WOC Long 2018 (13.08.2018)
Kategori: Konkurranse
Distanse: 18.93 km
Tid: 114:26
Felt good physically on the day, the warm up map was really scary (flat+green) and I made a big mistake already looking for a pit before the start. So I tried to be very focused and clinical, especially when I saw on the control description that the first control was on a pit.

1- Leg looked terrifying and halfway I began to lose contact so just stared at my compass. I stopped when I thought I had gone far enough and turned around to relocate, the control was 5m away… quite lucky.

5- Looked tricky as well so made it to the path bend and tried to go in on compass, got a bit pushed off to the right but realized and lost maybe 40sec.

At 8 I got caught by my 2 and 4min man who were together. I was a bit surprised as I hadn’t made any big mistakes but maybe I was running a bit too carefully, also the 4min man had caught the 2min man at the first control and they had ran fast together.

Had chosen to go left, but Sirikov went even further left, he was running very fast and I decided to try to get up to him on this leg. We made a mistake together high up on 9, I didn’t register the clearing despite looking for it as an attackpoint.

At 11 Sirikov chose a crazy left route so I began to go straight on my own. When I got to the field I heard somebody who turend out to be Kratov, nice! He had caught me 8mins and was going well with good lines and straight short routechoices.

After a slightly dodgy route to 17 I was getting physically and mentally quite tired, and at 20 I heard another group, Glebov who had caught my 2 and 4min man, and Aleksi (-2min man, ws just in front). So I hung onto Glebov until the end at a blistering pace.

Happy with the race, and my technical and physical performance. The 2nd half was a lot of pack running and with a 2min start interval and no butterfly-loop this is unavoidable. I was never going to let Kratov or Glebov go unless I thought they were taking really crazy routechoices.

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