NM mellom finale (13/09/2014)

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C2-C3. Plan: Attack point = green reentrance between small path and control. I wanted to run straight/slightly right to that path and follow it to the reentrance. C2-C3 Execution: Ran straight/slightly to the right. Between the two big paths there was a small reentrance and I ticked that one off. After the second big path I knew I was above the yellow thing with green stripes and below the marsh. The path was soon to come, and I could feel the more steep and green hillside getting closer.
A very small path came. (A path that I later knew was not on the map because it was far too small – and I totally agree on that point.) I was a bit unsecure then, and I think I first passed it and wanted to continue on my direction towards the hillside. But a few meters later I cut up the hill in order to find the tiny path. It took me some time to find it and I thought it was small, but suddenly it got bigger and I felt reliefed. (I was one level to high, at first along nothing, and suddenly on the less visible path through the yellow area.) However, I couldn’t decide where along the path I was. And I was not willing to leave the path and attack a control in a green hillside from «somewhere» - I had to be sure about the green reentrance, my attack point.
I spent far too much time relocating, meaning that I was really bad at eliminating. Because if things don’t look correct on any side of the path, you are probably not along the correct path! In the end I switched to the correct one and found my attack point, that actually made the control easy. So my plan was good, or at least I still think so.
As I had been so accurate about ticking of things along my route to C3, I should have been confident about my direction and continued some more meters from the critical point - where I passed the path that was not at all a path. And the green reentrance was so large that I would have been «stopped» by it along my direction.
The alarm rung a bit when the non-existing path came, however the really bad feeling came along the less visible path. «Is this the small cliff? Where is the stone below it? How did I get this far along the path? Shouldn’t it have been more green below me?» I don’t remember if the time loss really bothered me. Right then I was just frustrated about the map and spent my energy trying to sort things out. I guess I was rather task focused rather than result focused. After all, I had not planned to participate in that race: Individual NM medals was not my goal this season, whereas my hope was to run a strong relay leg for Nydalens SK if everything went perfect for those 9 weeks after giving birth to Sigrid. That relay I had thougt of during many training sessions this summer. After finding C3 I knew that this middle result already stinked, and the relay again came to my mind. It was going to be held the day after. «Perhaps I should slow down only a little bit and find my technique again in due time for that realy». Well, I slowed down only a little bit, but my technique was neither very accurate nor smart on the next couple of legs. During the arena passing I received some kind of sympathy applause and apologizing words from the speaker, making me so fed up that I decided to push really hard on the last loop. And then finally my technique felt ok again.