I went out as I always do on a middle. Take it steady like an hour race, get the navigation right and have energy for a good final push.
This worked pretty well and I was even in the lead after 8 controls because I wasn't making the "trying too hard mistakes".
My first error was at #13 were I drifted right on the final bearing after I had gone head over tit entering the woods. I finally saw my error but it cost me 2 minutes.
I was clean until the circle at #16 where I was a little too far left.
The other error was at #19 where I got pulled away by a few elites to their control.
Clean after that and happy to get into the top 3 for all of these splits as going off steady gave me plenty in the tank at the end.
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I thought at the start of the weekend I might be able to scrape into the top 5 for maybe one of the finals so very happy to do it twice with no injuries.
I'm looking forward now to next weekend to give it some beans at the Danish long champs.