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A really bad race! I ran well to the first three controls, then I completely forgot to read the map on the simple leg to #4, got lost and had no idea how to recover because I was sure htat I had to be north of the stone wall!
A few more smaller mistakes on the rest of the cotnrols, including a bad mistake to the finish line which was on top of instead of at the bottom of the ski jump hilll!

Better orienteering than in my previous NIght-O races this fall, possibly because my knee has been hurting quite a bit since I ran Blodslitet two days ago, so I started with no expectations except that I would try to orienteer properly.

One mistake in the phi loop when I ran to 5 instead of 4 (shown as 7/9 and 6 on the race map which has the opposite forking) . About 2 min time loss according to my GPS, maybe a bit more due to less path running.
Due to this error I ran the rest of the race pretty much alone, in the end I ended up in 9th place 5 minutes behind Hallvard Fjær with Eirik Næss-Ulseth and Sture Ottesen just ahead of him. I had been together with Hallvard and Sture on control 3 when I saw that they had the opposite forking.
In the end I had 7-8 people within 2 min behind me so even if I didn't see them at all except when leaving #20, any additional mistakes would have cost me a lot of places.
10 years ago when we last ran in this terrain I just managed to stay in the leading group all the way to the end, but with very easy orienteering and mostly running for the last couple of km, I was dead last in that group afair.

My worst race this fall, I failed to spot #1 (2:30 lost), OK to #2, failed again to see the flag on #3 (1 min loss), ok to #4.
The real disaster struck to #5, just after I spotted the lone cabin just 100+ meters before the flag: I just needed to drop into the elongated marsh-filled valley and it would lead me to the control! I managed instead to follow the less distinct valley just to the east and never managed to figure this out. I was back almost to #4 before I decided to follow a bunch of young girls back to that lone cabin and then I finally realized my mistake. This took 12 min extra!
I did nmot want to run together with those girls, so up to #8 I decided to take a more direct route and executed that well nearly to the control circle, but for the final push the terrain was so broken up thatI lost height while detouring around unmapped cliffs and windfall. A final 2+ min lost here for a total of almost 18 min!

Lost the path system both times in the green valley SE of control 5, plus a small mistake on control 2. It might have been faster to go more direct from 5 to 6, but also more risky.
I had a group right behind me from control 6 to the finish, I was happy with my speed and execution during this part where my bad knee didn't slow me down too much.

I tried to run fast even though my knees hurt, today that resulted in two major mistakes, to #5 (where I got so lost that I stopped for nearly a minute in a path junction before I managed to relocate myself), and then on #10 where there are several very prominent cliffs not shown on the map.

Another rerun, this time of the H70 course from the 2021 race series.
No flags of course, so I did spend a few extra seconds making sure I was in the right spot, but I still missed #4.

My knees felt fine running uphill, but quite bad going back down, so I tried to take a route with maximally soft footing. I still used about the same time up and down.

Nice hike with Tone after two nights with frost so that all the wet marshes and mud pools were partly frozen.
The trip was partly to test the tracking on my new Garmin Fenix 7 watch in multi-constellation mode. When I compare the track log with official georeferenced photos, it seems to be extremely good. This is of course partly due to the optimal tracking circumstances with clear skies, zero vegetation, and mostly 360 degrees views.

Vi parkerte ved Revsnes camping, gikk først fobi Spegla, en campinghytte laget i speilglass og med tilhørende badstu og badebrygge, deretter en rødmærket sti i tett skråli før vi kom inn på hovedstien som går langs Hyllandshylen (vann) og så opp og rundt Hyljås via en veldig fin sti ned igjen til campingplassen.

Inledende tur for å bygge appetitt, veivalget ble som foreslått av Kitty: Oppover langs stien til Lysedammene, ned igjen via grusveien. Ca 7,5 km, 1 time opp og 45 min ned igjen.
Plukket også med oss 3 stk Stolpejaktposter på veien.
Selve banketten etterpå var fenomenal, Kitty hadde laget en meny med nesten utelukkende lokale råvarer, inkludert det møreste elgkjøttet jeg noen gang har spist! Tusen Takk!

Ran half an hour after everyone else, after driving directly from a ballroom dance class to the start of the race. Thank You to the organizers!
Stupid route to #2, misread the contours and the open yellow before #5 (thought I was further south, then I failed to find the saddle towards #6 and ended up running all the way around. The rest was mostly OK, except for not taking the track along the building towards the second to last control.

My first VM win in many(11?) years, I wasn't the fastest runner today, but everyone else made more mistakes than what I did: My only significant mistake was to #7 where I should have gone directly down to the path instead of climbing over the first hill, this cost me about half a minute compared to my old friend Hallvard Fjær who ended up in third place. Similarly, Sture Ottesen messed up on #9 and 13(!) but still beat Hallvard by a second.

