Orienteering race 1:58:30 [4] 15.5 km (7:39 / km) +177m 7:14 / km
shoes: VJ Bold
2nd leg in our youth team at 10Mila.
Had to wait quite a long time for the change over from the young first leg runner. I expected him to come back earlier and to have some people around to run with.
My race was a very lonely one. Just me and the owls at 10mila ;-) Saw some people crossing my routes, passed some runners but did all the orienteering on my own. Felt surprisingly good and chose secure routes that fit me during night. Everything was perfect until that little stone in the green in the darkest night should be found! :-D tried to attack the control a several times and after some couple of minutes I managed spike it perfectly. That was the only place in the forest where I saw some other runners, all circling around and asking for #80. But of course no-one told when they found that control. Instead they sneaked out of the green - so did I :-D
Later I struggled to find #118. Think I was really running in circles around that control. Need to check my gps. But after passing that hunting tower (they were not mapped) so many times and then finding the control close to it, I know I was close to that stone all the time.
Lost maybe about 10min in total on searching these two controls.
Talked to Marta in the ICE cold shower( I was looking forward to some much. :D ) afterwards and she also searched exactly these two controls. Must have been something wrong with them ;-)
-11 places and a very nice experience. I want to run 10mila at night again. Next time maybe the first leg so that I have more people around me who can lead me to the controls ;-)