Training Log Archive: BorisGr

Warm-up, plus a bit of a cool-down with Kat.

District relay champs, combined for Uppland and Stockholm, except that Stockholm's teams had four legs, and ours only had three. You'd think that after 17 years of orienteering, I would know that it's actually good to look at your map during a mass start race. Apparently not. I ran the first leg and, as usual, right from the start, everyone took off, including me. Ran as hard as I could to stay with the pack, meaning perhaps just two glances at the map during the very long first leg. One more glance would have been nice. Came to the wrong fork's control, then the other fork's, still not mine. Immediately realized where I was and took off for my control. Found it, losing probably 1.5 minutes but, more importantly, also losing the pack. Hit #2 just fine, catching up to a few guys, and then - repeated by idiocy from #1 going to #3!!! Again didn't look at the map enough and came to the wrong fork. This time, a bigger mistake - I overran and had to go back along a rocky hillside. Probably up to 3 minutes lost, and the run already ruined. Finally started orienteering by myself after this, and things went better, but there is now way I could make up time on the leaders. Finished over 15 (!!) minutes behind Mats, who exchanged in the lead. The rest of my team didn't have its best day either, and we finished as the 6th Linné team and 8th overall in Uppland. First four teams were from Linné.
Results: http://www.canit.se/sigtunaok/ResultatUppl/Klasser...
Map: http://files.myopera.com/borisgr/albums/264633/IMG...

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