Cloudy and a bit windy but fairly warm (this being November already..)
Fairly relaxed pace with no major mistakes.
Tag: solvalla
Iltarastit Solvalla
Only bigger mistake towards the end on #20 crossing the swamp and then correcting right - maybe +1min.
Otherwise quite ok in about +12C and sunshine.
Kiintorastit Solvalla
Another run on the Solvalla map with fixed controls. Last one was in April.
Problems on the second control (#50) where at first I didn't know exactly where on the dashed path I had come down from the hill, and then inside the control circle I looked for stones north up the hill when the control-stone was lower down in the forest.
Solvalla kiintorastit, 5km
Still snow on the ground for maybe 30% of the route. Quite wet and soft.
Mostly ok but just inside the #32 control circle we somehow lost faith and did a loop in the wrong direction.
Iltarastit, Solvalla
Nice going on four out of eight legs of the course.
Out of #1 I have the wrong direction and loose 2-3minutes probably.
#5 (3 on the map) is a horrible mess where I drift down the correct hill not really knowing where I am - worst split by far 🙁
Firmaliiga 5/2014, Solvalla
The second firmaliiga event this fall, at Solvalla quite close to the first one.
Close to #1 I should have had a better plan - I've just graced the control-circle and then looked in the wrong direction for some random big stone. Around 90 s lost.
#2-#3 quite OK. To #4 my route is probably too zigzaggy - less turns and leaving all the green areas to the left(north) is probably better. To #5 the paths on the left were apparently a bit clearer and faster? To #6 I was too high up the hill and didn't find the path.
#7-F is quite OK again.
Iltarastit Solvalla
Last orienteering run before Jukola - maybe mistakes made now means there are none left in the bag for Jukola?
K-1-2 nothing special. #2 is best split.
3 more north out of #2 would have been less steep downhill, and would have found the road sooner.
4 crazy mistake although I was inside the control circle on 2 or 3 occasions..
5-6-7-8 nothing special
9 split is slow but GPS-trace follows line OKish. Maybe a little south would have been faster.
10-11-12 OKish, but there is no excuse for not running straight along the 11-12 line.
13 came up from the flat "Punjonsuo" a little more left than had planned, but was easily on the map again.
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 🙂
Firmaliiga 2013/5, Solvalla
Flatter terrain compared to last week - easier to keep up the pace on the whole course.
A stupid mistake that cost maybe 2 minutes on #1 - otherwise mostly OK orienteering.
Firmaliiga result 24./58
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.