Sunday Oct 7 |
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| Event: Hudson Highlander 2007
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Saturday Oct 6 |
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| Latvian long-O ("marathon") championships, Raiskums, Latvia. I was ready to go to Europe to avoid orienteering long distance (in Highlander) but it was not meant to be - my brother has enrolled me for the Long-O chmps on Saturday. |
| Running warm up/down 6:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Falcon |
| Warm-up before the marathon champs. |
| Orienteering race 2:55:45 [3] *** 16.1 km (10:55 / km) +800m 8:45 / km | |
| spiked:24/34c shoes: Falcon |
| Latvian marathon-O champs with mass start. A very nice day for running. I ran H21A thinking that I would be able to be close to the leaders. Not so, mistakes of 20+ minutes plus a 4 minute route choice error and my bad shape put me 41 minutes back from the winning time. The fact that I ran completely alone for 90% of the race did not help either. Cannot say that I loved the map - 10 minutes of my mistakes I will blame on that. Otherwise it was quite a challenging test of orienteering skills. |