Cherry's maps

Ran like a total legend, knew as I was hitting the controls that the others had no chance!!! Destroyed the field!! Cant teach that shit!!!!

1st loop made me want to vomit haha. Disgusting terrain and horrible legs, got caught in a load of shit on the way to 1 and lost a load of time. Hating life on the way to 6, and questioning what life choices had taken me to this point...

Then it got a lot nicer! Dont know what happened at 9 but I knew where I was not quite confident enough to go north. Couldn't work it out and was stupid.

Another classic mistake on way back to butterfly control for 2nd time, then stupid straight routechoice to 2nd last control.

Embarrassing!

AOOK Middle distance training day.

Some good bits, some shit bits.

1-4: Running safe pretty slowly, happy to hit 1st control well.

5: Forgot about this one haha, thought it took a long time to get from 5 to the path
6: Ran a bit far on the path looking for a place to cross scary electic fence (turned off)
7: Control on wrong knoll, was a bit too far left anyway. Thought when running out that I might have misspunched, as the control site didn't look correct. Had this in the back of my head for the rest of the race and the mistakes start.

10: wrong knoll, was quite vague around here. Then stood on correct knoll for a bit before I sawe the kite hanging low covered in snow haha.

11: Crap direction out from the open area, was quite thick. Then parallel error on the white hill.

12: Just awful haha, maybe lost 1min here. Was not really concentrating 100% as thought i had mispunched at 7.

Cool terrain, very runnable despite being green. Anders Tiltnes caught me at 2, and then we both made a mistake on 3. Then we both caught Bjørn Ekeberg at 4 and were together until 8. Then was just me and Bjørn, I stayed behind on the tricky long legs and then tried to get away a bit at the end.

Just 4 today. Got a bit confused to 5, wrong gaffle at 7 and wasn't at 17, got confused wasn't expecting such a big direction difference there and fell behind a bit. But some good parts at the start, middle and end as well :)

3 night intervals, easy pace after race this morning. Felt a bit empty so got eaten up by this tough terrain. Was good in the circle but maybe a bit lazy with the routechoice and maybe didnt find the best passages eg on 3, 8, 21, 22 and 25

Middle distance race. Pleased with the race (apart from an aviodable 90sec parallel mistake at 8, typical loss of concentration on long leg). Terrain was quite thick and bushy, running straight was not that great often, I lost time at 10. Looking for lines of runnability before beginning each leg ws important. Also had to be careful to read all the way into the control, lost some time on the short legs at the end because of this.

Amazing terrain and map was voted best in Norway in 2011.

Started well and was trying to find good routes, especially pleased with 2.

At 6 the top of the hill the terrain looked quite different to the picture that I had, I also thought the control was on a spur... so lost a bit.

Another good part up to the butterfly which was very thick, typical mistake on way back to a control I had visited before, stopped on a parallel feature.