Night orienteering training

Plan

Plan was practice night orienteering with my team mate Reino. Unfortunately he couldn't participate training since he was going to run half-marathon on next weekend. Of course I said that it was fine and I can go and practice it by myself.

Reality

Yesterday evening at 21:30 darkness begun. I had big difficulties to convince me that this is a good idea. About 21:30 I was on my bike on my way to Pirkkola where this weeks Iltarastit(weekly orienteering) was. At the time of arrival time was about 22:10 and it was time to change shoes.

Bike was hidden in the woods, my headlamp light system was on my head and hardcore was pumping in my earplugs. I was ready.

From the begining of the run it was clear to me that this was wrong place to practice this since all sand roads were well lit. Real darkness came only when entering deep woods.

I found all CP's but some of those caused bit trouble. I decreased my peace to be more accurate but it didn't help much. Length of the route was 6km but I think I ran few extra km's.

After finish line I changed again my bike gear on and drove home. Total time of practice was 3h 15min with avg hr 157.

Conclusion

I should practice orienteering much more often. I should run more and longer. Weather was nice and bit like in Kontula Underground. Hopefully next week I'll have possibility to do this again with added bike orienteering section.

After 4h 30min of sleep I woke up. This workday is going to be fun..