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Another "almost" race

Today started off great. I was feeling confident and running well. At the third control I saw Noemi and some other runners ahead of me and caught them by taking a better route to 4. The next few controls went well. A small miss at 9 by dropping too low…
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but then disaster struck at 11. I didnt drop far enough crossing a slope to find a small hill, but decided i must have dropped too far and went up instead of down. Nearly 2 minutes later i found the control. I then took a bad route to the next control losing another 40 s and a small miss in the light green at the one after put me back another 20 s. I finished 10th, 2 mins 56 down. I would normally be pleased with 10th place, and yesterday that would have been great, but today its incredible frustrating…

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