North past punjonsuo, around ruuhijärvi, then around orajärvi, and between the smaller lakes back. Lost the trail around 8km for a bit..
Category: Sport
Spjutsund 94k
Windy and quite warm.
Kyrkslätt 100k
Mostly warm and sunny with some slight rain. First 100k this year!
Tour de Sibbo
A loop around sipoonkorpi. 87 km in total.
Not too warm and a bit windy.
Itärastit Salmenkallio
About +11 to +13C with a cold-ish wind. After the first start at 11:00 they were out of maps by 12:00 - thus this less than ideal hand-drawn map. Quite good from the start towards the south, but then a few mistakes, J-curves and loops towards the end. I'm happy this course didn't have controls in the top left corner which has way too many map symbols... Around 65 min with maybe 10 min of mistakes.
Söderkulla Eightyfive
A bit of rain at the start but then dry. New brake/shift cables and bar-tape on the road-bike.
Kiintorastit Pirttibacka
4.9 km course at an easy pace. A strange U-turn halfway between 89-99. Not so sure about going west out of 39, should have gone north maybe..
Itärastit Latokaski, B 5km
Warm +18C. Quite easy course/map.
#4 is the best split (top-ten), about 2/3rds along paths and then up the hill to the control. #9 is the worst split, didn't find a clear path through the field and the lack of fitness sets in towards the end of the course. 20th out of about 85 overall.
Firmaliiga Haukkalampi E-baana
Around a 2km walk from the parking-lot to the start and then 2km back again from the finish. OK weather around +10 to +12C maybe.
A decent run on this shorter E-course - in contrast to a mediocre run on the long course last week. Maybe a bit too close to the lake towards #2. The only major mistake was at #5 where I registered one big stone as the wrong one and looked north-east instead of south-west for the control. Also the area around #7 was much flatter than I expected from reading the map. By accident I crossed the forbidden area between #7 and #8 ;(
Platform Pedals
Xpedo Utmost 16 - cheaper, a bit smaller, quite long/large pins. New, so not sure how well the bearings will last.
Raceface Atlas - more expensive, large platform, smaller/shorter pins, low and thin. Some bearing problems on one side...
