The work of Porvoo Borg\u00e5 Jukola’s course-setter are progressing on schedule. With great volunteer work,
\nthe extensive bagging and sorting of maps has been completed and all the maps are already in their team
\nbags. The course-setters have extensively reviewed the forking imposed on the different teams once more
\nbefore the final inspection by the controllers. Next, Stefan Karlsson and Pekka Vuorinen will move on to the
\ncompetition terrain to check the control points and their structures after winter. Before that, it was nice to
\nchallenge the friends to a long control interval, with a small battery of questions.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Stefan:<\/strong> 52 years, I’m from Sipoo (Sibbo in Swedish), where I’ve been living almost all the time except for Pekka:<\/strong> 63 years. I spent first 58 years in Porvoo but now live in my fifth year in Pohjois-Nikinm\u00e4ki, Vantaa, <\/p>\n Stefan:<\/strong> Snowfall in Kankaanp\u00e4\u00e4’s Jukola in 1975. At the age of 4, I was following Jukola for the first time. I Pekka:<\/strong> Laitila Jukola 1985 in Tulej\u00e4rvi, where my friend Thomas Nyholm lured an adult, green-nosed man <\/p>\n Stefan:<\/strong> There are a lot of memories along the way, but Iso-Sy\u00f6te Jukola 1988 has stuck in my mind for many Pekka:<\/strong> all Jukola relays stay in the memories because the weekend is just such a great event as a whole. <\/p>\n Stefan:<\/strong> J\u00e4mi Jukola 2004, even though the terrain was not "my terrain". The anchor leg went well apart Pekka:<\/strong> My best performance is anchoring the superb Luosto Jukola in 1994 with the 37 th best time of the 7 th <\/p>\n Stefan:<\/strong> At the age of 12, I did my first courses for serial orienteering in my own village. The level was tough Pekka:<\/strong> I think my enthusiasm for course-setting came after Jukola in Hollola in 1987, when I started to <\/p>\n Pekka:<\/strong> certainly better at FinnSpring in Sipoo 2012. It was also a test competition for European Stefan:<\/strong> see Pekka’s answer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stefan:<\/strong> Giving a challenge to orienteers. As a course-setter, you have to weigh up what a good course and Pekka:<\/strong> as course-setters, we are in service, and the customer is a demanding orienteer looking for new <\/p>\n Stefan:<\/strong> of course, I heard that Kaukamets\u00e4l\u00e4iset is looking for organizers for 2027 and 2028. Hopefully the Pekka: right away. This is done in cooperation with a carefully thought-out group, where everyone has their <\/p>\n Stefan:<\/strong> There are many hundreds of hours of meetings, more than a hundred terrain visits, even more Pekka:<\/strong> the bills got messed up a long time ago and it doesn’t matter. As an Excel genius, Stefan has done <\/p>\n Stefan:<\/strong> My own course-setting philosophy has changed over the years. In the past, I perhaps placed more Pekka:<\/strong> the big challenge for a course-setter is always the terrain that is available; you just have to get the <\/p>\n Stefan:<\/strong> Italian cuisine, especially homemade pasta and porcini risotto, always sinks in.<\/p>\n Pekka:<\/strong> all food prepared together, requiring a little bit more effort, made from high-quality, typically <\/p>\n Stefan:<\/strong> let\u2019s go to and come out from the forest happily. Hopefully, we can offer orienteering experiences Pekka:<\/strong> remember to be in the toughest running shape of the summer and have the idea of orienteering at The work of Porvoo Borg\u00e5 Jukola’s course-setter are progressing on schedule. With great volunteer work, the extensive bagging and sorting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":3077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmy years of studying in Turku and a couple of years elsewhere.<\/p>\n
\n50 meters from the border with Sipoo.<\/p>\nThe first Jukola experience?<\/h4>\n
\nhad to wait 11 years before I got to the terrain in Kaanaa Jukola in 1986. Since then, I have run, organized
\nor been on site almost every year.<\/p>\n
\ndirectly from the icy playing grounds. I was nervous as hell; there was in team Akilles OK 3 a second last
\n14.4 km leg in front of me and I hadn’t even run that long on the street. The experience was addictively
\nawesome; the show still continues.<\/p>\nThe best Jukola memories<\/h4>\n
