Welcome to my digital orienteering map archive!

Orienteered from 1 to 12, lost between 4 and 5 minutes!
Lucky on 6 where I never saw the path halfway and was still looking for that or the ride when I hit the control so perfectly that I had to check the control code. :-)
Small mistakes on 8 (maybe placed a bit too far south?) and 9 (misplaced compared with the marsh below).

Some hesitatiions but ony one real mistake when I started running from 1 to 10 instead of 2, lost half a minute here. Since I was one minute behind my clubmate Øystein Ruud this didn't make any difference to me final placement: 7 out of 28

Worst time loss might have been on the finish punch: It was supposed to be on top of the knoll, but in reality it was located at the side of the track. I lost 20 seconds here!

Shaky start with wobbles to 1 & 2, then a half minute mistake on 4 when I would have seen the flag if I just looked up as I was moving in exactly the right direction. :-(

Another nearly perfectly executed race, but still nearly 5 minutes behind Nils Hæstad, in 5th place. I considered taking the main paths around to the north to the first control, but considered that to be too boring. It was probably half a minute faster than the route I took!
I did not spot the flag on the second control, so I hesitated a few seconds just in front of it.
On the third control I stopped just above the control, then realized that I had to jump down one more step.
My main problem is still that I cannot run the way I used to. :-(

Extremely cold! 5C, nearly freezing rain. Even with a wool upper it was so cold that I never got warm during the race, but I did at least manage near-perfect orienteering: The first 7 were optimal but I should either have run straight over the hill to 8, or at least hit the track a bit further south. 15-20 seconds?
Tom A Karlsen in H70 ran the same course and he was over a minute faster than me!

An almost perfect race: Zero control misses or hesitations, but in hindsight it looks like I lost -20+ seconds on the safe path route to control 9, and that with the rain and slippery rocks and roots on the main path down to 11, it was actually a bit faster to run almost straight in the terrain.

Two stupid mistakes, on controls 8 and 12!
My route from 1 to 2 was quite bad when I didn't find the path inside the logged area in the start. Going straight would have been much better.

3.3 km / 54 minutes to Haslumseter Kapell.
34 min break
20 min to KP 12
5 min at the fixed control
58 minutes back down to the car park.
Total: 8.6 km, 2:11 moving time.

My worst race ever?
My knee was hurting so much that I intentionally ran out of the map in the forest from 4 to 5, just to avoid downhill running on pavement. When I also ran badly to control 12 I ended up close to last of all finishing runners.

Forgot my description holder so I just fastened it upside down to my start number, this cost me when I read 58 upside down as 85 and returned to the control to check once more. GPS track indicates I lost 37 seconds here. Running on the stone steps up to 7 and down again to 8 was very painful. My distance behind the winner was about 4 min, just like yesterday when the competition time was more than twice as long.

OK on the uphill legs, lost too much going down, but except for the route to #9 it was mostly OK. I am happy with a top 10 finish with more than 50 starters in a country where I last ran in 1977!

Allergy season stopped me here, my running shape hit a proper wall. I also made one serious mistake when I ran into an olive green area, discovered what I had done and had to return the same way.

Best race this year! Close to optimal routes, zero control mistakes, but still almost exactly 4 minutes behind Nils Hæstad who is simply much more fit than the rest of us.

I almost took the wrong turn in two places (to 4 & 6), then my route to 12 (just after the map flip) was both more streneous and a few seconds slower than simply running flat around to the left, going past 14 and 13. I was happy with the race, not quite as far behind as I was when we started the same race series last year.

I halped organize this race, handling entry and timing, but before most of the runers arrived I ran through my own course. Slow running but no real mistakes before the final control where I failed to spot the flag (it was hidden behind a spruce).

I was positively surprised in that my knee did better than expected! I orienteered well and finished just two minutes behind the winners. 5-20 cm snow depth, some of the paths were extremely icy, my old metal-studded shoes had big problems getting a grip.

First orienteering run since the first part of january, so my shape was just as bad as I feared. Very easy course though, so mostly just plodidng along.