As Bob Harris said in Lost in Translation: “For relaxing times, make it Suntory time!” I’d changed it a bit and say “For relaxing time, make it Ängesön time!” Yes, cottage-weekend in Archipelago!
Short Japanese-English course check here
The weekend of night adventures is over.
Friday, qualification. Hasty and too fast beginning lead to loads of mistakes, in the end I luckily got to senses and drove home with little better feeling. No A final though.
Saturday, B final. Two “compulsory” mistakes on the first 2 controls (all together almost 9 min). I was about to turn home, but it would have been useless since the 2nd c. was furthest from the goal 
I slowed down and started to READ the map. It worked out!
I made it home, alone, without a single miss (in my night-O-skills-scale). Unbelievable! I kind of even liked it, when I think about it now. Perhaps, I may even run some more night viikkorastit this year until snow comes.
PS: Of course I’m not a night wizard, which I guess I’ll never be. Anyway, I’m still wondering what is so cool about running in a dark towards somewhere just watching a compass, sometimes catching some feature and eventually getting a reflex. No doubt, skills are required to be an excellent night-hawk.
But from my point of view the night-O seems to often be the case of being lucky, as it is not in the day-O. Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes you are not. For example last year’s silver medalist Jarkko Liuha didn’t make it to A this year or Mikko Sipilä commented his Q race:”I could not believe I made it to A, for example, towards the 6th c. I had really no idea where I was all the way. Then lake, Yes! I could write more…
PS1: Don’t get me wrong, I do admire all you night geniuses!
Results: Fri and Sat
Splits: Fri and Sat (click on aloita kilpailunseuranta)
Maps:Fri ; Sat_1 and Sat_2
Finally, I must admit! Now only 25 manna and Halikko viesti and then diapers time…
SM middle qualification was a disaster. In the B final surprisingly, where there’s nothing to run for except running the same course as the guys in the A final, I run through without mistakes. Yes, it’s easy when no pressure and just for fun!
Next/this weekend night champs, but I have to decide whether I’ll test my patience or not.
the last week went as follows:
- Peimarin rastit, little scratch on elbow
- Swimming in the see full of algae few times
- World Cup 2007 calendar released here (.pdf), seems like Classic (Long), along with some nations, is going to be abandoned some day (4x sprint, 4x middle, 2x long)
- Elbow inflammation, antibiotics and pain-killers
- Bo defended her Doctoral thesis and became PhD
- Blocked neck, robot-like movements
- Staying home and not going for Finnish Champs Classic distance (just f**** great!)
- ……???