10Mila - Leg 4 (The Long Night): We had two heavy losses before start (David Andersson - Injured and Peter Arnesson - Sick) which made us rearrange the second team quite a bit.
Leg | Length | Runner |
1 | 14.3km | Matjaz Stanfel |
2 | 8.2km | Anders Åkerman |
3 | 13.9km | Martin Hederskog |
4 | 17.5km | Jonas Bäckström |
5 | 9.7km | Lars Åkerman |
6 | 9.8km | Jonas Birgersson |
7 | 6.8km | Andrej Subat |
8 | 13.3km | Ian Lawford |
9 | 9.0km | Håkan Eriksson |
10 | 17.7km | Stefan Jonsson |
Felt on the warm up that my legs weren't with me today. Matjaz started out really good on the first leg punching first on several controls, made a 1min error in the end and changed over to Anders as 56th, +1.35min. Anders did a solid performance caching some teams but lost some time (48th, +4.55min). Martin didn't have the best of days, lost a lot of time and places (103, +32:08). I went out a bit to fast which i had to pay for in the end + made a lot of mistakes:
#1 - 20s (Bad direction out from the startpoint)
#2 - 40s (The forest got really dense just before the control, ran to far north)
#3 - 1min (Stupid mistake, bad direction, ran to fast)
#7 - 1.30min (Followed two guys that I had caught and ran very stupid out to the bridge crossing, took the command but ran a bit wobbly in the middle).
#10 - ~4min (Underestimated how diffuse the terrain was close to the control, got totally lost and the four guys following me weren't reading the map)
Caught a big pack of ~40 runners that had passed us on #10 and decided to take the command right away. Ran in front of the group half the way to #17 where my stomach started to rebell and I had to "stop". The funny thing was that non of the 40+ runners behind me was reading the map and they all stopped when I did. Had to tell them to continue. Could still see them far away across the marsh once I was done (~1.30min), and managed to catch them and punched as #2 in the pack at #19 where they made a 20s mistake. Took the lead again from #20 and ran solid in to the finish. Got passed by a few runners on the last three easy control when i couldn't keep the speed up.
We finished at 81th place which was a new club record for the second team. Our goal of top 60 could have been within reach if me and martin would have done two normal performances :)
The first team finished as 16th after way to many mistakes, quite far from the goal of top 5.
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