Sunshine and maybe +11..13C.
Iltarastit Solvalla
Tag: solvalla
Firmaliiga 2021/1 Solvalla
Short E-course in sunny and warm weather. A small loop into #5, and then drifted too much east into #7.
Salmi next week.
Solvalla 5km
Warm maybe +7 C or so with sunshine.
Still people downhill skiing, although no lifts are running so you have to walk up the hill!
Iltarastit Solvalla
Around +12C with a bit of rain before the run. Large 1:7500 map. Almost ran past both the 1st and 2nd controls...
retro-orienteering Solvalla
1:15000 map with hand-drawn controls, and old-school punching on paper (no EMIT). A bit of rain and +11 C or so.
Firmaliiga 2019/2 Solvalla
Stepped off the path towards #1 too soon and circled around the wrong hill, probably costing +2 minutes or so.
#5 is also a bad split - the plan was to use the paths and not go down to the lake - but bad execution resulted in a visit to the lake and slow climbing back up to the control.
#9 is not stellar, perhaps due to lack of fitness, or slowing down and reading the map too often on the long(ish) open leg.
19./88 overall is OK - would have been better without these three mistakes 😉
Oittans-Solvalla-Oittans
Might be some of the last weekends this season for biking in decent weather... Mostly easy but hilly gravel paths from Oittaa heading north to Solvalla, then back south along the main road.
Iltarastit Solvalla
As daylight disappears Iltarastit moves to Sundays. +11 C or so. Too nervous right after stepping off the path towards #1. Then quite tentative towards #21. The long compass-legs 5-4 and 8-16 look surprisingly good.
Iltarastit Solvalla
A loop around #1, then OK until #3, but followed someone else towards #4 and lost the plot. Tired legs for the rest of the course.
Firmaliiga Solvalla
Decent run for a change, 11th out of 60 runners on the E-track. Just past the wrong stone on #1 and a ~2 min loop back. Drifted into the blue swamp a bit on #6->#7 but nothing too bad. Maybe too safe along the path to #9. After climbing the hill I searched right for #12 when it was just to the left.
Light rain and maybe +17C.
