Orienteering race (Jukola) 2:15:00 [5] ***** 10.8 km (12:30 / km) +340m 10:48 / km
Jukola! After months of training, Luxembourg Orienteering achieved a great result, finishing in 599th spot out of nearly 2,000 teams. I ran leg 6, lost approximately 17 minutes through mapping mistakes mostly due to a lack of experience with this kind of terrain. Luckily, we had at least a couple of trainings before the race itself, otherwise the result wouldn’t have been nearly as good. I battled mostly alone or with one or two guys; no “trains” passing in the period when I ran ... I’m nonetheless satisfied with my race - there were near perfect route choices, and occassionaly some very fast running ... All in all, a beatiful experience! I didn’t time the actual length and elevation as having the GPS on during this kind of race distracts me no end. I reckon I did approximately 13.5 k and close to 400 of elevation.
