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Iltarastit, Solvalla

#12 OK
#25 should have run straight north into the control circle from the cliff, instead veered right and circled round
#18 felt OKish but the descent down the steep cliff was apparently slow and the split isn't great.
#8-#26 OK
#27 straight over the swamp would probably have been faster
#10 drifted into the swamp close to #29, maybe +1 min there. After I saw #29 I ran too much north and going down the hill didn't know at which cliff I was. Found #10 mostly because of other runners.. Worst split.
#23-#22-#11-F Some orienteering to reach the road before #23 but then just mainly running strength required. Not much lost on the three last legs 🙂

Iltarastit, Pirttibacka

Quite tired legs today...
#1-#2-#3 OK with a bit conservative route to #3
#4 the plan was to run west until I see the blue wet area and then turn left for the control. But the swamp never appeared and this required some re-location + searching.
#5-#6 OK
#7 difficult control in a very detailed area.
#8 probably distracted by the extra time spent at #7 I also made a mess out of #8...
#9-#10-#11-#12-#13-F OK but not great.

Iltarastit, Svedängen

This is the last Monday event for this year. A few more weeks of the season remain, but the events move to Sunday in search of more daylight.

They are building a new car-tunnel at paloheinä, so a few places were turned upside down (not shown on the map..).

Iltarastit, Velskola

#3-#4 OK
#12 got a bit wet at the swamp which would have been better to go around, + 1 min.
#6 OK
#11 difficult hilly area where I headed for the wrong cliff at first, +3 min.
#14-#15-#16 OK
#17 was unsure on how high up the hill the control should be. +30s.

Iltarastit, Kattilajärvi

OK orienteering but not that fast running. Warm weather and hilly terrain. Maybe a bit surprisingly the big detour from 4->16 using roads and paths worked out OK since it was my second best split-time in terms of placing.

Iltarastit, Pirttibacka

Problems on two out of the eleven controls yesterday. These also show up as the worst placings in the split times.

The #3-#4 (17-18 on the map) leg should have been a straightforward run along paths. However I took a short-cut from the path too soon and crossed about 1/3rd of the leg through the woods. Then right inside the control circle I ran past the control almost to the road south of it before returning. The blue line shows the path I should have taken.

On the very last control (14 on the map) it would have been clearly faster to return to the road (green line) and not go straighter through the light-green (thick) area.

Iltarastit, Solvalla

Big mistake on #10. Should have run straight south, and navigated after the path based on this assumption. Then didn't do a very good job of promptly correcting the mistake and getting back "on the map" again.

The night of Jämsä-Jukola awaits next Saturday/Sunday.

Iltarastit, Pirttibacka

6.5.2013, Pirttibacka. This should have been a familiar map... but made bigger mistakes on three out of twelve legs. (numbers refer to the control-codes on the map)
#30 Aaargh! How is it possible to start towards the first control at 90-degrees to the right direction??
#6 wanted to run along the path and find the less steep opening in the hill (blue-line). Didn't run far enough and instead circled around #19
#14 my route is direct but the second half is slow going through an area with many details. The blue line probably shows a route which is easier and more fool-proof to implement.

Iltarastit, Luk

#15-#16 a long pause to read the map on top of the first hill
#16-#17 a small correction to the south just before the control
#18 had a reasonable plan and executed it OK.
#19 again a long pause to read the map
#20 found the swamp instead of the lake 🙁 didn't have a good plan when leaving #19
#21 again poor planning running up/down hills instead of around them.

Iltarastit, Herttonäs

Still a lot of snow out there...