Lost 5-10 sec hesitating into #2, then I failed to spot #3 from 2m away and lost 20-30 sec, before the disaster on #5 where I lost 45 s, also from failing to spot the flag from a couple of meters away.
Leaving #12 I got too close to the impassable wall and had to backtrack a few meters, this cost me maybe 15 sec.
Finally I again failed to see the flag on #17 and lost another 10 sec.
In my current running shape I would have needed a perfect race just to maybe make it into the top 6.

Totalt 9.5 km, nesten 600 m stigning, tilbake ved bilene ca 21:10, dvs en times tid etter at det ble for mørkt til åse hvor vi gikk uten hodelykt.

My righj knee is so bad that I cannot land properly on it or push to accelerate, so I'm moving far slower than I would like to. However, this does give me more time to orienteer than I'm used to so I didn't make any mistakes here, except when I intentionally went straight to #6 even though I was sure that taking the path+road+path around right would be faster: I did not want to have to run on that road, particularly not on the downhill section!

Good start to 1,2,3 then a really stupid mistake to #4 which I ran past to the next major path junction. Lost 60-70 sec here.
Next bad decision was to #11 where I should have gone left on the big track, saving about a minute compared to the route I took.

A very tough climb up to the start but then we got all the payback we could wish for in the form of wonderful views and even nicer forest/ground cover. My legs were still tired from the long trip last evening but I orienteered close to perfect.

6.0 km and 1:30 walking time along the western route to the control.
31 min break at the control
5.5 km / 1:21 time to get back down to the car park.
Total was 11.5 km in 3:26, including 670 m ascent

Ran with soft, i.e. not studded shoes, after a 20+ mm rainfall, so all the rocks and slabs were horribly slippery. My orienteering was pretty good, except for taking the wrong route both to and from control 7: It was nearly a minute faster to goleft on the main paths to the control, and then go right on the ridge path to 8.

11.7 km, 32 min rest/refuel at the top of Paradiskollen, 2 + 4 min spent visiting the two fixed controls.so about 3:37 total hiking time with 850m total ascent.

Late entry, pulled a back muscle yesterday so somewhat painful run. Very good orienteering until I failed to see control 11 and skipped it, going directly to the last.

Ran through one of the courses after the youths had finished their championship relay.
Made a small direction mistake into #1, otherwise OK.

Did a run through of my own course: Even though I hung out all the control 10 days ago, I had not taken the course in the correct order, so I managed to not find the optimal routes everywhere.

Hunting fixed controls using my race bike with an MTBO map holder. I made a couple of orienteering mistakes, but most of my time loss was due to not spotting the controls, sometimes because they were slightly misplaced. Still a very nice ride, even with the gravel patches and a number of curbs to jump.

I failed to spot the streamer right in front of me on #1, spent about 90 sec before I came back. I made a tiny wobble into #3, otherwise pretty good.

2nd loop was much better than the first. I misread the open/semi-open towards #1 but corrected quickly, then I lost direction for a bit while crossing the _very_ wet marsh before #2.
The rest was good.

Did not tape my ankles, so I ran very carefully. I failed to spot the streamers in a few locations, largest time loss on #7 which I passed right by

My route to #9 was quite stupid, going straight would have been significantly faster!

My head was never into this race, but I needed the run to distract myself so I was happy I started. Mostly OK routes, one really significant mistake into #3 where I didn't see the control and started to doubt my direction even though it was close to perfect. Lost about a minute here.

Pretty good orienteering: I lost significant time to #3 due to going straight: The initial half had a lot of micro-hils and heavy heather and other undergrowth, so making a wide right turn was better.

On #11 I failed to spot the flag even though I looked for it at the south end of the knoll. I lost a minute here.

A set of 4 intervals on the nice Torsnes map, only somewhat marred currently by new logging.
I missed #1 because the bare rock patch where I first climbed up was so large that I was sure that I was a bit higher on the hill. If I had just glanced to my left I would have spotted it. At the same time I should have noticed the boulder next to the path.
I ran OK to #2 & 3.

During the second interval I followed the bare rock patches to #4, took a bearing to #5 but after crossing the path by the double bend area I still managed to veer off course into the control.
#6 & 7 were both OK.

On the third interval the part from the path into #8 had significant residue from logging work, I hit the flag perfectly even though it wasn't visible more than 5m away.

The last interval was my worst: I hit #10 nicely, did the same on #11, except that I didn't see the streamer and the cliff was much less obvious than most on this map. Also on the last control I stopped too soon because I could see the end of the ditch but not the marker.

Tried to run with a very swollen knee, so I was mostly moving at jogging pace. No real mistakes since I had plenty of time to orienteer.

