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Espoorastit Oittaa

Four troublesome controls out of 15 in total.

#4 would have deserved more respect - I just ran roughly out from #3 and started to look for #4 on the wrong hill. Should have used the big stone and the big path as intermediate checkpoints.

#9 was located quite low and close to the yellow field, so the approach from the powerline and cliffs above is completely wrong. Should have instead taken the small path all the way to the corner of the field and #9 from there.

Inexplicably lost track of the hills on the way towards #10 and looked for it already on hill nr 2. Then a poorly planned direction out of #10 towards #11 through slow terrain. Staying on the white area of the map would have been much faster.

Länsirastit Kiimasuo

A map where the straightest route was fastest. Many places had cut down trees which were best avoided.

2-3: Drifted too much right, thus my route is unnecessarily long at 137% of the straight-line distance.

5-6: Tried to avoid the slow green area by running on the road/rock, but didn't hit the control and ran past it a bit. Worst split 🙁

8-9: Not much to read/observe on the downslope towards #9. My direction out of #8 is off a bit towards the south and I should have used the big stone and open clearing (circled yellow) as an intermediate checkpoint. Crossed the ditch too much south but found #9 reasonably quickly.

Firmaliiga 2014/3 - Pirttimäki

About twenty degrees colder than on Saturday, with +6C and rain today!

Biggest problem directly at the start when I looked for #1 on the wrong hill 🙁
Otherwise mostly OK with no major mistakes.

Itärastit Ämmässuo

Really hot yesterday - more or less 50% walking from #3 onwards...

#1-#2 OK
Just before #3 should have stayed on the white area - it was slower to cross the yellow open area.
#4-#5 OK
#6 a bit surprised to see the control so soon - did not have a good idea of where I left the road.
#7-#8 OKish (down the hill from #7 perhaps a more direct line over the wet/slow blue area would have been faster)
#9 was going OK all the way into the control-circle, but then went for the wrong group of stones and spent about 3-4 minutes extra here.
#10-F easy but quite tired and dehydrated at this point. Should bring water for 60+ minutes of running in the heat!

Firmaliiga at Pirttimäki on Tuesday is next.

Firmaliiga 2/2014, Kattilajärvi

The second firmaliiga event this spring was held yesterday at Kattilajärvi.

I was on the E-course, and had no major problems on 7 out of 8 legs.

On control #5 I managed to spend three times as much time as the best runner!? How is that possible..

First I took the wrong direction, by maybe 45 degrees to the right, out of #4 🙁
Then I mistook the hill close to #7 for the one on the #4-#5 line, and took the path at almost 90 degrees to my correct direction 🙁
When finally getting a grip on things again, around the 90-degree bend in my path, I think I am located somewhere north of the #5-#6 line, and I start to search for the control on the wrong hill 🙁

Itärastit Kauhala

#4 didn't cross the blue swamp - it looked quite wet...
#8 looked for the control too soon, in a difficult place on a steep slope
#11 again anticipated the control too soon, even turned back and ran north along the trail for a while. Should have stayed closer to the line, not sure why there is drift to the right just after #10. Why not use the yellow open area as a midway checkpoint?!?

Espoorastit Juvanmalmi

#2 should have crossed the blue wet area later, now ended up on the wrong hill
#6 passed the right stone on the wrong side, looped back and found the flag on the other side of the stone!
#8 drifted too much right

Iltarastit Pirttibacka

#1 close to the control I didn't find the path up the hill. The bigger path left was probably the more popular (and faster?) route choice.
#27 the plan was to stay closer to the line, but probably did not loose that much time anyway.
#29 rounding the hill to the right might have been faster, and close to the control I ran 100m too far on the road.

Itärastit Uutela

#2, bad (easy!) right-ish direction out of #1
#10 too high up the hill from #9 (which was also hard to find)
#11 slow walking up the hill
#12 down to the path and round the steep cliff - maybe straighter would have been better?
#14 OK "on the map" around the forbidden area, but then drifted left down the hill. worst split 🙁
#15 ok orienteering just too slow..
#19 well hidden control on steep downslope
#21 drifting left into the woods when there would have been a straight path

Itärastit Salmenkallio

#1 lots of problems with mistaking one path for the other as well as not knowing which big stone on the map is which in reality
#2 looping close to the control circle - should have a good secure plan all the way to the control
#3 no real route plan and as a result a completely crazy path up&down a big hill. the paths to the left would have been much better probably.
#4, #5, #6, and #7 went OK with #7 being the best split, mostly running on compass-bearing on top of the hill - checking progress form stones/shapes on the map.
#8 drifted too much to the right and going down the steep hill was slow. a bit of hesitation close to the control.
#9, #10, #11 OKish.