Rank: 4/18, +2'10"
Ramunderdubbeln long distance
The terrain was nice as yesterday, but the map did not satisfy me. The print was awful and hardly readable in 1:15k in the detailed areas and I noticed afterwards that north was not quite towards the top of the map but at an angle which might explain why I ran constantly a bit of course on the longer routes :(
I got of quite ok to first but quickly got into problems with reading the fine details on the short leg to 2nd and made a 30" mistake. After that I ran in control until control 5. On the longer route to the 6th control I drifted of to the right and was forced to run some 300 meters extra and lost around 1'. I then at the control focused on finding the hill before the control which was impossible since it was only a help curve but didn't show in the terrible print. Passed the control and had to turn back and lost 1'.
Got on the wrong side of a hill towards the 7th control and got a bit nervous and lost 30".
On the way to the 8th control I first was thinking about the road but decided that it should be faster straight through and headed off. It felt like I was drifting off to the left and I decided to turn back into the correct heading. This was way wrong and I stopped dead when I saw a house and a road. After some contemplation I found myself and got the control. 2' got lost in my attempt to take the fastest route choice. Better safe than sorry next time :(
The next legs went ok and I was starting to get frustrated with the fact that the course setter constantly used misleading areas as a straight ahead route choice when one should have used a road or field around.
Really didn't make any mistakes on the last half of the course. Just ran through the course...
Running felt a lot easier than yesterday and I hope some nice interval training during next week will do the trick :)
Results:
http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/sv/default.a...
Map with route:
http://fpettersson.se/index.php?id=40