Training Log Archive: Arlaharen

Rank: 15/84, +7'24"
Oringen E5, chasing start at pos 15, finished as 13.
I got a bad route to the 2nd control and lost 45". During the course I made a couple of smaller mistakes no real big ones but around 30"-1'. Quite satisfied with the race overall, but could have been more aggressive towards the end of the course.

Results:
http://85.89.72.58/winsplits/online/sv/default.asp...

Map with route:

Rank: 18/88, +8'21"
Oringen E4
Got of to a bad start by missing second (1') and then another small mistake on 3rd (20"). This continued for the first half of the course with approximately another 4' of mistakes. I managed to stay a bit focused on the second part of the course but made 2 mistakes costing about 1' each. The overall placing on the competitions suggests that the speed was high enough but in the zone of the control I made all the mistakes. Most of the controls where I lost time were located in areas with poor visibility. Just don't do well with that types of controls.

Results:
http://85.89.72.58/winsplits/online/sv/default.asp...

Map with route:
http://greyhound.no-ip.org/photo/photo.php?path=Ra...

Rank: 19/98, +3'05"
Oringen E3
Tried to take it easy from start to get some flow in the orienteering. Managed to miss the obvious path route to 1st (lost maybe 20"). Then I got second and only a minor mistake on 3rd (10"). Got 4th ok and 5. On the long route to 6th I once again missed an path leading nicely into the control area and lost some time (20-30"). But the controls were where I expected them and I got nice flow with the orienteering. On the way to the 13th control I made a directional error and ended up looking for the control too early on the slope.This was the only real control mistake and cost me maybe 45". Made an route error on the way to the 14th control (maybe a bit stressed from the mistake on 13th) and had to climb some extra contours and lost at least 30". Overall quite good middle distance race for being me. I usually make to many control mistakes but today only one real mistake.

Results:
http://85.89.72.58/winsplits/online/sv/default.asp...

Map with route:
http://greyhound.no-ip.org/photo/photo.php?path=Ra...

Rank: 15/90, +5'30"
Oringen E2
Got a really bad start. lost the direction a bit to 1st and made 1' mistake. Good orienteering towards 2nd but another mistake in the final part cost me 30". On the way to 3rd something strange happened. I missed a path and ended up going south instead of north in a green area. Finally found my positition but had lost at least 3'. On the way to the 5th control I caught up with Håkan Eriksson who started 4' after me. We took different route choices (he took the tight one) but I got the control good and caught up with him at the 7th control again. We pretty much saw each other from the 11th control to the finish and at the 14th control we caught up a small group inclyding Jonas Engström who started 2' after me. He had a tail consisting of 3 runners. I passed Jonas on the way to the 21st control and from there to the finish I had quite a good flow. I managed to leave the others on the way to the 24th control and I was 1' before them to the finish. So at least a good finish to the race.

Results:
http://85.89.72.58/winsplits/online/sv/default.asp...

Map with route:
http://greyhound.no-ip.org/photo/photo.php?path=Ra...

Rank: 40/101, +8'28"
Oringen E1
Got of to a good start and a nice flow. Took the wrong route on the long leg to the 5th control (lost 1') but that was pretty hard to guess before running the leg. Did a silly routemistake to the 9th control which could have cost me about 20'-30'. On the way to the 11th control I lost concentration for only a couple of seconds (slipped with the foot and sprained it only slightly) I then misread the terrain and ended up in the wrong depression. I took my 5' to sort it out. After that a bit stressed and no nice flow in the orieentering. Made another 4 smaller mistakes (10'-30') on the final 8 controls.

Results:
http://85.89.72.58/winsplits/online/sv/default.asp...

Map with route:
http://greyhound.no-ip.org/photo/photo.php?path=Ra...

Event: O-Ringen
 

Easy run before O-ringen together with my brother. He got very tired the last 30' so we had to lower the pace a bit in the end.