Spring Adventure

Before race

For me race season started with Spring Adventure race. It was held in Espoo, Finland by Suomen Multisport Urheilijat. We participated it with Antti as Team Itella. I got up from my bed about 4 in the morning. At 4:30 I made sure that Antti was also waken. As always I was bit late. I arrived at Antti's place at 5:30 and he was even more late than me. We used 30 minutes for finding cash (which Antti found much later). We drove to atm before driving to race-central. We arrived school of Lahnus about at 6:30.

We finished race preparations about 10 minutes before race start and we just hade enough time for driving to start pace which was about 5 km's from race central.

Race

Race started with biking. There was huge amount of people at startline and the small sand road was quite crowded after the start. Biking section ended at Klaukkala(?) slalom hill.

Next sections was riveering(?). It was basically running but the cp's were on each bank of the river. We divided to both sides and collected cp's separately as it was allowed. After river we had longish run to the next ta.

At this point race continued with kick-bikes. My friend Alpo came along from ta to inspect our flawless kicking technique.

After kick-bikes there was short canoing section which was easy. Canoes needed to be carried after canoing about 500 meters.

Our bikes were at the slalom hill and next we needed to run back to the hill. Unluckily our race-papers dropped and we needed to run couple of km's back to retrieve it.

When we got back to our bikes we drove interesting section without maps. We received directions and meters how much to drive on paper from organizers. We had some trouble at last 500m but that didn't slow us too much. Cp was at other slalom slope and after finding it we drove back to the race central.

Last section was rogaining but we had only time to find one cp. There was penalty if team exceeds end time set by organizers. We heard that top-3 teams had quite tight rogaining section.

After race

Plus and cons:

+Race
+Weather
+Course
+Team mate
-My orienteering
-Our speed