Training Log Archive: O Joy

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D50A at Viitapohja. More rocks on this map and a harder course. C2 shouldn't have been that hard but the mapped open forest ended up being a huge swath of logged "open with scattered trees" which in Finnish, means, avoid this area!. Didn't learn that elephant tracks on mossy, rocky ground look different than established trails soon enough. I spent way too long getting to C2 and ended up finding it when just "checking out" the number of that control over there. C3 was fine with good handrails. C4 and C5 were hard because of compass problems, too many boulders and "bare" rock (lichen covered rock), and a mapped stream that was tiny. C6 was fine and C7 was lucky (again elephant tracks aren't trails), took the safe route to C8 down the very steep hill to the road and then back in and up the hill directly to the control, and had to rescue myself to C9 because the trail I was following that didn't really make sense was an elephant trail. Over to and down the small trail to C10 while being over run by JWOC Middle B and C runners (we shouldn't have been out there at the same time). Much slower than Monday and dropping off the bottom :-(