Training Log Archive: Miikka

The Jukola is always my main goal of the year like for most of the Finnish orienteers. What a great event it is! This year the area was just 45 minutes drive from my home. It was raining quite heavily on Sat morning, so everything was quite wet and muddy in the competition center. Still, not any major problems. I was running first time for my new club of Kymin Suunnistajat. Without any sleep at 3am I had the 3rd leg and I needed to use the head lap for the first two K's then I turned it off when there was enogh light also for map reading. I had a good run. It was quite easy and wide tracks when I was running. I made three small mistakes, one minute each at the controls #6, #17 and #22. A lot of running in the line, but had also a couple of nice moments when the line made a mistake and I hit the control and passed some 10 people looking for the flag. I'm very happy with my run. I started at the place 982 and finished 909, so catches 73 places. Our team KyS 2 finished at 817 of 1500 teams after seven runners. My Splits and My Route.

Event: Salpa-Jukola 2011
 

The last exercise before the Jukola. When I started my run around the cape Katariina the sun was shining, then a heavy rain shower and when I finished the sun was out again, and I was extremely wet. My run was light and easy, hopefully it will stay until Sunday morning.

The final O training before the Jukola. This map is very challenging, a lot of very steep rocky hills. And the map is not so good. I had some problems with the map on the controls #2 and #3, and then later on the #6, but otherwise a good run, physically it went very well.