Running warm up/down 19:00 [1]
10 min before race, 9 min after race, chatting with Louise
Orienteering 52:35 [4] 6.3 km (8:21 / km) +330m 6:37 / km
21c
WOC Relay, Leg #2
Wowzer! Well Sam had an amazing run and started me off in 7th place, really right in the thick of things! It was a super-duper fun race, and although I dropped from 7th to 12th, I didn't make any huge mistakes, and had the 12th fastest time on my leg.
I'm most happy that I didn't get badly distracted by folks going to different controls. Control #1, I went to my control, not at all tempted to follow Maja the wrong way. Control #5, I was maybe tricked into a slightly non-optimal approach to the control because the French and Czech girls had a different one, but was a viable option. The third fork, I didn't even notice.
My biggest problem was to the final control. It was the same final control as all week, so I just figured if I could get out into the ski-tracks, I'd have no issues getting to it. Except somehow the green pushed me uphill, I lazily didn't double-check the map, and I took an extra 50 seconds to that final control! Ug. Else I would have come in right with the Russian and Ukrainian. Lesson to never give up focus!
82/2000