I was on the entry list for this race, but unfortunately sick at the time. Oppsal however decided to let the flags for this and three other courses hang so they could be used for individual runs!
I think I ran very close to perfect, with optimal routes and execution. The only place I lost a few seconds was into #4 where a big fur windfall blocked the direct route so I had to detour around it.
Near the end, to #8 I suspected that running straight would be the fastest but I was so tired at this point that I bailed out to the path. Looking at the Livelox tracks, it is probable that this cost me 10+ seconds.

Pretty good orienteering! I think #3 was located a tiny bit too far south/high in the reentrant.
#4 was definitely too high up, but the green vegetation was larger than shown on the map.
My worst mistake was on #6 where I suddenly spotted a flag as I was running up along the target reentrant, but this control was located on the nearby boulder instead. When I then cut across to my control I once again had to climb a bit higher up than indicated. I lost 35-40 sec here.
To #8 I knew that there is a ski track west of the lake, but since I didn't have that on my map, I ran on the east side where the map shows white forest.
The rest was OK.

Extreme compass exercise: The solid yellow depressions, as around #2 were very distinct, but the rest of the vegetation drawing was quite unreliable. I only noticed one control (#6) which was obviously misplaced, but had some problems with several others as well.
I have not seen the official result list yet, but it is possible that I won the race even though I have been sick for a few days and only jogged around the course.

Another local race on modified (no paths) map. I made one really serious mistake on #8 where I never spotted the special detail near the top of the hill and therefore believed that I was too far north/away from the location. Lost 3 min here!

Ran on a modified map, with all paths removed. This meant that I had to rely on compass plus contours and some water details for my orienteering. My only serious mistake was on #8 where I did a parallel mistake, reading the map around #7 instead and looked for the reentrants. Lost about 45 sec.
I also lost maybe 15 sec on the the last control when I first checked the earlier cliff since I didn't understand the contours plus semi-open mapping.

Tough terrain, but my only real mistake (75 sec) was a bit over halfway to #1 when I hit a path/track junction and was so mentally tired that I thought I was already at the track/road junction!

Otherwise I think my routes were OK, without the error to #1 I would have matched Rune Berge here.

Ran directly after a heavy dinner, so everything moved in slow motion.
Got confused by al the new paths towards #2, plus the logging that had occured there.
The area around #8 was white forest, no semi-open yellow north of the flag.
#10 was placed close to the center of the ring, but well inside the medium green.

Won all split times on this race, but Tom A Karlsen who won H70 using the same course was less than 3 min behind, two of them on the first control where he probably ran straight.

For the rest of the race we had similar speed.

6.6 km sykkel (250m høyde) frem til den 400m lange stien til KP 30, Bjørnsjøhelvete og den berømte broen. Vi tok matpausen her slik at det gikk totalt 70 min før vi begynte å sykle igjen.

22 minutter på 5,3 km med 170 høydemeter frem til Fortjern hvor vi igjen parkerte syklene og gikk drøye 400m opp bakken på snøen fra vinterens skiløype, klippet/fotograferte post 29 og gikk ned igjen i løpet av 22 min.Her var det ca 100 høydemeter.

Til slutt brukte vi omtrent 40 minutter på å sykle ned igjen, tilbake til Hammeren. Pga den første tøffe bakken så er det faktisk 170 høydemeter den vien også.

Totalt ca 24 km på sykkel og 2 km på bena, drøyt 600 høydemeter på sykkel og 200 på bena.

Final test before TIomila, the race went at least as well as I hoped, but quite disappointed that I ended up running effectively totally alone for the entire race. I saw a couple of senior runners near my 7th control, but that was it.

I think I ran mostly correct routes and no serious control mistakes in the sometimes very dense bush, only 10-15s lost inside the ring on #6 and #10.

Test night race before Tiomila: Good orienteering but I got mentally tired after about an hour. When the second to last control was slightly misplaced, I spent 5 minutes locating it.

I got DSQ'ed on control 15 even though I am certainly stamping on that control! My headcam video show that I am moving my left hand with the EmiTag directly over the control plate, but since I immediately looked towards the next control, it does not show the response, i.e. the yellow LED blinking.
The strange track log on #12 is where I got an error beep from my GoPro as it was powering off. I stopped and walked away from the control while I restarted the camera and got the video restarted, but the race up to that point was lost.

This was by far the most interesting course in OCC this year, I probably made a number of smaller route mistakes, along with some hesitations.

Too slow running speed, but much better orienteering than yesterday: Close to perfect?
According to Livelox/WinSplits I lost up to half a minute to #7 when the area north of the dirt road was newly logged (not shown on the race map) and I failed to find the best way through the obstacles/hesitated into the control.

