10mila

Every year in the end of april 3 to 4 busses with happy students leaves Trondheim early early friday morning to drive far into Sweden in many many hours just so that they can participate in the famous orienteering relay Tiomila. This year it was at Rosenberg castle just outside Stockholm, and almost 150 joined! We might not win the relay, but we do win making most fun! We have our own light boards, a tower, laudspeakers, a band (with among others accordion), bbq wagon and we march in with the band playing and singing. In other words, quite a special experience.


And as I mentioned we did not win the relay, but we did win having most teams, and we got the last place in at least the mens relay, the FysMat(physics and math enigneering) team who in total used 19:22:04, which is just impressive :) The relay is 100 km in total , obviously due to the name 10 mila (one scandinavian mile is 10 km) and it starts at 10 in the evening, which means parts of it is in the dark (for the men, women have shorter and at day). The most famous leg is the socalled long night, which is around 18 km in the middle of the night. We participate with a number serious teams, and also with teams from differents studies or different other NTNUI groups. The coolest are ISU team (International students), most of them have never run orienteering and just do it as an awsome way to experience scandinavia.

I ran on NTNUI 2, which I was quite nervous about before start, since I did not feel I had ran enough orienteering last year in NZ to get on the second team, but I managed to get trough without getting lost and in a reasonable speed, and my team ended as 117 out of 320, which I most say is not bad at all! I also desided to run the men realy, and got 6th leg on the civil engineering team 6th leg is early in the morning and I got out running around 7 am, it was a lot of fun, but I did use 2 houres...

Well, all in all this was a great weekend, orienteering is fun!

NTNUI!!!

Matilde, Sigrid and Anette in Sundsvall on the way down

On the way down we always stop in a town (this year Sundsvall) and practise marching in and playing and singing. We marched passed some elders demonstrating for lower taxes, and asked if we could perform on their stage, this was a huge sucess :)

Rosenberg castle and a lot of people whaching the relay
Marching in! :)