Saw something cool @ the Birkie this year

Hey, many great race tales out there this year. Thanks for writing
yours. Thats the first cool thing about the 2005 Birkie.

Next up, I actually saw Kristina Joder at the finish line ! I was flat
out shocked. Recall, she was struck by an automobile while rollerskiing
last fall. She'd had aspirations of making the national team (SWE) to
represent her country at the Obertsdorf Worlds. Helmet was cracked, and
I believe she barely survived. Long hospital stay. Story was translated
on fasterskier.com last fall shortly afterwards. She looked great, if
she had backslid a bit, she seemed quite glad to just be racing. I was
glad to see her back in action. Sets the stage for quite a comeback.

Next, Ned Overend, MTB World Champion, did really well in this race ! I
don't know if he was "noticed" but I was scrolling the top 100 or so,
and I saw him, at least top 200 anyway (without checking just now).
That's pretty cool. Makes me wonder if I could get Frankie out here on
the Michigan Cup....hmm....

What did you see that was cool ?

--- delltodd wrote:

Next up, I actually saw Kristina Joder at the finish line ! I was
flat
out shocked. Recall, she was struck by an automobile while
rollerskiing
last fall. She'd had aspirations of making the national team (SWE) to
represent her country at the Obertsdorf Worlds. Helmet was cracked,
and
I believe she barely survived. Long hospital stay. Story was
translated
on fasterskier.com last fall shortly afterwards. She looked great, if

Wait a minute. There is an American named Kristina Joder who is a
great skier. Was that who you saw? Maybe you have the two gals
confused?

Rob Bradlee

delltodd wrote:
Hey, many great race tales out there this year. Thanks for writing
yours. Thats the first cool thing about the 2005 Birkie.
[snip]
Next, Ned Overend, MTB World Champion, did really well in this race ! I
don't know if he was "noticed" but I was scrolling the top 100 or so,
and I saw him, at least top 200 anyway (without checking just now).
That's pretty cool. Makes me wonder if I could get Frankie out here on
the Michigan Cup....hmm....

What did you see that was cool ?

Tom Schuler is another retired pro rider who seems to be able to ski
pretty well (378)
Check the splits on Chris Sachs(7) and Joe Sem(8) in classic. Joe's
only 18 and skiing a pretty strong race. I suspect we'll see that name
for a long time to come.

Marsh

I am often confused as appears to be the case now. Thanks Rob.

Uni Odegaard was who I was thinking of (hit by car rollerskiing).

OK, easily interchangeable Scandanavian sounding names...whoopsie.

So, big deal. I saw yet another SFT skier ! Anybody else see anything
out of the usual ?

I had a great duel with Schuler in the '92 or '93 vasa.......
JK

I enjoyed scanning the results to see who did what.

Young Anikin seems to be moving up. 19th.

Old Asmus got 34th. (We skied a ways together from 2nd Wave in my only
Birkie, 1991, probably his first, too, so he has to be old. He was NMU
then, got 1st in the Wave and finished 15? mins ahead of me.)

I thought that Jay said he skied with Peyrot on the lake but she got
him by 3 mins. Isn't lake near the end? What do I know.

Is Oberbreckling a Boulder biker? Got 72nd.

Tim Swift, ex-Detroit bike racer, does good. 116th.

Coach Fjeldheim did good, 39th. Dang!

Cliff Onthank---old-timer from Traverse---does great. 105th. (51 yrs
old)

2nd place classic was 50 yrs old---2:44!

Travis Brown---another mtb racer---122nd, just ahead of Nedly.

Brothers Pierre and Andre Wille from Aspen keep rockin. Pierre 130th.
There's a 3rd and one was a NCAA coach, as I recall.

Andrey Revyakin did great at 146th.

The Brothers Kay finished together at 167th.

My local pals who drove up together finished together at 363rd, I see.
Bob and Rob. Canoe racer and top masters bike racer. They don't train
together or anything, just drove together. Car-time is a great leveler,
eh?

I vaguely suspect that Dave Jensen is a top canoer. He's in So-Calif.
now, I think, but originally Wisconsin I recall. Probably hardly sees
snow. Got 450th.

