GPS: 5.8km, +120m
Worst... race... ever...
Instead of spiked controls, speaking of boomed controls is much more eloquent: 4 major booms on the first 8 controls. After a first nice and rather easy control, I boomed at 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th controls, each time getting worse and worse, to the point where I would stand in the forest, completely lost, without a single clue of where I lost map contact, and doubting everything, including the map and the compass.
Not sure exactly what leads to this disaster, except perhaps a combination of too high self-confidence after past weeks success, very low visibility in forest due to new foliage, which I am not really accustomed to, and perhaps fatigue of the past week of work. During the race it was clearly a gross failure to recognize my mistakes and to adapt my o'technique to the terrain and map at hand. Plus, didnt have much of pleasure with the terrain, which I found too green, and the course layout, which I found angular, adding too much "accidental" complexity to the "essential" complexity of the terrain (to speak in SE terms)
After the 8th control I pretty much jogged around the course, and still managed to do some slight mistakes.
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