Moeg - Race Day 2

A late night and early start set the scene for our long French public event. The previous 4 days of orienteering was starting to take its toll on the legs which felt really tired. The map was just below day 3 training. Again in places the vegetation was thick, the ground rocky and contours very detailed. This meant you had to find nice paths for the long legs which joined the clustering of technical controls. The long legs were around 1.5km, with some climb and even the paths got very rocky. The climb on the long legs was often squeezed into a short space. All courses had lots of route choices which added to the challenge. As this map shows Nico's 9.8km, 440m climb course took him from one corner of the A3 map to the other.

Typical "stony ground" - it tends to slow you down