Orienteering race 1:11:00 [5] 10.5 km (6:46 / km)
ahr:173 max:183
SM relay. I was running 3rd leg for the IFK Lidingo team with Petter Haraldson, Casper Giding and Emil Lauri. Petter got us of to a great start, coming back with the leaders. Casper ran pretty good too, setting me out in 4th place, a long way behind 1st but not far behind 2nd and 3rd (but also with a big group just behind). I started really badly, missing the first control, and struggling a bit for the next couple. By the first radio control, I had dropped about 2 minutes, and down to 9th place. Then I pulled my finger out and started orienteering properly. There was a really long leg to the 5th control and I nailed that. A couple of controls later I could see the pack up to 2nd place, and I managed to catch them all just before the spectator control. I ran to the wrong gaffle, and then had to catch them all again, but after the run through the assmebly field, I had a really good race. Of the pack of roughly 9 or 10 athletes, a couple of us pulled away, and stretched out quite a gap to the others. The last part of the course was really hilly, and accentuated the gaps. At the end I was running with guys from Ulricehamns and IHPK, and although the IHPK guy pulled away at the end, I got a bit of a gap to Ulricehamns and came in in 3rd place.
I handed over the Emil, and at that point we could have ended up anywhere between 2nd (OK Linne were a long way in front) and 20th. Emil didn't have a great day in the office and we finished 8th, about 3 minutes from the medals. Still, my first placing in a Swedish Champs, and my first prize in Sweden.