A-final. Warm weather felt good. Started concervative, saving strength for later. Missed first on a parallel error, 40 sec to a minute. Beginning was physical, legs are still good. 4 to 5 was critical long leg, took extra 30 sec to decide + 30 sec in execution, but nailed a control in green native forest. Caught up to Roger (8 min) on 6. Leading on the way to 7 while climbing. Legs are not as good as earlier. Now Roger is leading, we are about the same speed. Just before 7 heard Nickolay F. crushing behind us. I have 2 min on him, that is good news. Now there 3 of us running hard, lead changes, orienteering is straight forward, easy to push pace. Last 3 controls we are 4, caught really strong Sweed, who started 2 min. behind me, passed me on a long leg, but lost some time later.Good and bad news at the same time. 2 in the finish, 2 better guys finishing later with better times. 4-th, 2:12 behind third, 4 minutes to leader. I was not the fastest by far, but good company, especially Roger's, helped.
M50-A Final Map