Orienteering race 50:00 [3]
2-man relay. Ran in team with Tone. I ran the first leg, and decided to follow my plan to the first control eventhough the others went differently. My route choice was not the best, but not so bad as it turned out to be since there was threes lying everywhere, blocking my possibility to move forward. Fighting through it at lost more than 2 minuts, on something that was bad map and not bad orienteering from my side. Went on and hoped that the others had the same problems, which was the case for some of them. But to the 3rd control it was forking, and my control was lying on a cliff. First I found the other forking, but didn't mind. Then I first made a parallel mistake misunderstanding where this forking control was, but then I understood, and tried again. Searching the areas around my control without finding it, and with the feeling that something was not correct. So I again thought I had misunderstood the other forking control. Running downwards back to find a track and met Tone, who confirmed that I was where I thought I was. Tried again, but without finding it, and ran all the way back to a big track, following it and tried to take the control from an other side. Also here I felt the map wasn't to easy to understand, but saw the flag. Really frustrating to loose 10min (?) on a control point where the map is not good. Such a control point would never have been used in a competition, but still it distroyed my chances in the training race and also the fun of it. There have been a lot of bad maps in this area this season, and making a lot of huge mistakes is just not fun, and really not motivating. It makes you loose selfconfidence. To day I did run technically good exept of this control, so I can forget about this mistake, that is good!