Discussion: Yökuppi race series 2008 with live GPS tracking

GPS tracking testing phase is over, now it is for real. The world famous Yökuppi race series 2008 season begins today at 21:30 Finnish time. Tracking can be seen here . We have planned to use it in all races. Enjoy!


1 09.04.2008 21:30 Mäntsälä, Riihenmäen koulu
2 16.04.2008 22:00 Kärkölä, Rakokallio
3 23.04.2008 22:00 Orimattila, Nikkijärvi
4 30.04.2008 22:00 Mäntsälä, Keravanjärvi
5 20.08.2008 21:30 Hollola, Tihaja
6 27.08.2008 20:30 Lahti, Soltinjärvi
7 03.09.2008 21:00 Hollola, Sairakkala
8 10.09.2008 20:30 Nastola, Rakokivi
9 17.09.2008 20:00 Orimattila, Kiiliö
10 24.09.2008 19:30 Asikkala, Vesivehmaa
11 01.10.2008 19:00 Heinola, Syvälahti
12 08.10.2008 19:00 Hollola, Tihaja
13 15.10.2008 19:00 Orimattila, Tuuliharja
14 22.10.2008 19:00 Hämeenkoski
15 29.10.2008 19:00 Lahti, Tapanila

nnhggghh...

And here we go...
http://yokuppi.net/tracker/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?act=...

Looks like Tuxi mispunched 5.

Or there is forking. I don't know. He also usually keeps gps in his pocket, so accuracy may not be perfect (body shadow). It actually may just be pocket/gps thing, sat count is only 3-5. I'll call and ask... (yes, gps was in a far from perfect place and route was inacccurate).

Tuxi's time was about 40:55
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It's over for now. Quie many no-shows this time.

One hour to start. Start is 21:30 Finnish time.
http://yokuppi.net/tracker/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?act=...

Two runners seems to be there already, and third should appear soon.

Today again. Mass start at 22:00 Finnish time.

10 min to mass start. Topi and Tuxi, our longa natten runner seem to be there. And Prince too.
http://yokuppi.net/tracker/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?act=...

Same forking for every guy on tracking..

so far

next must be different - if not, it's the same all the way to the finish.

What's the length of the tail - 1 min?

1 min (I think)

mistake at 3... (Tuxi and Topi)

Prince almost got them, 20-30 sec longer mistake and they would have been all together again.

prince went swimming..

but paddles on bravely

He found it dificult to get over the stream.
BTW, note those checkboxes by the zoom, you can put tails on/off.

Chance for prince again... (13). T&T made a mistake.

Oh, big mistake for Prince..

nice to see the finns running around !

sprint finish? Yes, and Topi is a bit faster. I am not surprised.
a bit under 1 hour (about 58 min) for Topi and Tuxi.

Why are they all climbing the green hill 17-18?

Wet marsh?

I don't know, I was wondering the same. Maybe there was a sign pointin there...


Oh, yet an other mistake for Prince at second last.

Prince would need a sign now.

I hope team CSU are not watching how our best men are doing... they wuold be laughing at us.

team CTU, Jack Bauer, is watching, at least. Never laughs

And CSI: Helsinki
(Control Site Investigation).

Mass start again today at 22 Finnish time. Last event of the spring season. 4 hours to start. I'll be running myself too.

The walk to the start has begun.

Jagge slips by Tuxi at 12 and they're taking different routes to 13...it'll be interesting to see this race.

Home again. I guess like it has worked somehow. I didn't see Tuxi or Topi, but Tuxi said he saw me. I ran with an old halogen headlamp and I forgot to recharge the battery, I used it with 10W and hoped it would not die. And it didn't, lucky me.

Yökuppi autumn season begins tomorrow. Wednesday 21:30 Finnish time (GMT+2). Tracking of 5-7 runners can be watched live at the same web page as before.



They were wise enough at Beijing to not have any events at the same time - I am quite sure the bird's nest would have be empty because everyone would stay home to watch the far more exiting Yökuppi event!

And we are ready for tracking...
http://www.yokuppi.net/tracker/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?...
30min to start

This will be night-O.
Some day-time pics from terrain:
http://hirppa.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Suunnistus/2008/08_07...

They are waiting for the dark, I suppose...
But very soon the first will start.
You can see Jagge, Minna, Peesi, Prince. Where's Tuxi?

