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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.