O-tervals: It was great to do these with Sergei and Ian. Ramped up the speed for sure!
1st o-terval: I led and started heading up the trail - I think better to just immmediately dive into woods and use stream bed? I was caught by Ian on the way to 1, then raced with him, not giving up to 2 and then over to 3, at some point in there Sergei had also caught, so were were all racing to 3.
2nd-oterval: Bearing and noting marshes on way to 5, bearing south and giant marsh to 6, then a bit right and up to marsh to 7, right on Ian's heals at the end.
3rd-oterval: Oof, not a good one. I entirely missed 9, just being a bit leazy, hoping to see it more or less just being on my bearing. But then I saw Ian, so I went to chase him, thinking he was still going to 9. Not so, realized at the stream. Stopped, decided I didn't want to make them wait for me, so continued on. But then I also couldn't find 10. Turns out it wasn't in the reentrant that appeared to be circled, instead in the N-S one. Finally mosied on from there too, found 11 and 12 ok, feeling more in touch with the map.
4th o-terval: Started out well to 14 and 15, I felt fast and wasn't caught. Then I started on a bearing at 16, but then diverged way right thinking I needed to be in a reentrant further to my right. Located on giant marsh, although it took me a bit to figure it out, then to 16 correctly.
5th o-terval: 18- a bit left of the line, especially towards the end, which was a nice way in, got there about the same time as Ian, so race on! to 19 also about the same time, and also, after the marsh crossing to 20, although we both thought it was on the wrong (facing E) cliff, before I saw the control across the way.
6th o-terval: 22- bearing, left of marsh, bearing, could see Ian ahead. 23- Uh, not in reentrant, puzzled, but Sergei was there, we told him we still had to go to 4, so a final race to that now well-known stony hill. They both beat me, but I did start a bit behind.
Great training, didn't always work 100%, but good to notch the speed up a level, really how I will have to be racing in Finland, if not even faster, some how...
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Quickroute thoughts: Garmin went flaky here and there, probably my fault for turning it off during our slow recovery walks. I see that I basically passed right over 9, but then diverted from my bearing distracted by some features on my way to 10. Too bad the signal was flaky for my big mistake to 16, I would have liked to see how I actually became so far off...