Nordic Tour Stage 2 Middle
Very cool tough Norwegian terrain. My run was reasonable but there were little route choices and a few small mistakes which lost me precious time. Running against such tough competition and comparing the GPS is really interesting- in some parts I compared well but have to be consistent throughout every part of the race.
In the beginning I felt very inefficient in the terrain and seemed to cross every cliff possible and lost time on number 2 by having an uncertain route instead of running confidently through the forest or straight out the track. On the long leg to 10 I run in a very slow marsh thinking it was the track, and then overshot the control which didn't just pop up as expected. To 13 I decided quite quickly to go straightish and didn't see the track option with less climb, though I don't think it was much better. A proper mistake on 16 where I ignored my compass and on the long leg back to the arena I took the slower route and executed it badly.
I think I masted the steady start but need to get better at the second half?
38th/54 9:45behind Simone
GPS
http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/20130602WCmidW/