Jukola 3rd leg (17/06/2018)

One of those "should have done more mistakes based on the effort" runs. Like on 1st leg, I lost contact twice. That caused some uncertainty and first I slowed down and made a zig-zag. Don't know how much time I lost there. When I lost the sedond time, I just went on compass until I hit the track. As I left the track near the control, everyone seemed to go wrong way and I pretty much jogged to the control. I ended up getting stuck in a rocky slope and doing a 20sec hook right before the control. I could have done the leg maybe 1,5min faster. A big problem was I tried to keep up with faster guys.
2-3-4 were ok. On 5th leg I had very loose map contact, but found myself time after time. Towards the end everyone disappeared and I became very uncertain. I stopped a few times and for 10sec right at the edge of the circle. Then some folks came and led me to the control.
On 6th leg I read the map maybe twice, somehow I just knew it was common control. Same thing about the 7th, except this time I should not have trusted others. They did extremely poor job and after halfway everyone stopped and started wandering to different directions. I realised we weren't far enough, since we had not reached the flat area behind the control. I found myself when I saw runners coming from the control and I saw the flat and slope to the east. A 1,5min mistake only, could have been worse.
7-8-9-10 were ok with some minor hesitations. On the long 11th leg my plan was clear, but a few guys I was with went higher up the slope after the road than I planned. My plan was to not go to the clearings. As we got closer to the clearing, I still thought they had the same plan I had, and took what I thought to be a "micro route choice" which got me stuck in some fallen trees and bushes. I never saw them return to my lane so I changed my plan, but they were gone. I turned and got stuck again, started avoiding bush and had to make a lateral move. On the clearing there were good tracks from previous legs, but once entering the forest they went straight down the slope. The guys I were with reached the control 1min before me.
12 and 13 were really good forkings, I missed both my controls for a 30sec mistake. Rest of the course was easy, a lot of running. My choice for 16th leg was wrong though.
All in all, a bad run with decent result. I should have ran sub 90 min but tonight was an off day. Running felt quite good though. Weather had been extremely dry so dust was a huge issue. In my case it mostly impacted visibility in the dark forest.