OLD Asmus?
Hardly ! He's was my roommate at NMU for two years.
A year younger than me..... which makes him 38 !!
Does that mean I'm old too?
He didnt start skiing until his sophomore year at NMU.
His wife was more impressive. Pregnant all summer/fall growing a aerobic
genetic baby, gives birth in december finishes in top 250 overall.
Vicky Newberry-Asmus. (2nd overall female a few years back - '94?)

JK

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I enjoyed scanning the results to see who did what.

Young Anikin seems to be moving up. 19th.

Old Asmus got 34th. (We skied a ways together from 2nd Wave in my only
Birkie, 1991, probably his first, too, so he has to be old. He was NMU
then, got 1st in the Wave and finished 15? mins ahead of me.)

I thought that Jay said he skied with Peyrot on the lake but she got
him by 3 mins. Isn't lake near the end? What do I know.

Is Oberbreckling a Boulder biker? Got 72nd.

Tim Swift, ex-Detroit bike racer, does good. 116th.

Coach Fjeldheim did good, 39th. Dang!

Cliff Onthank---old-timer from Traverse---does great. 105th. (51 yrs
old)

2nd place classic was 50 yrs old---2:44!

Travis Brown---another mtb racer---122nd, just ahead of Nedly.

Brothers Pierre and Andre Wille from Aspen keep rockin. Pierre 130th.
There's a 3rd and one was a NCAA coach, as I recall.

Andrey Revyakin did great at 146th.

The Brothers Kay finished together at 167th.

My local pals who drove up together finished together at 363rd, I see.
Bob and Rob. Canoe racer and top masters bike racer. They don't train
together or anything, just drove together. Car-time is a great leveler,
eh?

I vaguely suspect that Dave Jensen is a top canoer. He's in So-Calif.
now, I think, but originally Wisconsin I recall. Probably hardly sees
snow. Got 450th.

delltodd wrote:

OK, easily interchangeable Scandanavian sounding names...whoopsie.

Those Scandinavian countries are apparently easily interchangeable, too
- at least from a distance:-) - but FWIW the national team Unni
=D8degaard had aspired to make was NOR, not SWE.


So, big deal.

Indeed, it just goes to show that the better a skier is, the poorer he
is as a buff:-)


Anders

Anders wrote:
delltodd wrote:


OK, easily interchangeable Scandanavian sounding names...whoopsie.


Those Scandinavian countries are apparently easily interchangeable, too
- at least from a distance:-) - but FWIW the national team Unni
Ødegaard had aspired to make was NOR, not SWE.

As are the languages of course:

Swedes understands swedish, danes understand danish and norwegian, while
norwegians understand swedish and danish.

Finnish otoh is just a _little_ bit different, having no common roots
with any other language except hungarian afaik?

'Yksi, kaksi, kolme' - 1,2,3?, 'sanomat' - newspaper/daily?,
'sunnistaiat' - something to do with orienteering?

Anyway, that's just about all I've picked up from a few visits to Jukola.

:-)

Terje

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Terje Mathisen wrote:
Anders wrote:

delltodd wrote:


OK, easily interchangeable Scandanavian sounding names...whoopsie.



Those Scandinavian countries are apparently easily interchangeable, too
- at least from a distance:-) - but FWIW the national team Unni
Ødegaard had aspired to make was NOR, not SWE.


As are the languages of course:

Swedes understands swedish, danes understand danish and norwegian, while
norwegians understand swedish and danish.

Hm, i don't have any problems with Norwegian at least the one that are
talked normally. Far more problems with Danish.

Finnish otoh is just a _little_ bit different, having no common roots
with any other language except hungarian afaik?

'Yksi, kaksi, kolme' - 1,2,3?, 'sanomat' - newspaper/daily?,
'sunnistaiat' - something to do with orienteering?

Anyway, that's just about all I've picked up from a few visits to Jukola.

Almost any Finnish citizen have Swedish in school so they have a large
advantage of understanding English, Swedish, Norweigian, Danish and
Finnish. We are a little crippled because just a few understand Finnish
in Sweden.