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Thursday Oct 23, 2008 #
orienteering 58:50 [3] 6.0 km (9:48 / km)
DM middle distance Sorunda rerun
After a few days enjoying the autumn leaves and cheap vodka in Poland I drove back up to Gdansk to catch the boat yesterday. I left Warsaw with 5h40 before check-in closed and viaMichelin said I had 4h52 of driving ahead of me. No motorway, so plenty of overtaking practice on Polish roads and getting intimidated by oncoming lorries on my side of the road... Stopped twice, once for a pee early on, bad idea as all the lorries I had worked so hard to overtake were back ahead of me, but I hadn't much choice; then a second time for petrol and wisniowka, where I was told 3h left, and 3h30 before checkin closed... oooh the pressure.
All went fine until the entry into Gdansk just after 4pm, as rush-hour had started :( took 30mins to go the next half a km... didn't get to stop at a shop and stock up on *everything* as planned, instead went straight to the terminal and got there with 15 mins to spare.
Boat was uneventful. Arriving into Sweden by boat was as stunning as ever. The weather was beautiful today with clear, clear, blue skies and double-digit temperatures. I'd been planning on going straight back home and just going for a wee jog in Stockholm, but couldn't resist returning to Sorunda.
Parked the car and all my worldly belongings in the woods and ran around the middle distance DM course plus a little extra to and from it. As I had thought, there is something wrong with the map at the third control, big knoll/hill/spur missing and the cliff is too high up 50 m from the control.
Couple of other minor complaints about the mapping, but on the whole it is a wonderfully pleasant place to orienteer, even if the marshes were cold.
The car is emptied and the boxes unpacked... good thing I got a big apartment :)
After a few days enjoying the autumn leaves and cheap vodka in Poland I drove back up to Gdansk to catch the boat yesterday. I left Warsaw with 5h40 before check-in closed and viaMichelin said I had 4h52 of driving ahead of me. No motorway, so plenty of overtaking practice on Polish roads and getting intimidated by oncoming lorries on my side of the road... Stopped twice, once for a pee early on, bad idea as all the lorries I had worked so hard to overtake were back ahead of me, but I hadn't much choice; then a second time for petrol and wisniowka, where I was told 3h left, and 3h30 before checkin closed... oooh the pressure.
All went fine until the entry into Gdansk just after 4pm, as rush-hour had started :( took 30mins to go the next half a km... didn't get to stop at a shop and stock up on *everything* as planned, instead went straight to the terminal and got there with 15 mins to spare.
Boat was uneventful. Arriving into Sweden by boat was as stunning as ever. The weather was beautiful today with clear, clear, blue skies and double-digit temperatures. I'd been planning on going straight back home and just going for a wee jog in Stockholm, but couldn't resist returning to Sorunda.
Parked the car and all my worldly belongings in the woods and ran around the middle distance DM course plus a little extra to and from it. As I had thought, there is something wrong with the map at the third control, big knoll/hill/spur missing and the cliff is too high up 50 m from the control.
Couple of other minor complaints about the mapping, but on the whole it is a wonderfully pleasant place to orienteer, even if the marshes were cold.
The car is emptied and the boxes unpacked... good thing I got a big apartment :)
Sunday Oct 19, 2008 #
orienteering race 50:00 [2] 6.0 km (8:20 / km)
Orienteering in Lodz.
Not in the best of shape as had been partying the two preceding nights in Torun, my left ham was a little sore from bowling and my right calf was sore out of contrariness.
Winner ran 31 showh how well I wsa going. It seemed like the north lines were 10 degrees off, but I might have been crosseyed from wisniowka
Not in the best of shape as had been partying the two preceding nights in Torun, my left ham was a little sore from bowling and my right calf was sore out of contrariness.
Winner ran 31 showh how well I wsa going. It seemed like the north lines were 10 degrees off, but I might have been crosseyed from wisniowka