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Saturday Jun 16, 2012 #
1 PM
Orienteering 25:00 [1] 2.5 mi (10:00 / mi)
Easy run out on the model map.
10 PM
Running warm up/down 15:00 [1] 2.0 mi (7:30 / mi)
Easy warm up - lots of excitement and butterflies.
Orienteering 1:32:58 [5] 9.0 mi (10:20 / mi)
Jukola leg 1. So much fun. 1k run out was crazy and tried to make up as many places as possible (started 1090 and got to the first camera control 27 minutes into teh race in 232). I basically oscillated aound this number - gaining places and then missing some.
I made 2 large errors (of about 3 minutes) and had one amazing moment of orienteering nirvana. The largest miss was where I was doing my own thing and rejoined a pack just after (unbeknonst to me) they had punched my control. They were all running strongly so I assumed they had not reached the control yet - unfortunately not. This led to 2 minutes of me doing my best salamon impression - running upstream in thick and steep forest of a never ending pack of runners.
My moment of nirvana was where I punched a control and stuck to my bearing and ran 400m across the terrain totally by myself. Felt in total control and everything fitted perfectly. I punched the control and a whole massive pack of about 50 people were running back to me - they had all missed it.
Felt pretty so-so about my final finishing position - 235 (and 16 minutes back) but at least it gave Nails and OJ some runners to go through. Top 100 would have been possible but I don't think any higher based on the starting position.
Great fun and a great trip to Finland with team SYO who collectively had more good runs than bad.
I made 2 large errors (of about 3 minutes) and had one amazing moment of orienteering nirvana. The largest miss was where I was doing my own thing and rejoined a pack just after (unbeknonst to me) they had punched my control. They were all running strongly so I assumed they had not reached the control yet - unfortunately not. This led to 2 minutes of me doing my best salamon impression - running upstream in thick and steep forest of a never ending pack of runners.
My moment of nirvana was where I punched a control and stuck to my bearing and ran 400m across the terrain totally by myself. Felt in total control and everything fitted perfectly. I punched the control and a whole massive pack of about 50 people were running back to me - they had all missed it.
Felt pretty so-so about my final finishing position - 235 (and 16 minutes back) but at least it gave Nails and OJ some runners to go through. Top 100 would have been possible but I don't think any higher based on the starting position.
Great fun and a great trip to Finland with team SYO who collectively had more good runs than bad.