\nreasons \u2013 great terrain, starting point. We forgot our tent’s poles at home, but luckily the tent site was in
\nthe woods, so our tent was hanging from the branches. I represented for the first time in Sibbo Vargarna
\n(Sipoo Wolves) first team ranked 59 th and we won with a very young team (4 juniors and 1 senior) Akilles OK
\nin a couple of minutes. It should be mentioned that in addition to me, the Porvoo Borg\u00e5-Jukola map and
\ncourse committee leader Pasi Liiti\u00e4inen ran in Sibbo Vargana. Similarly, my course-setter colleague Pekka
\nVuorinen as well as Ove Simosas, who in Porvoo Borg\u00e5 Jukola has handled the landowner permits, ran in
\nteam Akilles OK.<\/p>\n
\nThat atmosphere and my own performance in the company of other orienteers; a new experience expected
\nevery year. But perhaps the coolest thing of all was to see our elite young orienteers, anchored by Otto
\nSimosas, cross the finish line of Lappee-Jukola 2016 in 12th place. It was a real top performance from a
\nteam that blew it together nicely. We older orienteers were really proud Trianians then.<\/p>\nYour best Jukola performance?<\/h4>\n
\nfrom a couple of very minor mistakes, losing less than seven minutes to the overwhelming top two Thierry Gueorgiou and Emil Wingstedt. The best team ranking is 29th from 2010, but my own performance was very poor then.<\/p>\n
\nleg. Looking at the result list and noticing the names of well-known runners, I realized that I had done very
\nwell. Akilles OK was 60 th in the post at the time. My best best ranking is 31 st with Akilles OK in Vehkalahti in
\n1992.<\/p>\nWhen was the first time you were a course-setter?<\/h4>\n
\nin these Box village orienteering competitions: just as an example local orienteers have reached a World
\nChampionships, several Nordic championships medals and five Boxers have achieved more than thirty
\nFinnish championships in total in different forms of orienteering. It sparked for course-setting: serial
\norienteering events in our village, club trainings and weekly fitness orienteering events. In 1990 I was the
\ncourse-setter at the district scout championships and a couple of years later it was time for first national
\ncompetitions. I\u2019ve been a course-setter or assistant course-setter in over thirty competitions. I made my
\nfirst ’Jukola tracks’ already in 1984 in S\u00f6derkulla terrain, and now almost 40 years later I can say that with
\nsmall changes they could also be run today.<\/p>\n
\nstudy forking systems and then, more broadly, the performances of top orienteers in prestigious
\ncompetitions on different course-setters\u2019 courses. When the orienteering career started at the age of 25,
\nso did the duties of a course-setter with tasks of various levels, from club training to national competitions,
\nboth individual and relays. The first very demanding task was the Finnish Championships of extra-long
\ndistance in 2007 in Karhunkorpi, Porvoo, right next door to our Jukola terrain. As contrast to it have been
\nsetting courses of different sprint orienteering competitions, which I also like a lot.<\/p>\nWhen have you gotten to know each other in course-setting?<\/h4>\n
\nchampionships. Stefan was the course-setter of the individual competition and I was the course controller
\nrepresenting OK Orient. Spring was late and Sipoonkorpi was really covered with snow a week before the
\nrace. The snow melted, but it was a lot of rapping and fighting for the orienteers. It really annoyed that
\nStefan’s top courses suffered in this way.<\/p>\nWhat is it about course-setting that hooks and gives satisfaction?<\/h4>\n
\ncontrol intervals are like. Whenever I move in forests, I look at good places for control points. If an
\norienteer learns something new about the courses or the competition as an orienteer or as a person, then
\nthe course-setter has succeeded. It can be a small or bad mistake, a successful route choice, new power
\ntraits or mental forces. As a course-setter, one also hopes that the best will be hard hit both skillfully and
\nphysically, and that the spectators will be able to enjoy a good and exciting race.<\/p>\n
\norienteering challenges and experiences. With that challenge, it’s always great to go out into forests with a
\nnew map to set courses for elites as well as for the youngest and age orienteers, all with the same lust.
