Training Log Archive: Miikka

What a great Jukola once again. This was my first time on leg 2, so the darkest leg and I needed my headlamp all the time. In the beginning it was really dark, but we got more light towards the end. This year there was more than 1 K from the start to the K point, so a lot of running. I took the wrong control first and made another mistake when going to the right control and lost about five minutes there. Then the orienteering started to work. There were a lot of lines and I hadn't enough power to start by-passing the line. So, at some points, the pace was quite low for me, but that was maybe a good thing as well, when I had power to the end. I made some small mistakes but nothing special until to the second last control. My thoughts were in the finish already and couldn't find the cliff in the green area and lost maybe four minutes there. I'm overall happy with my run, I took also our team up for 104 positions. My night route.

Event: Jukola 2012
 

Preparing myself for Jukola and testing the middle course for the July sprint.

C • Good luck! 2

To the start and later back home and checked one control point for the easiest course.

A terrible run in this half rocky, half outdated map. The course was almost too hard for local meets, pros and older guys probably liked this, I didn't. The only hope is that I cannot be so bad two times in row and the next one is Jukola.