Sverigepremiaren Stafett
2nd leg with Kine on 1st and Hedda on 3rd.
Headed out in 12th spot after Kine got caught out by the organisers putting out 111 and 110 in the opposite places from where they should have been. Unfortunately 110 was a gaffled control in the women's relay, so roughly 1/3 of the teams got screwed over on 1st leg...the controls were set right by the time 2nd and 3rd legs got to it.
Anyway. I got sent out with Jarla on my tail and a few teams in the minute or two infront. Jarla stayed 3 steps behind me for the first 3 controls before coming past on the track to 4. We took a different route in to 4 and on to 5, but then I went past her on the gaffled #6, never to be seen again ;) Much like yesterday I felt a really nice flow going in the sand-dunes. The topography made sense and I felt for the most part I was picking the right lines through the terrain. Was to-ing and fro-ing a bit with Vendula Horcickova, until she had a short split at the far end of the course. Caught up again on the long leg back up toward the coast, only to lose 20s on the next split and a compounding 20-30 by not spotting the best route through the baches (sorry, summer houses) on the next leg.
A fast final loop near the arena, where IFK got back past on another short split (grrr), and into the hand-over in 5th place, 1.30 back from 2nd.
Hedda had a great run on last leg to bring us back in 7th.
Very very surprised that the relay hasn't been invalidated due to the mixed up controls though. The only reason I can think of is if nobody actually put in an official protest? And the only reason I can think of for nobody doing that is that everyone thought it was so obvious that it didn't need a protest? I dunno.
All in all, Lidingo were deserved winners, the 3 of us had good runs (Kine up until that control anyway), and the weekend was great fun.
But. I'm disappointed that having a result list seems more important than having a fair race. Kind of expect it, and will deal with it, in small-race NZ or Aus, but not the opening event of the Swedish season.
Course on livelox:
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