Group start for 10th leg. Good navigating for #1, but I was too slow in start speed up. So there was too much people ahead of me on the way to second. For third I tried stupid routechoice that I could overtake more people but I lost probably 15 seconds there. 3-4 was mountain climbing leg and I had no hurry anymore.. Good navigating on southern more technical part and I had no difficulties there. After #9 there was map exchange. Everybody got the same map, so it ment it was pipe leg for the last kilometers. Just before 10th some woman overtook me and my concentration disappered for few seconds. I didn't exactly know where we was. Instead of following this woman, I decided to follow friendship town's (Västerås) team but that was empty lottery ticket. Soon I realised where we was but "woman" had disapperead to horizont. After 30-45 sec mistake I punched on #10 as last man of long line and I stayed there to the finish line. The pace was perfect for me and we overtook many tired orienteers on last kilometers.
My position was 36th in group start and I lost less than minute for 25th ("one of our line guys"). I think I filled up my place in the team as planned. The woman ended up to be Eva Jurenikova and I forgive myself the loss for her. In the starting line I wished that I would stay in Ari Anjala's pace but he was 3 minutes faster. That's not that forgivable.. But after all, ok run and I enjoyed every meter of it.
REITTI