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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.