Swedish Relay Champs near Halmstad, Halland.
First of all, Linné's team 1 (Johan Höij, Mats Troeng, Mattias Millinger, Jan Troeng) WON!!!! Johan came in with the leaders on leg 1, Mats dominated on leg 2, giving Mattias a 7-minute lead, and then Mattias and Jan held on to win by about 4 minutes. Fantastic result! Here is the article in Uppsala Nya Tidning:
http://www2.unt.se/avd/1,1786,MC=4-AV_ID=655670,00...
For Linné's team 4, things did not go quite as well. Liutas started us off with a very good 1st leg, exchanging to me in 33rd place. I proceeded to run about 300 meters before falling in a muddy swamp, smacking my knee hard on a rock, and covering all of myself and the map in mud. By the time I cleaned off enough of the map to be able to see anything at all, a bunch of teams had already passed me. My knee hurt, so I had to walk for a while, and finally started running again close to the 1st control. Ended up losing 4 minutes and 16 (!!) places on that leg. Things went better after that. The knee loosened up, and I started feeling pretty good. Then, when crossing a waist-deep river I had a chance to wash off my map, so I could actually see where we were headed. Settled into a nice pace and started hitting controls and passing other teams. Things went well and I was having a lot of fun until the spectator control, after which the wheels came off again. I must have been more tired than I thought, because I managed to miss 5 of the last 9 controls, losing over 5 minutes in the process. Very frustrating, because the first half of the course (except the debacle on 1) was about the best I'd felt running and orienteering all fall. Ended up exchanging to Björn in 45th place, which is where he and Patrick kept us with two solid runs.
Here are the winsplits for my forking (over all 4 legs of the relay):
http://85.89.72.58/winsplits/online/sv/default.asp...
And here are plain old results, with Linné teams in 1st, 16th, 34th, and 45th:
http://toolbox.svenskidrott.se/Downloads/104100/do...
By the way, the terrain here was very different from what we have Uppsala: a lot more climb, a lot of stuff underfoot, and very wet on the ground. Reminded me a bit of West Point maps, actually.