are some of the photo we've got that didn't make it onto the blog. We may regret some of them.

Dylan punching the last control on the relay. He ran the 1st leg

Alex, just after the last control on the relay, setting off after the Irish Ruairi.

Finishing the relay. He managed to get past Ruairi.
Dylan at the banquet with the Japanese Girls
The Latvian guys and girls before the banquet.
Yes, we did wear that to the supper part of the banquet.
Dylan negotiating the tricky middle run in.
Dylan BEFORE the long. Intense focus.
The start of the women's relay. Some SA girls in there next year?
Alex and Henrik at the start of third leg of the relay. The Estonian second team didn't have a great start and weren't far ahead of us.
The Ladies Sprint Podium. The winner was 16 years old.
The Mens Sprint Podium.
A picture off the web of Alex leaving the last control on the sprint.
Dylan discussing his race with Ruairi. Also off the web.
The SA top 10 list
A picture at the airport

Results

Here's a summary of our results from the week's competition. The best percentages were achieved in the sprint. Positions in the different races are hard to compare, but the Long produced better positions than the sprint. Dylan says he enjoyed the Sprint the most. Alex enjoyed the Middle Qualifier the most.

Name ..... Pos ..... Time ..... Winning Time ..... Percentage

Sprint
Alex ....... 130 ...... 17:14 ..... 13:21 .................... 129%
Dylan ..... 121 ...... 16:48 ..... 13:21 .................... 126%
Long
Alex ....... 126 .... 1:51:05 ... 1:12:22 .................. 153%
Dylan ..... 119 .... 1:47:37 ... 1:12:22 .................. 148%
Middle Quali
Alex ........38 ........ 37:36 ...... 27:04 ................... 139%
Dylan ..... 48 ........ 44:56 ...... 25:55 ................... 173%
Middle Final
Alex(B final) 57 ..... 49:38 ...... 29:23 .................. 169%
Dylan (C final) 41 .. 38:10 ...... 20:37 .................. 185%
Relay (note: used the fastest time on the day, but courses differed)
Alex ..................... 1:16:39 ... 48:22 .................. 158%
Dylan ................... 1:11:49 ... 48:22 .................. 148%

Back at home

We're back at home. We were a little short on sleep on Monday and took the opportunity to enjoy some of Gothenburg's parks. We spent the night in Karl's flat and traveled home on Tuesday.
That brings an amazing experience to an end. We've really enjoyed ourselves. JWOC is a great event and hopefully many other South African's will be able to experience it.

Thanks again to our sponsors, supporters and families. We appreciate all the interest in what we got up to.

Thanks must also go to the organisers. It was fantastic!

Keep an eye on the blog for the next few days. We'll put up some unseen photos from our trip, like our Banquet outfits and more importantly the Latvian Girls Banquet outfits

Beer O and Banquet

We finished off a tough week of competition with something a little different - Beer O! We weren't expecting it to be so competitive. We called it quits after 1 litre and 2km of orienteering. Henrik called it quits after throwing up 5 times. You can see Dylan and Henrik in this photo.
Then it was off to the banquet and party. Good times!

Relay

We joined up with a Belgian named Gilles for the relay. He had been getting similar results to us, so it seemed to be a good match.
Here is part of the mass start. Dylan is in there, near the front!

Dylan started for us. He had a solid run, coming home in 1h11. Gilles produced a good performance, with a time of 1h08. Alex had some big wobbles, but managed to get around in 1h16. After Gilles' run, we were about 37th. Alex came home in 39th. He managed to outsprint the Irish team on the run in.

We'll put up the map when we get home.