Orienteering race 43:31 [5] 7.1 km (6:08 / km) +165m 5:29 / km
2nd Etap of POM 2010 and also WRE. I started in the Elite-Class. It was my first race in an elite-class in a bigger race and also my first WRE so I was a bit nervous at the start. I started good. To the fourth controll I took a bad route and so I lost 1 minute. There Wolfi Siegert overtook me but I saw him the next 12 controlls between 30 and 100 meters in front of me and I think that helped me a bit to run a faster speed.
To the 17th I saw passing a hill and running on the hill afterwards. I thought that he was run and so I took the first hill. My mistake, he was right and so I didn't see him again, but it shows that I did not just run behind him and not reading map. ;-) On the last controll I had some small controll-area-mistakes but every of those mistakes was not longer than 10 seconds. In the end I ran a time of 43:31 the is 12:31 behind Gueorgious Winning-Time. I am satisfied with the race. Overall it was ca. 2:50 minutes mistake.
The flair was really cool. If they would have had a big screen with live-videos out of the forest it would have been like at an World-Cup-Event.
The starter-field was also crazy, Guergiou, Hubmann, Wingsted, Novikovs, Mamleev, Fraser, Waler Kaas, Kyburz, Nordberg, ...