2|50036| GPS Craig Ogilvie||Type your comment
1|50006| GPS Amund Beitnes||Type your comment
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2|50027| GPS Paul Wimberley||Type your comment
4|89|Cornelia Mueller||Type your comment
4|50083| GPS Sarah Wimberley||Type your comment
4|89|Cornelia Mueller||After a pretty good run on the same map the day before, I might have been a little too self-confident. My technique to control number 2 was running approximately to that direction and spot the flag or any other runner punching it. Quite often, you see the flag from far away, but not this time. But I saw another control, at the thicket in the yellow and went to check the number, although I knew that it wasn't mine. I couldn't locate this control exactly and lost the feeling for distance. As you can see, the technique I used  didn't really work out... (As an excuse: I was brought up in the Swiss alps where you do not need your compass, but you  just run based on contour lines). When you realise that you are absolutely lost, you should go to a distinctive place to relocate, but I just run around like a bee without a system and a lot, lot later, I finally stumbled upon the control. I lost more than 7 minutes there. For a long time I haven't made such a big mistake. Luckily, control number 3 and 4  had contour lines as guide lines. To control number 5 I was insecure again, but in the meantime, a good swiss junior girl, on the same course, caught up to me and I followed her for the rest of the race. What a shame! No idea, how she perfectly found number 8 and 12! In the stony parts, I managed well and even punched first a couple of times. In the open, it was very foggy and you could only see a few metres which made it pretty difficult and spooky. In the finish, I was rather frustrated not to have a technique for this kind of controls after 45 years of orienteering. During my elite years, the most hated thing was a flat Swedish forest with a small hill in the middle of a green area. I don't know why no other W 55 runner was faster, where they had problems. But I know that I don't like to win with such a bad run.