A loop around #3, where the yellow 'channel' wasn't very clear or easy to recognize.
Then punched at the wrong control on #7 🙁
Next stop is firmaliiga on Tuesday.
Itärastit Latokaski - fail
Tag: latokaski
Itärastit Latokaski, B 5km
Warm +18C. Quite easy course/map.
#4 is the best split (top-ten), about 2/3rds along paths and then up the hill to the control. #9 is the worst split, didn't find a clear path through the field and the lack of fitness sets in towards the end of the course. 20th out of about 85 overall.
Itärastit Latokaski
1, 2, 3 OKish, then too slowly and carefully down the hill from #3 towards #4 - maybe directly south avoiding the slow green-dashed area would have been better. A little too much west out on the road after #5. BIG loop and slow walking around #7 - and then while being upset about this mistake pretty bad directions on both #10 and #11.
Espoorastit Latokaski
Maybe a bit straighter to #1 would have been better? Then a slow S-bend avoiding the wet(?) bit between #1 and #2, which was very slow. Similarly straighter out of #2 towards #3 would have been faster.
Surprisingly #4 is the best split - probably because someone else was in front of me until just before the control...
The route choice down the hill from #4 towards #5 was not fast, and I had to backtrack and look for a place to cross the stream. Rounding the swamp to the north would have been an option too. Then close to the control I climb the slope to slightly the wrong cliff loosing a little time.
#7 through to the finish are all quite straightforward. Just after #7 I almost hold the map 180-degrees the wrong way but quickly correct my mistake. Before #9 I follow someone else onto the yellow field when staying on the path would have been better.