orienteering 1:25:00 [5] 10.0 km (8:30 / km)
Jukola - leg 6
started around half parst five in the morning. felt fine if a little cold and not nervous but... excited perhaps...
anyway, don't have splits... first leg i arsed up completely... right route but veered left at one point, distraccted by elephant tracks and the desire to run fast. Stupid... lack of experience... probably lost fiveminutes there alone... once i copped the mistake the rest of the leg was easy.
then, apart from a few navigational errors close to controls, and one small error again trying to run too fast, there was one whopper -
got caught by leg 7 runners at a control and ran with them on a longish leg towards the next one... no real problems staying in touch with them. one guy forked left slightly and i continued with the others up a parallel spur... knew i was on the wrong one but continued and 'made it fit'
Stupidity... lack of experience... grrr...
came back to find no map to pass on to Matthias... so no results for me...
over 10 minutes of mistakes easily... not good...