Jukola.
What an amazing race this is. Watched the start and first leg and turned in for the night pretty inspired by the sight of it all.
Woke up to the news that this was one of the hardest jukolas in years, the leading teams way down on the expected pace, and so many teams in the mass start. So started with about 1000 others and quickly settled into my place in the pack - nowhere near the front unfortunately as I was seriously lacking pace.
Had a pretty good race, although it was one of the toughest ever. Small parallel error at #13 but easily corrected, but other than that it was clean.
Really ran out of stamina towards the end, not surprising given lack of training, but just about managed although the last steep hill was a tester.
Can't decide whether the huge pack made things quicker or slower for me. On the one hand it definitely helped to have others taking care of navigating at times, but on the other hand there were bottlenecks when it slowed to a walk.
Overall - can't wait for next year's!
Don't seem to get splits owing to the DSQ but was sthg like 250th on the leg. If anything a little closer than usual to the top brits.