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Saturday Oct 6, 2007 #
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Latvian long-O ("marathon") championships, Raiskums, Latvia. I was ready to go to Europe to avoid orienteering long distance (in Highlander) but it was not meant to be - my brother has enrolled me for the Long-O chmps on Saturday.
Running warm up/down 6:00 [1]
shoes: Falcon
Warm-up before the marathon champs.
Orienteering race 2:55:45 [3] *** 16.1 km (10:55 / km) +800m 8:45 / km
spiked:24/34c shoes: Falcon
Latvian marathon-O champs with mass start. A very nice day for running. I ran H21A thinking that I would be able to be close to the leaders. Not so, mistakes of 20+ minutes plus a 4 minute route choice error and my bad shape put me 41 minutes back from the winning time. The fact that I ran completely alone for 90% of the race did not help either. Cannot say that I loved the map - 10 minutes of my mistakes I will blame on that. Otherwise it was quite a challenging test of orienteering skills.