Women first! Minna R is on the course.

Tuxi home,a little bit flu

Prince taking a big mistake..? Wrong hill.
Tomi goes straight to 2nd.

Prince have problems with 2nd control point

Marathon man did some extra running.

Peesi's signal went down?
First little mistake for Minna, at 4th.
Troubles for Prince at the green area half-way from 3rd to 4th.

Maybe there is forking at 1st and 2nd? See Minna's and Jagge's routes.

Nice race for Tomi so far.

Trying to get over the cliff now...

Maybe it is impassable?

Should have passed it from left side..?

Minna and Prince went nice to 7th.
Will Jagge take a same route as Tomi?

No, he climbed it from left.

Tomi finished. Good run. Is there a small sliding at 11th.

Prince and Minna are coming with quite tight touch.

What now? Identifying mistake for Minna

She cleared it.

It's over for now.
Quite plain course, no real route choices.
They all orienteer straightforward. Just some mistakes to watch.
Next time mass start. That will be more interesting.

No forking. We (Minna and I) tested a cell phones with internal gps. Those aren't as accurate as sirf III ones, that's why there is lot's of short cuts and it makes some places look like forking.

But you get some idea how things are going in forest, so maybe those aren't not so bad after all. You just can't see any tiny detalis of the route.

Today start at 21:30 Finnish time. This time it will be a mass start with 10mila style (?) forking. Same web address. 5 hours left.

Map & course is out. About 30 minutes to start.

Looks like we have only one runner :( Two of the regular are sick and some are not there for other reasons.

Mass start with 1 runner ... hmm...

#1 road running. I think I might have gone straight & path by the lake.
#2 clear run so far. I wonder who'sthe leader of the pack. Not sultaani I guess.
#3 straight to right forking, all too clean run so far.
#4 no problem
#5 map is not too well positioned there, but it still look like a mistake.. actually it is perfectly positioned and it was a mistake for sure.
#6 wrong forking first I guess, but right one was close.
#7 lake path choice
BTW, this is Finnish relay champs 2007 ma/terrain. Thierry was pretty impressive here, even more then Sulttaani.
#8 easy, but he left the path too late.
... to finish, pretty clean. I wonder was there any faster runners. Results are not as online, posting results to web will take some hours.

Isn't it spelled sulttani...or this more like the raisin? Nice terrain (just found pictures at the yokuppi.net). Never mind now I see it is with two "t"s on GPS.

If perfectly positioned did he run through someone's garage on the way to 1?
Nice job Sulttani so far, whoever you are and whoever you are trying to outrun, I must miss the exciting sprint to the finish as my daughter says this is boring...well she is only 3.

Hey, of course it's perfectly positioned, because it's done by me(!?)
Maybe it is Sulttaanis's garage. He doesn't live far from here. Or he felt like singing - no, that's karaoke.

Sulttaani alias Jarno Käyhkö (The Sultan of Salpatie), Vehkalahden Veikot. Jukola 1st leg winner some years ago.

I watched it with my cell phone, here is a snapshot of the mistake at #5: http://routegadget.awardspace.com/misc/gpstracking...

Anyway, it's over now for now.
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Results (Sulttaani won it): http://www.yokuppi.net/?page=tulokset&kisa_id=129

Some photos: http://yokuppi.kuvat.fi/kuvat/2008-08-27-Soltinj%e...

Start again today 9pm Finnish time. 11 hours to start.

Some pics from terrain of tonight's race:
http://www.hollolanurheilijat.com/mp/db/file_libra...
(taken at spring)

Tonight's map and course (A and C course + all controls):
http://www.yokuppi.net/tracker/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?...
30 minutes to first start, it wll not be mass start this time.

Ok, here we go. Look's like we have at least four runners, three of them warming up.

Tuxi at 1st.

Prince is taking another route choice to 1st

Siiri is on the way, C-course.
Peesi, A-course.

Brave run by Siiri - C look quite tricky night course for beginners. Peesi got eaten by the vihattu monster (I heard he did exellent run, 40min).

Lots of mistakes very close to controls. No reflectors? Anyway, its over now.

It's Wednesday.(20:30 Finish time). Today's race is at Nastola, same site as Finnish sprint champs 2008. Live tracking will be at sake page as before:
http://www.yokuppi.net/tracker/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?...
Tonight's map is out, A course (B and C courses with blue lines). 15 minutes to start.

