Karjaan Ura, monday-orienteering, Fagersten.
Category: Sport
Jakob halvmaraton
Without much training and without any time goal I participated in the Jakob half-marathon.
Up to 10 km things went smoothly. Then the steady uphill towards 11 km felt quite tough, although I sort of kept up the pace until about 14 km. From there it was a fight with a bit of walking now and then... The steady slow-down towards the finish shows in my 5k splits: 26:23, 27:25, 28:51, and 30:16. For comparison in 2012 on this course my 5k splits were: 23:47, 24:17, 24:20, and 24:09 - very steady and not slowing towards the end.
Here's a chart with the min/km times from the half-marathons I've run.
Next year I must remember to do one or two 90-120 minute training runs per month and things will go much smoother...
Thursday 100k
First 100+ k ride this year! A bit of rain in the middle and a steady headwind as usual 🙂
Kiintorastit Solvalla
Another run on the Solvalla map with fixed controls. Last one was in April.
Problems on the second control (#50) where at first I didn't know exactly where on the dashed path I had come down from the hill, and then inside the control circle I looked for stones north up the hill when the control-stone was lower down in the forest.
Louna-Jukola
Big mistake on #9, where I stopped at the wrong cliff/hill, and the control was just to the right, but I did a big loop left before realizing this.
Otherwise mostly OK going in terrain that was much easier to run in compared to 2014 in Kuopio.
Itärastit Paloheinä
Last itärastit event for this spring. See you again in August.
Probably also last orienteering practice before Louna-Jukola next weekend.
#2 found the correct ditch but passed close by the flag before turning around to find it. +2 min.
#9 ran too far along the road and passed close to #4 before turning towards the control.
#15 nothing much wrong but still a bad split. straighter through the green apparently is faster.
Länsirastit Kellonummi
Long boring runs along roads followed by slow climbing up and down stony steep hills.
Itärastit Kauhala
Three good splits on 1, 2, and 7.
Bad mistake on 3 costing about +5 minutes. This was followed by a map badly needing updates on the 3-4 leg...
Firmaliiga Luukki
Ran past #1 to the bigger road. +90s at least.
Too carefully towards #5, also drifting too much east, and then across the road at the wrong place. +2min maybe.
#7-#8 was first steeply downhill, then over the road, and steeply uphill. Didn't hit the right spot on the uphill and this is the worst split by far.
Firmaliiga returns in August with three more events.
Itärastit Ämmässuo
Three major mistakes: ran well past #1, a strange loop before #6, and through the wrong valley towards #11.
Four OK legs with top-20 placings and mostly <1 min lost.
