Flatter terrain compared to last week - easier to keep up the pace on the whole course.
A stupid mistake that cost maybe 2 minutes on #1 - otherwise mostly OK orienteering.
Firmaliiga result 24./58
Category: Sport
Firmaliiga 2013/4, Kattilajärvi
First firmaliiga event this fall. Overall very physically demanding with most controls placed high up on hills/cliffs.
#1 a bit of circling before finding the right control
#2 ok and safe route, but slow
#3-#4-#5 OK
#6 very long leg with one or two big hills in the way. A route-choice with more running along the road might have been better.
#8 I tried to plan a good route to this control on the way to #6, but other runners and poor judgement caused extra minutes wasted here also.
Firmaliiga result 45./59
Iltarastit, Kattilajärvi
OK orienteering but not that fast running. Warm weather and hilly terrain. Maybe a bit surprisingly the big detour from 4->16 using roads and paths worked out OK since it was my second best split-time in terms of placing.
Sunday 110k
Another 100k ride, this time from west to east. Warm but breezy weather. Only one short stop to refill two water-bottles and eat an energy-gel.
Last 100k in 4h 17min (23.3 km/h)
Total 110k in 5h 2min.
Aluerastit, Ilola
A lot of slow thicket areas and a map which I found difficult to read. Many paths that were visible in terrain were not on the map - while the ones drawn on the map were overgrown and hard to find. A similar story with large stones where I thought many were missing from the map.
Saturday Night Bike Ride
First longer bike ride this year.
To avoid the midday heat I started in the evening around 18:00 and finished late around 23:00 with barely enough light to ride. There is a nice newly built bike-path between espoonlahti and kirkkonummi.
Iltarastit, Pirttibacka
Problems on two out of the eleven controls yesterday. These also show up as the worst placings in the split times.
The #3-#4 (17-18 on the map) leg should have been a straightforward run along paths. However I took a short-cut from the path too soon and crossed about 1/3rd of the leg through the woods. Then right inside the control circle I ran past the control almost to the road south of it before returning. The blue line shows the path I should have taken.
On the very last control (14 on the map) it would have been clearly faster to return to the road (green line) and not go straighter through the light-green (thick) area.
Jämsä-Jukola statistics
Here's the distribution of total time for teams in the Jämsä-Jukola relay:
Here are the distributions of individual times for the seven legs of the relay.
The histogram from the first leg shows bunching of runners into groups - this is different from all the remaining legs.
The 2nd and 3rd leg look quite similar. Note how the histograms lean to the left - there are many amateurs of varying ability which contribute to the long tail to the right.
The 4th and 5th legs are shorter and faster.
The 6th leg is again longer with the final 7th leg being the longest of them all.
Scraping scripts (requires minor modifications to downloaded results html file): jukola_scrape
Jämsä-Jukola
I ran the second stage (13 km) of the Jukola relay in Jämsä on Sunday.
Clear skies and a more northerly location meant there was much more light during the whole night. Not nearly as pitch-black as I remember in Vantaa last year.
Since there are about 1600 teams competing there will be tracks from 2000 or more runners in the forest when starting the 2nd-stage from about mid-way or worse down the field. This means it's really more trail-running than independent orienteering 🙂 There are tracks to and from each control - you just have to pick the right track among many.
Aluerastit, Länsimäki
An interesting course with controls #1-#9 in a very detailed area, then a few longer legs to #12 where the course criss-crossed over the swamp a few times before heading back south to the finish.
No major mistakes just minor ones: after #3 did not clearly identify the path, and took a wrong direction down the hill to find #4. Then on the #10-#11 leg I did not want to cross the deep "trenches" on these cliffs, so I back-tracked to avoid the trench (dark brown line on the map).
