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Friday Jul 13, 2018 #
10 AM
orienteering race (WMOC long final) 1:18:03 [4] 7.2 km (10:50 / km) +95m 10:10 / km
shoes: Inov8 Oroc spikes
Hmm, Gribskov forest wasn't any more runnable today, and neither were my legs any better at getting through it. I was hoping for beautiful clear beech basins but instead we got medium-green young beech thickets, in the midst of one of which a pit had recently been dug in order for my first control to be placed upon a random feature. My 3rd control hid from me by virtue of my having crossed a track at a 45-degree angle to what I should have done, and it took me about 3 minutes of bracken-bashing to get to somewhere that I could work out where I should have been. Misread the contours on 4 and somehow overshot it in the green, went the long way around to 5 in the green, then we were out of the middle-distance stuff and into some decent longer legs, but I took a bit too long to realise that I should be looking at track options.
Took the left track route on the longest leg, which was about 1.5km, and got ahead of the woman who had left the previous control just in front of me, and I moved through the latter controls quite ok when the forest became more open, ending up in a chain of 4 through the final few short legs - and leading them all to the wrong last control, oops. Managed a better finish chute split than I have at any time earlier this week, but the sun was already brutal (on a day when Copenhagen made 29 degrees, and the commentators kept advising people to drink plenty of water and stay out of the sun, and to report any fires we might see!). Ended up equal 26th. Not really happy with being 34 min down on Simone; think I would have preferred to run around Tiisvilde Hegn again...
It was a really good fun week of races and amazingly well organised - even the huge map handout queues moved fairly quickly. I figured I should patronise the traditional Danish food on offer at the catering tent, so went and got some (non-Swedish) meatballs with mashed potato (yep, I saw them pouring the instant mash powder into the MagiMix) and lingonberry sauce, washed down with "lemonade" which turned out to be elderflower - my favourite. And afterwards we met up with Cristina & Melissa & Lukas for an afternoon at the beach :)
Took the left track route on the longest leg, which was about 1.5km, and got ahead of the woman who had left the previous control just in front of me, and I moved through the latter controls quite ok when the forest became more open, ending up in a chain of 4 through the final few short legs - and leading them all to the wrong last control, oops. Managed a better finish chute split than I have at any time earlier this week, but the sun was already brutal (on a day when Copenhagen made 29 degrees, and the commentators kept advising people to drink plenty of water and stay out of the sun, and to report any fires we might see!). Ended up equal 26th. Not really happy with being 34 min down on Simone; think I would have preferred to run around Tiisvilde Hegn again...
It was a really good fun week of races and amazingly well organised - even the huge map handout queues moved fairly quickly. I figured I should patronise the traditional Danish food on offer at the catering tent, so went and got some (non-Swedish) meatballs with mashed potato (yep, I saw them pouring the instant mash powder into the MagiMix) and lingonberry sauce, washed down with "lemonade" which turned out to be elderflower - my favourite. And afterwards we met up with Cristina & Melissa & Lukas for an afternoon at the beach :)