running warm up/down 15:00 [3]
warmup/down for sprint race
orienteering race 15:34 [5]
Boulogne sur Mer,
Old fortified town, one of the better sprint races around, really really great!!! Attention had to be paid to control descriptions, which I did, just misread one at the tenth losing almost a minute. One bad route choice, two I didn't see and the race is more than lost. (Already I wasn't running particularly fast).
TG ran 12 something and said he could have been almost a minute faster.
Really great sprint map. Have I said that already? Funny seeing people running to and fro on a bridge to a citadel looking for a control located 15m below :) some of them considered the moat...
trail run warm up/down 15:00 [3]
warm up for middle race
orienteering race 48:45 [5]
Forêt d'Ecault
Nice map, technical. Unfortunately with the laser-printing the almost omnipresent green hachure was slightly jagged rendering the map difficult to read while running.
Which isn't really my excuse for losing 8 minutes in the the first 5 or 6 controls to JM delaume. shite. Afterwards we ran well, a few mistakes but nothing horrendous. Well, I did start aiming for the 12th halfway to the 11th when I was leading the pack and pushing hard. And JM led us off the wrong way to another one, I corrected first... with SSmirnov managed to pull away two minutes on jm.
Really nice place, sort of. Don't know how TG ran it in 34 when there were no elephant tracks - as first out he was making them.
I never seem to learn that I have to slow down entering technical areas... aaaaghhhhhhh