Discussion: Highlander

Whoa, i hear you won the Highlander! Nice work!! I thought you were just going to run half of it?

Congrats John. You are on fire at the moment. North American Middle distance Champ, long distance bronze, highlander champion, sprint series champion. Man, what will you do when you turn 21?

The plan was to stop at 2 hours, but I was in the middle of one of the courses at 2 hours so I decided to finish it. I then stopped for about 5 minutes before Paul Bennet was able to convince me to finish it since the last loop was only about 4k. I am pretty mad at myself for not having the discipline to stick to my plan since I am sure it is going to effect my training and racing for the next couple weeks and the season is not quite over for me. I have to admit though it is pretty cool to know that I have done it.

He's unstoppable. He brings the hurt to any distance, anywhere.

BTW--what happened to the old Highlander results? They used to be accessible from HVO, but not anymore?

I went to http://hvo.us.orienteering.org/hvo/results/highlan...

John, you can survive a Highlander without a trauma to your training schedule. Now of course I understand were your six minute lead over Flavius and Vadim went. Resting and having some serious coaching from Paul. You might the first winner of the Highlander who took a five minute or so break before going on. So you stuck to your plan. You stopped one race and started another race some minutes later.

The whole plan of stopping the Highlander shows one smart thing: You try to keep your energy together and don't want to burn out.

What you need to do now is to slow down for two days and you recover quickly to be in excellent shape. And to allow time for recovery takes discipline, because you might feel like Swisscheese after his marathon win: He felt so good the next day, that he had to go out and move. A moderate 8-10 k is good for recovery, in my experience. Better than doing nothing.

This what I can find:
2003

2005

The results must be somewhere, probably on ... John's computer, if he downloaded the results when remaking our web site. If now, it seems J-J has the full collection, since he has updated the rankings.

We might need to rebuild the Higlander archives from there.

Damn, I just looked through the files I saved from the old site, and most of the Highlander results are missing. I am not sure how I missed them. 2005 seems to be the only one I saved...

Where are these rankings you are talking about?

Nice running John. Way to take it to the old guys ;-)

The rankings is based on J-J's statictics.

The file needs work on it before I can post it. The data is linked between different spreadsheets. I can't just copy the stuff and post it. Oups, just had an idea how to get rid of the formulas linked to other pages. When I copy it to MS Word they are gone. I have simple numbers and can make a web version of it.

The ranking is based on a simple point system: You get a point for each person you beat. This is the top ten before 2006:

Gregory Balter (9 finishes) 464.0
Joe Brautigam (10) 440.5
J-J Coté (10) 410.0
Peggy Dickison (10) 403.0
Bernard Breton (10) 392.5
Jeff Saeger (9) 381.5
Pavlina Brautigam (9) 364.5
Charlie DeWeese (10) 349.0
Peter Gagarin (7) 332.0
Boris Granovskiy (5) 273.0

(20. Clem McGrath (4) 206.5)

How do you beat half a person?

With accurate swings? Top or bottom half would certainly be easier than right or left half. Unless you're really good.

Hammer, he's still got a goat to win!

You got it Dobbs. Are you going to be there to defend it?

>Way to take it to the old guys ;-)

Some of the old guys weren't there.

>Hammer, he's still got a goat to win!
Yup, and I plan to run the Billygoat for a few years in a row to try to close the gap to Weyman on career Billygoat points.

Last time I ran the Billygoat some guy name John Frederickson followed me for 75% of the course.

Next time you might want to try to follow him.

That sounds like my Swedish imposter. I didn't think he ran any races in the US yet.