Orienteer Pod

Episode 94 is the Tibet tapes. Magnus and Tim finally made it to the Park World Tour races in Tibet, just five days late, after a permit saga that ended with a man in a dark coat handing over their papers in a Beijing hotel lobby, taking a photo of them and running off. Ralph, sick at home in Oslo, delivers the verdict: omnishambles.
- Five days of visa limbo in Beijing, a legendary Volvo car-hire guy with a printer, and the airport manager we never got to meet
- Lhasa at 3,600 m: Tim on the hotel oxygen machine, Magnus racing Tomas Krivda up a 4,900 m peak for a Coke, and two yak chases
- Magnus races with the flu: 4th and 3rd and one second off Yannick Michiels. Tim walked, max heart rate 119, doctor's orders
- Chili chicken feet and getting altitude-mocked on the train to Nyingchi
- The dilemma returns: would you orienteer in handcuffs or boxing gloves? One host is still furious
Plus Magnus's 80 kg bench saga, Ralph learning to 'turn his legs on', a Yeti jumper, the DM mailbox and, eventually, the Oceania Champs results.
Featuring Tomas Krivda, Yannick Michiels, Kasper Fosser, Gustav Bergman, Aston Key, Lara Molloy and Joseph Lynch. Events: Park World Tour Tibet (Lhasa and Nyingchi), Oceania Championships, the China gold WRE and Blodslitet.

Episode 93 is the very late EOC recap, and only two of the boys made it. Tim is 'busy in his summer house', Magnus is jet-lagged from Tibet with internet that cuts out right when Ralph's times come up, and Ralph opens himself up to age abuse by admitting he can no longer read a 1:15,000 map. Magnus also says Ralph's 1:52 long-distance time would be 'pretty slow for a half'.
- Ralph's EOC Lithuania: a cramping long, 33rd in the middle after not being able to run ten days earlier, and a first leg with all 'the old boys'
- Kasper Fosser's 94-second middle masterclass, Tove's long-distance win and Hanna Lundberg's first title
- The relays: Switzerland's 24-year age gap with Daniel Hubmann at 43, and Tomas Krivda's route around the lake that left the Czech team with hands on heads
- Miika Kirmula's double middle finger explained, plus his '1 in 278' start-draw stats, and a Hubmann–Lysell prank war with potatoes, a buried bag and a spade.
Athletes and events: Kasper Fosser, Fabian Aebersold, Viktor Svensk, Tove Alexandersson, Simona Aebersold, Hanna Lundberg, Pia Young Vik, Venla Harju, Tomas Krivda, Anton Johansson, Emil Svensk, Daniel Hubmann, Jerker Lysell, Gustav Bergman, Miika Kirmula, Natalia Gemperle. European Orienteering Championships 2026 (Lithuania), the World Cup final standings and 25manna.

We get an update from Tim after last week’s hospital visit, then we get into Ralph’s Norwegian Champs results, a lingering leg issue, and the upcoming European Champs in Lithuania. Plus Tibet plans, heat-training experiments, Eventor rants, and much more.

Episode 91 opens with an unexpected call from Tim… from the hospital. We get the hospital room tour, some food complaints, and the usual banter before Ralph takes over as the main character with his Lithuania stories.

We are back after the summer break and we immediately go off-topic with microwave beans, work lunches and company buffets. Then we finally get to the World Cup in Czech: Ralph’s return to the forest after sickness, the fake last-control box, the B-final-to-A-final qualification debate, middle vs long specialists, and a strong middle-distance result. Plus Tim’s triathlon chocolate, Daniel Hubmann’s best-worst Czech result, and Ralph heading to Lithuania.