Mixed sprint relay - very exciting - so many people in and around the arena spectating. Will write up when I know more about my run! Felt okay, slow up the hills but okay.
Turns out I was quite okay unless I wasn’t. Lost a lot of time on three major routechoices. The first was to control 1, really struggled to get into the map and then by the time I'd chosen a route I'd then no clue where I was. Was also pretty weird starting with a big crowd and lots of spectators on the course, very cool though (10-15s). Next was to control 7 where I possibly took the wrong route but definitely struggled to get the pace going well. Lost a lot of time through the execution of this route, at the end through the forest (10s). The other was to number 9. Lose about 25s here down to a pretty rouge route. Was the only one to choose this....... Shoulda been the alarm bells ringing but at this point not many people around!! Keeping to the path would have been much quicker! Hard to know though with the area being on a massive dirty slope. A third dimension that usually isn’t thought about much in sprint.
Pretty happy with the second half of my course, finally was able to boost around with some people and that increased my pace which was nice to see. Bit of head to head action and from 9 running v well (I think the fastest GB leg 2 split from there to the finish!!). So some decent positives and a lot more learning. Would be good to put some of this learning into practice some time. Slow start, strong finish. Fun day out.
Map (I’m GBR 3)
http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/20180510SR_2_M/