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Thursday Jun 12, 2008 #
Event: Forssa Games
Run ((orienteering)) 24:53 [3] *** 3.1 km (8:02 / km) +90m 7:01 / km
spiked:10/12c
Arrived in Finland at 3.00 p.m., drove for two hours and was on a course by 6.30. In the circumstances I thought that entering the elite class at Forssa would be just a tad ambitious (plus you had to be in the quarantine area by 6 - which as it turned out I would have made by the skin of my teeth), so I was happy to settle for an enter-on-the-day course to get the feel of Finnish forest and turn my legs over.
It took me 10 minutes to get any sort of feel for running in the forest; picked up a bit after that. Navigation was pretty easy - probably a moderate course by local standards, although the map still took a little bit of getting used to.
Flight over was fine, apart from a bit of lower back soreness at the end of the first leg. Only negative was that almost all the Asian crossing, which had the potential for fabulous views, was cloudy.
It took me 10 minutes to get any sort of feel for running in the forest; picked up a bit after that. Navigation was pretty easy - probably a moderate course by local standards, although the map still took a little bit of getting used to.
Flight over was fine, apart from a bit of lower back soreness at the end of the first leg. Only negative was that almost all the Asian crossing, which had the potential for fabulous views, was cloudy.