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Itärastit Latokartano

A lot of running along roads, but some orienteering required on controls #5 - #12 also.
On #8 should have followed the straight line via the rocks.
#9-#10-#11 are either on top of a hill or on a steep downslope. It's hard to say how far up or down they are. From #11 I went south and came down the steep and slow slope. Straight west out of the control down a more gentle slope might have been faster.

Then this at #9. Less than 20m from the control I decide it must be more north and do a 4 minute loop.

Itärastit, Paloheinä

Mostly running along paths and roads.
#2 should have chosen the smaller path and a straighter route.
#9 a wrong turn left just at the edge of the control-circle. Should have been easy on compass bearing from the grey cliff.
#13-#14 not great splits, but not that much time lost either.

Itärastit, Landbo

#1-#2 OK at easy speed
#3 small hook inside the control circle
#4 best split and direct route, but very slow going up the steep hill
#5-#6-#7 OK
#8 gave advice to someone just before the control, then ran past control myself until I stopped at two big rocks. worst split.
#9 from the bigger road I missed the path I wanted to take (blue line), and had to find it through the woods instead.
#10-#11-#12-#13-#14 more runners both in front and behind on these controls. Nothing special to report on.

Itärastit, Salmenkallio

1-2 OKish3 lots of problems finding this one
4 distracted by the mistake on 3, ran in the completely wrong direction for a bit first...
5-6-7-8-9-10-F OK but not great

Itärastit, Kauhala

#3 OK orienteering into the control circle, but then went for the wrong hill/cliffs to the right when the control was a little left.
#5 strange route choice (??) on the wrong side of the swamp.
#6 a more southerly route would have avoided the wet and slow places.

Itärastit, Spjutsund

+3 minutes on #8 because I took the wrong direction over the hill when leaving #7. Should have checked the direction of the slope and read the map more carefully.

+2 minutes on the last control. The yellow areas on the map were in reality very different on different sides of the road.

Itärastit, Käringmossen

Orienteering close to the Ämmässuo/Käringmossen trash dump.

#1 a bit tentative, maybe should have used the path SW of the control
#2 OK
#3 good orienteering into the control-circle, but then failed to find the flag for about 3 minutes...
#4 the plan was to use the cliff (blue line on the map) to find the control, but I failed to execute and circled around the hill on the wrong side. Another +3 min mistake.
#5 no mistakes but slow
#6-#7-#8 OK
#9 initially I had the right direction out from #8, but then somehow deviated down the wrong side of the hill (looking at the compass might have helped). Maybe 2-3 min lost here.
#10-#11-#12-F mostly OK

I didn't make it into the official results but my placing is roughly 20./62.

Itärastit, Svedängen

Fast running on most legs, but I made a complete mess out of two controls!

Itärastit, Salmenkallio

#2 could have taken a more direct route close to the control
#6 ran very very close to the control - then decided to search right for 200m when the control would have been to the left about 5m.
#7 should have clearly chosen either the path or the road - now an in-between choice that wasn't so great.

Itärastit, Latokartano

Nice going on 1-4, then a little slower to #5.
Towards #6 I first had the wrong direction and found the road close to #7 instead. Then again the wrong direction from the road towards #6??
7-9 OKish. Big problems on #10 - should learn to recognize these harder legs and play it very safe. Many paths that were not marked on the map lead to all kinds of confusion..