Orienteering race 56:35 [5] 4.18 km (13:32 / km) +204m 10:53 / km
Pentecoste Relay, 7-persons' team. A beautiful woods in the Valais, quite high. I was on the 5th leg with all the young people that are running SO fast! But sometimes they don't find things quite that easily. I thought it was quite a difficult course, very steep in spots with lots of cliffs, big rocks and blueberry bushes. I can't say that I made a mistake but in comparison to anybody being born around 2008 or younger, I felt like a hippo in the the woods. But I was happy non-the-less and the fastest from anybody born before 1963!
I drizzled for most of the way and started to rain more heavily when I finished. There were over 70 teams all camping in a beautiful meadow with no amenities but fires and little sleep.
The first two legs start at 09:20 pm into the dark and the 3rd leg starts in the morning at 07:30 plus the combined time of the first 2. There was a good mix of elite runners, lots of juniors and families but only few seniors as they don't seem to want to camp in the wild anymore.