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Round winners – June 2024 (Round #168)

Congratulations to the winners of round June 2024: Király from Skåne took Gold while setting a new round points record of 2 873 119 points, uppuppuppner from Västra Götaland added a Silver to his previous Bronze (next time Gold?) and ChilliFarmer from Scotland ended up on third place for the second time. Well done mates!

Upcoming events

If you are organizing an open event, don't forget to write to insider@turfgame.com a couple of months in advance to get the information about your event into the news letter :)

SåsTurf, Alingsås, 10th of August

For the first time there will be an Open Turf event in Alingsås, Sweden. There will be a foot, bike and a water heat followed by an outdoor BBQ (everyone brings their own food and drink). Full details HERE (only in Swedish). The meeting place for the event will be near Mjörnvallen in Alingsås between the zones Mjörn and KongoBridge.

Skåne Open, 24th of August

Participation will give you the event medal. You can read more about it HERE.

Bonanza 2024 on the 14th of September in Enköping

The invitation to this much awaited Event is being crafted by the Bonanza-comittee. Any day now it will be time to sign up! I know everyone has already penciled in the 14th of September in their calendar, but it is not official until you have signed up. Be patient, it is coming!

Turf Ultimate Region Fight 2024

MaXi is once again organising the annual multi-region fight in September 2024. Same procedure as last year. Read more about it here:

https://turfportalen.se/event/pre/ultimateregionfight2024

https://turfportalen.se/event/ultimateregionfight2024/rules/en

https://turfportalen.se/event/ultimateregionfight2024/rules/sv

Summer Turf Goals

Summer is here and it is the perfect time to go for those a bit more time-consuming medals, like the Staminatrix, Revisitor or Insomnia. Different medals have different difficulties. Insomnia requires you to more or less stay awake for 24 hours since you have to take one zone every hour. You can get some sleep by taking the zones just before and just after the hour, then go to bed and set the alarm for the following hour. Like take 1 02.55 am, take 2 03.05 am, then sleep til take 3 at 04.55. This requires plenty of zones close to where you live. Or you can just soldier thru all the 24 hours and then go home to sleep!

One turfer in Västerås finally decided the conditions were right to go for a Staminatrix in June. Here is a shortened version of the story he submitted to Turf Insider:

"My name is Mattias Persson, turfnick mattiasp74. I have been thinking of attempting to go for the Staminatrix since I started. The conditions had to be the following: 1. Summertime with maximum sun time. 2. Stable weather. No temperatures over 25 Celsius or rainy becauce I want my mobile on the from of the bike 3. Free time. Be at home or at a place were there was a lot of zones.

During midsummer of 2024 these conditions matched. I went to bed at 19 and set the alarm at 00:10 just so i could start and finish the same day, but i could not sleep so i went up and started while the sun was still up. The time was 21:36:03 according to warded when I started up on Midsummer Eve.

My plan was pretty much reliant on geography. The city of Västerås has many hills with a lot up and downs and the river Svartån crosses the city so I had to take that into account. I also had to plan my rest and recharge of the phone.

Here are some tips for you who want to try it. Do this when the night is the shortest so that you can avoid having lights on to much. Be rested before you start. Plan your stops. Both you and the cell phone need to recharge. Power batteries take longer to charge. Remember that a long distance race like Vasaloppet have controls every 10 km were they offer food and drink. According to warded I travelled around 125 km, but this is not included distance from my home to the start and finish or the route I took. I might have travled 135 km in total. Bring a lot of water. I filled my water bottle three times becauce I drank so much. You will get thoughts about quitting, especially during the dark hours. Push them away! And last but not least, have fun while you do this."

It took Mattias four sessions with "food and re-charging the phone" breaks in-between, with both a 50 k and a 75 k Roundpointer medal and Greed-150 on the way to the Staminatrix, lots of help from other turfers, so he could take the same zones again and again.

Rymprak from Uppsala decided to go for another medal that can be hard depending on where you live: Revisitor.

"Depending on where you live and turf, it is easier or harder to win certain medals. Taking Revisitor has felt boring and close to impossible as central Uppsala and central Stockholm are my main Turf areas. After more than 5 years of turfing, I have not been able to find the right time.

This round, the medal suddenly felt possible to take. I was going to spend a week at a folk high school in Skurup in southern Skåne, which is a place with low activity and about 60 zones. The first evening I took almost all of the town's 60 zones in just under 30 kms of biking. On the second night, 50 zones were easily taken and the medal appeared i the app. Now I'm happy and satisfied that the medal has been taken and that it's only a medal you take once!"

Personally I still have not taken the Insomnia medal, maybe it will happen this summer or maybe it won't ;) It has been on the to-do-list the last five summers, but other things were prioritized.

Turf Picture of the Month

This months Turf Picture is of the zone Rälsbron taken by Fafng:

If you have a Zone picture you want featured as Turf Picture of the Month, send it to insider@turfgame.com. Please include your Turf nick for recognition!

Turfa lugnt/Safe turfing!

//Munin