I also lost some time to the last control, but that was mostly due to taking a bad fall while climbing down to the road: Abrasions on both legs and one lower arm, plus a bruise covering two ribs.

I mostly ran the same routes as Nils Hæstad and he was almost 7 minutes faster than all the rest of us, so about 1.5 min/km!

Good until just before #6 where I had to stop about 45 sec for a stomach issue, then even thoughI hit the control nicely, I had attempted to pass through #7 on the way, without spotting it.
I ran this race as a test, with a thumb compass for the first time in more than 30 years, and now I failed to hold the direction as closely as I'm used to. As I passed the control the first time, I though I saw samething down to my right, but I wasn't going to repeat the mistake I did last Sunday when I stopped too early. I lost more than a minute here.

Next I ran a compass direction to #8, but again failed, I saw the indistinct path but it was so narrow that I thought it wouldn't be mapped. Lost 90 sec!

My bad streak continued when I failed to understand where I should leave the path towards #9, lost another 45 sec.

I made two mistakes towards #11: First when I left the path too soon, thinking I was already on the downward bend (maybe 15 sec due to the boulders and rocky ground?), than at the end I should have taken the path further around an attacked via the marsh and the reentrant that lead directly to the control.

OK to 12 & 13.

Total time loss was between 4 and 5 minutes, so my worst orienteering so far this year.

This was my best OCC sprint race in a few years: All my routes were optimal, and I never stopped at a control since I had always had time to work out at least the start of the next leg before I punched. It turned out that on both #1 and #18, going the other direction from what I did was exactly the same time. For the other controls quite a few routes were very obvious but a few runners still managed to make mistakes.

Second day was too tough for me, I was still tired from yesterday, and got to pay for that immediately when I took so long to get up to #1 that even though I was exactly where I thought I was, I still returned to check a control I spotted behind me. This cost me a minute, but the main reason Sören was 11 minutes faster than me today was my abysmal running form.

Very good orienteering,I ended up in 3rd place, 2:50 behind Sören Jonsson who ran much faster, particularly on the long leg to #10 where he beat me by almost a minute. I was probably a bit unlucky when I had to cross an unmapped moss-covered boulder field going down the light green hillside. On #9, after half the race time and 2/3 of the controls I was in 2nd place and just 46 sec behind but then I lost two minutes on the 5 last controls which had more down- and uphill running and a bit less orienteering.

OK forest part (2nd place on control 7), but then I lost 7 places on the remaining street running, ending up in 9th place.
I made one bad mistake on the easiest control of them all, #8 where I just had to hit the fotbridge over the highway. At that point I could not read the map since it was so dark and rainy, so I never saw the wide brown paths on the map.

My back still hurts quite a bit, so I can't really run properly, but I still managed my best race of the season, ending with seconds place just behind my brother and almost 3 min ahead of the rest.
Very close to perfect orienteering, optmial routes everywhere. :-)

I had a partially slipped disk just before Easter, but an immediate chiropractor visit plus a back specialist doctor who gave me 6 cortison injections, two on each side of three lower back disks, saved me so I could do classic skiing every day during Easter break. The pain is still not gone, so today I had to run/jog very caerfully, trying to avoid any harder impacts.
I got a tiny bit to far right towards #2, overshooting the control. Dropped maybe 20-30 sec here?
3 & 4 were OK, but I decided to not follow the path around to #5, just to avoid any downhill running on the rocky main paths. I did no manage to hold a proper course and ended up on the wrong side, so I started to follow that path in the wrong direction until I checked my compass. This was probably a minute++ time loss.
For the rest I only last a few seconds when I changed my mind from 10-11, if I had gone directly to the path that would have been 5-10 sec faster.

All my running over the last several months have been in the form of very steep (10-15%) uphill intervals in order to hopefully recover from a meniscus problem, but today that meant that my actual running speed on flat parkland was a minute slower per km that what I hope to be in a couple of months time.
The course was of course dead simple, even in the 2-3 locations where we had an actual route choice, the livelox tracking shows that it made almost no difference what you selected, with the possible exception of the long leg to #15 where going right was both shorter and a bit faster.

Very nice conditions for my first O run in snow-free terrain this year. I did the first two intervals with OK orienteering: Checked the cliff north of the control to #2, then the rest of that loop and the second interval was OK.
I cut the third loop short, only picking up the last control on my way back to the car park.

I ran this course three days after the event, so no markers but that didn't make any significant difference. I had some stomach pain near the end so I skipped the final two-control loop.

I ran this event before sunset because we were having our daughter and grandson over for dinner, I don't think daylight vs headlamp made any difference here, except that the small control flags with a reflex stripe are easier to spot at night.
My running form is back to very bad, just like before we went on the PWT cruise and I did stop in a few places to consider which route to take depending upon the local snow cover.