Jukola 1st leg. 38th +2:53
First row and my main thoughts were do not drop your map, do not fall over. Said this about 10 times to myself. Set off fast but still got swamped. In hindsight I maybe should have gone quicker as we slowed fairly quickly in the green. I looked at my map at the start and was like straight looks good but had no idea where we were in the green and by the time I did we were on the right route. Hit the road oh there is front of the pack got there by no.1. Turns out a group went straight and got nearly 2min. I never saw them though and just stuck in the pack.
Going to 2 we cross perpendicular to other gaffle and I collided with someone full on and ended on my arse got up and found it which turned out to be a hard gaffle.
Clean to 3 and 4 then wrong gaffle to 5 but it was close to en route yet I lost some time as everyone punched the control and I wasn't sure where I was. Lose about 15seconds but drop in with Kris. Same gaffle for long leg so stuck to Kris (started going up cliffs but bailed round) then Willy joined. Got 7 and 8 fine then up to 9 the trains split in two and I kind of stuck in the middle as was unsure. Hit the hill and worked out I was on an open knoll to the right of my control so drop in and find it. Lost about 15sec. Then was on my own to 10 for a bit which was worrying but pop into the green and see the trains. Then started heading too low towards the other gaffle realised and climbed back up the train and hill to mine. Lost another 30sec.
11 easy 12 was serious cliff climbing and the guy in front of me got scared so I took no pity and shoved him up the cliff as he was losing the train. Whilst getting shoved from behind. Too far left out of 12 and hit the green hillside and path to 13 losing 20sec. Feeling good on the run through but then died in the terrain afterwards. Saw Will just ahead but was falling over every 30 steps and just trying to hang on until the finish. Maybe a bit tired from post BSBM training but also likely to be lack of terrain fitness also.
Happy with my performance. 3rd attempt at 1st and not run it for 3 years so happy not to blow it. Really need to practice how to work with the trains though. I suspect I will be on first leg in the future. I would like to do something like 6th or 7th one day though.
Splits-
http://results.jukola.com/tulokset/en/j2016_ju/kil...
GPS-
http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/2016juko1/?v=m3