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The whole family has been i Halden today. Me, Silje and Sander were attending Norwegian Spring, my wife, Sigrid went as well, but she dropped us off, and continued to the Swedish border for shopping. Så everyone was satisfied ....
This was by debut in the M40 class, and that's a really competition for a newbie as me with only a year or so with adult orienteering. So it went as expected, me placed safe down the list as Nbr 28 of 38. Most went well, exept 2 controls; 4 and 8. Control 4 was a bit to run, and I was on track, but sligthly to much to right when I ran into an another control, and was suddenly in doubt. I was saved by a very experienced runner from my club witch catced me up an then I had a back to run after into the next control.
Vidar soon disappeard and I was on my own again, and it went ok until I left control 7. Then I get all to much south and crossed the road far from planned, and the I was lost. As the map shows I was fooling around until I found the hard turn on the road, and then I was back on course again og the rest went fine.
Silje attended in W13-14, but had 2 big misses and was placed 5 of 6. Sander had a perfect day in M10 and won with over 4 minutes, so he is really clever, and have won all 3 races he has started in this year. So I'm very proud of him.
My course :
2 Comments
David Currie
Hi Bjørn-Willy,
Yes - I follow blog in my reader so keep up the English translation. I was eagerly anticipating your results at the weekend. Your position doesn't look so bad to me. Neither do the detours on your route so perhaps it is more the speed that you are going once you realise that you have gone wrong (or about to) that matters? It's always good to have ways to improve though (at least that's my excuse). Sounds like you have a star in the making with Sander!
David
Bjørn-Willy Arntzen AUTHOR
Hello, again. Nice to hear from you... between 'sleepless' nigths at yours ...
Yea, I should not be disappointed with the placement, but after studying the map in peace and with my reading glasses on, I really see that I could have made better choices. Just have to add this on the learning curve. Next competition is in Moss at Saturday, so stay tuned for my report.