Baltic Orienteering Championships (2018-05-28)

Chose to skip Norwegian champs in street puzzle racing and travel to the wilderness of Latvia with Beech, Louise and Delphine. Terrain was absolutely fantastic and unlike anything else I have run in. Imagine a giant Scottish Spey valley forest, with more contour detail fewer paths better runnability and bizzre negative contours.

On the day was feeling a bit tired (after 2 long distance races in 2 weekends EOC and BOC). Also sampled some Latvian delicacy (French chop) which had pretty much destroyed my stomach.

Made a small mistake on 1 (looked easy but visability was low). Then quite a large routechoice error on 3. Aimed to hit paths to south of line but got pulled off along the steep slopes and had poor visulaisation and failed to get a good overview in the low visability.

Good section to 11. (Small miss on 9 with sloppy compass).

12: Firstly chose wrong routechoice, then executed it terribly. Amied to hit path between 1 and 2 but again lost contact in large negative features and got pulled off line.

12-finish. Really good, such beautiful forest and excellent map. Was knackered but really enjoying every step.