Tonight is the largest orienteering relay held in Sweden the home of orienteering. For the men there are teams of 10 runners and for the women there are teams of 5 runners.

The women’s event starts at 14:30 (22:30EST) and all legs are in daylight. There is over 340 teams entered from clubs, mostly Scandinavian. The men’s event starts at 21:30 (5:30 EST) with the first 6 legs being in the dark. There are over 300 teams entered in the men’s relay. The mens relay is expected to finish at 7:30 (3:30EST)

There is live web TV of the events including GPS tracking and also live results

http://www.10mila.se/index.php/en/onlinelive2015eng

There will be some Australian and New Zealand representation. Julian Dent who was in the second placed Lidingo SOK team in 2014 will again be running the second leg for the Lidingo SOK team and they are one of the favourites this year after their great effort last year.Julian was the first finisher on leg 2 last year. Leon Russell-Keely will be running third leg for Lillomarka OL (Norway) and Henry McNulty will also be running the third leg for OK Linne (2). This is the long night leg (16.5km) without any forking. Also Matt Ogden (NZ) will be running leg 9 for the OK Linne (1) team.

Lizzie Ingham (NZ) who has just moved to Halden in Norway will be running leg 4 for the Halden (2) team in the women’s relay.

Comment from the World Of O describing this years relay

Long night already on 3rd leg – more unforked legs than usually

Last year the men’s 10Mila relay opened with two legs in daylight – and the long night was all the way back at the 6th leg. This year the first leg (13.1 km) is back in the dark, with the long leg already at the 3rd leg after a shorter second leg (10.4 km). That means that it will be very important for aspiring winners to stay in touch with the leaders for the two first legs – to not risk missing the big 10Mila train on the unforked 16.5 km long night on the third leg.  After the long night, there is still room for a lot to happen in the dark on legs 4 (8.6 km), 5 (11.4 km) and 6 (7.5 km, unforked) – this short 6th unforked leg might very well be where many teams loose contact with the leader as we have seen many times before. Many teams may underestimate the challenge on this leg – this will definitely be an interesting leg even if it is unforked if there are some small gaps going in to the leg.

It starts getting light on the 7th leg (10.2 km; the sun gets up at 04:23, this is exactly the expected time for changeover AFTER the 7th leg) – while the 8th (12.6 km), 9th (8.5 km, unforked) and 10th (17.5 km) are run in daylight. Thus a total of 3 unforked legs this year.

The start for the men’s relay is at 21:30 CET with the winners expected in the finish at 7:30. That means fast terrain – down towards 5:10 min/km for the 116 km.

Long, unforked day for the women

The women’s relay is a 5 leg relay as always – run in daylight with start at 14:30 CET. The first leg is 7.3 km forked, followed by two forked legs (6.0 km and 7.2 km). Then the 4th leg might be decisive even if it is unforked; 10.5 km is a long leg in the women’s class with expected winning time of 63 minutes. The character of the straight leg is thus completely changed compared to previous years. Now it includes long legs and important route choices where time can be gained. The last leg is a few kilometers shorter with 8.6 km. Expected time for the winners finishing is at 18:29.

See more comment and analysis at

http://news.worldofo.com/2015/05/08/10mila-2015-all-you-need-to-know/