- Tuxi seems to be there, and "Peesi" Pentinen, last week's winner.
- Prince (AP's Terkelsen) is live and kicking, running around 400m track.
- Tuxi is having some difficulties with #2.
- looks like the north part of map is not calibrated too well - I didn't have much reference data. Well - I don't bother to fix it on the fly, let's see how it goes.
- Tuxi is making spaghetti at #5
- prince has made pretty clean run so far... and all the way to finish. well done.

So, it's over for today. I peeked stats briefly, looks like we had record audience for this live tracking tonight. I was wathing and so was Yahoo! Slurp and Google bot. That makes three, not bad at all!

About 3 hours to start. Mass start 20:15 Finnish time. This should be intresting, tonight's terrain is really challenging. And A.Le Coq is course setters, so anything can happen. Some new runners with tracking devices should pop up too. Unfortunately I am sick and I can't run.

4 runners warming up. 15 min to start.

Cool race. Peesi made mistake at #8, Tuxi got away there. Prince & Peesi together from #8 to finish. Lots of mistakes just as we wxpected. But not any really big ones this time. Maybe live audience makes you navigate better?

7 days to next session...

Last night's replay:
http://www.yokuppi.net/tracker/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi

It's wednesday again, 3 hours to start, this time in 2002 Jukola terrain.

Jukola 2002, remembering...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFGpyw5yRGM&feature...

And here we go - same page as before.

3 hours to go. 19:30 Finish time. Staggered start.

Here we go:
http://www.yokuppi.net/tracker/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?...

Today we may have live travking again at 19:30 -> finish time. 2 hours. It also Lahti district night champs.

http://www.yokuppi.net/tracker/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?...

I'll be running and wil not set it up or see courses in advance, so we'll see if they are able to set it up - they have other thigs to take care. Like results... (and makkara).

Mass start today 20:00 Finnish time. 3 hours to go:
http://www.yokuppi.net/tracker/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?...

Starting again right now:
http://www.yokuppi.net/tracker/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?...
Looks like ee have at least five tracked runners today.

The last race of Yökuppi 2008 will be tomorrow. Mass start. New improved live tracking viewer. Even Swisscheese will be there. I hope they will strap gps tracker on his back too (and 10 kg extra weight se he will not get away on the way to #1 ... what so you think, will he believe us if we give him a huge backpack and say we use these heavy but very accurate gps units?).

What time will it be? Would be great to see Swisscheese tracked live!

It's in the first post, i think 0.00 finnish time.

Mass start will be tonight at 19:00 Finnish time.

That seems slightly more reasonable than 0.00 finnish time...

By 0.00 they all will be so full of makkara those dots would not move almost at all.

I hope they will find one for Swisscheese. They are a slightly short of GPS devices. The idea of washing devices as coloured 40°C wasn't so good idea after all, right Ale?

But it is very clean now.

25 min to start. Here's tonights course:
http://www.yokuppi.net/tracker/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?...
Tuxi will try to strap his tracker to Swisscheese's back. Initials will be MLa. But we will see.

TPe is warmng up, KLe (AP Terkelsen) is there ans also MLa initals popped up - I hope it really is Swischeese (edit: I got call from Ale, it's Swisscheese). I guess have only three tracked runners this time.

Satellite count seems a bit low, I gess they didn't put them on early enough. Hopefully it will work.

Note, you can turn route line on/off by clicking the little boxes in the legend (top right corner, in front initials).

Start! And over!
We lost both TPe and KLe and just barely got Swisscheese to finish. Hey guys, let's turn gps units on to search and lock to satellites a bit more early next time...

Results: http://www.yokuppi.net/?page=tulokset&kisa_id=139
Splits: http://www.yokuppi.net/valiajat.php?kisa_id=139
RouteGadget (in a minute or two): http://gadget.yokuppi.net/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?act=m...
Photos:

The Winner and Makkara

Yesterday'r replay is starting right now. It was one of the least succesful tracking session, but I have been requested to put it on again se there it goes.

(Last week session would make better show, those routes can be seen here: http://www.yokuppi.net/tracker/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?... )

So, it was the last event, Yökuppi is over for now. There will be 2009 Yökuppi for sure, but will there be any live tracking or not, it is open.