Orienteering race (Forest) 1:55:09 [3] 9.1 km (12:39 / km)
Summer Series Event No. 4 Vendelso (9/12)
Quickly looked at the event details - saw the 9.1km (a bit long for a Summer Series event) and assumed the course would be going through the really fast bits of the map and it would take me around 60mins. However it was in a completely different part of the forest I was expecting it to be, hilly, bushy and very rocky in places. Plus I threw away 15mins in just the first third of the course. Unsurprisingly the apple and kiwi I had at 16:00 didn't really support me for the last half hour.
A third of the A course entrants retired and I felt like it but just had to complete it. It wasn't all sexy forest but most was really enjoyable and raining hard at times which for me, now I have a plentiful stock of lenses, only adds to the excitement! A nice new 1:5000 map as well with lots of extra detail similar to what the Hellas people have done over in Paradise.