\nFinland is full of different orienteering terrains, and all course-setters strive to offer the best for orienteers
\nfrom their own starting points and the opportunities offered by the terrain. Of course, the most exciting\u00a0and addictive thing about choosing the Jukola control points with Stefan in Epoo’s wilderness has been the fact that in June, the best orienteers in the world will punch at those control points, followed by an unimaginable number of great orienteering fans.<\/p>\nKnowing the workload of Porvoo Borg\u00e5 Jukola, would you accept such a challenge now?<\/h4>\n
\nclub has applied now when we are in full speed. With a good organization, this is easy.<\/p>\n
\nown place. We all have our civilian work, but in the end the workload is not at all unreasonable, as the huge
\nhelp is provided by enthusiastic volunteers, for example, in the construction of control points and the huge
\nwork of bagging maps. A deep salute to everyone and, of course, first to the head of the map and course
\ncommittee, Pasi Liiti\u00e4inen.<\/p>\nHow many hours have been spent on the duties of a Jukola course-setter?<\/h4>\n
\nhours in front of the computer, and "short" everyday glances at the map and all the days in six years
\n(except for those days when I’ve been on a trip and then the secret map hasn’t been with nme). From this,
\nthen everyone can calculate those hours for themselves.<\/p>\n
\nplus something compared to me. Stefan certainly agrees with me that such a challenge is just so great
\noverall that it doesn’t matter the hours. Both of us, subjectively speaking, have demanding "civilian work"
\nto take care of, but at least I get a bit of enthusiasm for everything I do for Jukola. We are not running out
\nof energy, and certainly not even after Jukola.<\/p>\nDescribe yourself as a course-setter?<\/h4>\n
\nemphasis on the control points and the "hiding" of the flags, but nowadays the focus has perhaps shifted
\nmore to the route choice. Of course, the placement of the flag is still important: the flag should not shine
\nfrom a hundred meters away. The goal is that if I myself do not know how to run, then probably the control
\ninterval has been successful. I’ve always been more of a skill orienteer, but I also value high physical
\nqualities. These elements in balance can be seen on my courses, hopefully also in this year’s Porvoo-Borg\u00e5
\nJukola, although these relays are different from the usual national competitions.<\/p>\n
\nbest out of it. When I see a orienteering map, a sketch always appears on it right away, which in the end is
\nvery close to the final one. Naturally, the starting point for all course setting is an accurate review of the
\nterrain, as the course setter must know what the orienteer encounters with each control and intervals of all
\ncourses. Personally, I’m aiming for challenging orienteering tasks that are constantly changing, changing
\nrhythms for running and surprising in control picking. Not all control intervals, be it long or short, need to
\nbe most demanding, as this can attract orienteers to overspeed and loss of attention. That is then followed
\nby something else. The big thing about working with Stefan has been the continuous learning, as I myself
\nhave been a "lone wolf" in the past. In my opinion, in Porvoo Borg\u00e5 Jukola, we have succeeded in
\ncombining the best expertise of both of us, also taking into account the terrain.<\/p>\nYou both are long thin orienteer-looking fellows. So, it must be asked about your favorite food?<\/h4>\n
\ndomestic ingredients. And dessert weakness is Paula’s oven-hot cinnamon buns and cold milk. Already 63
\nbut I still haven’t learned to eat moderately\u2026.<\/p>\nFinally, greetings from the course-setters to Venlas and Jussis?<\/h4>\n
\nfor everyone, both top and newcomers. Only one team can win the competition, but "winning oneself is
\nthe first and best of victories" (Plato).<\/p>\n
\nits sharpest on June 17-18. Say hi before the race, and hi happily after the race. And you can also come and
\ntalk, still before and after the race. Course-setters are always hoping for feedback. Welcome to Porvoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"