Final stage of POM 2016. A chase-start to end four good days of competitions. Another 14km course which criss-crossed the green and stony hills around the arena. Well, when you have already been in that terrain in earlier stages, it is a lot easier to be smarter and pick the best routes. A lot of running on tracks today, but also some fine moments of navigation, even at 1/15.000°.
After a good warm-up, I was less tired than I expected and could enjoy the course as much as yesterday. Still, I was struggling quite much in one of the control, the 5th one
(+1.30). I had a clear idea from where I was attacking the slope
(from the large re-entrant, over the control), but ended anyway with a parallel mistake, searching for the control in a similar feature under the control ring (southern side). This terrain punishes quickly when you do the things by halves.
ResultsThe area we hadn´t yet visited was probably the most fun part (south), and pretty picturesque as well - a good way to keep a good memory from this edition of POM. Definitively another great vintage!
POM is over. NAOM is next on the program. Always nice to have a series of races to work on competition routines and weaknesses.