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Kurzemes Pavasaris

Last weekend I spent in Liepāja (town near Baltic sea some 200km from Riga). I was participateing in 2 day orienteering event Kurzemes Pavasaris. First day was middle distance WRE and second day long distane. This was my this seasons first important race. I was a little bit nervous because…
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I didnt know how to behave in course. It was very important to concentrate on orienteering because terrain was fast and complicated with seaside sand-dune microrelief. In first day it was 6,2km 17controls. I had very bad beginning because of my speed, that was too fast for my oreinteering. As a result, I had failures to first three controls. Then I understood that I must slow down and start to read a map and use compass more. When I was running to 5th control,some 100 meters behind me, I saw a very fast running guy and it was nobody else…

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