Analyze My Orienteering #79 - BUL Champs M18 (2025-05-09)

'Analyze my orienteering' is a series of headcam orienteering movies made by Ivan Sirakov where you can analyze, comment and help him become better in sports. The other aim of the project is to make Orienteering more popular all around.

This 79th episode of the series is from the Bulgarian Champs in M18 - Long distance which was also a Middle distance selection race for WOC - M21. I did a decent race but still did one (two) big mistakes. I can say I was struggling quite much on the uphills already at the beginning - it was soft in the terrain. Maybe because of this tiredness I chose bad route choice towards 6th control - going around all the way on the asphalt which cost me more than a minute - straighter option is best and I can say I was in doubt for quite a while when going out of 5th. Towards 7th I did a mistake - not reading the contours and the circle enough - ended up quite high in the re-entrant and had to read and go down. And the last but biggest mistake was towards 9th control - since I had seen the area and the control itself I barely looked at my map - took a brief direction and went onto the leg... when in the big valley I met quite a bushy area and decided I've ended much to the right on the green and without looking too much I crossed the area and when approached the white slope I went left. Obviously my direction was correct and I was on the line but crossed a bushy area that is generalized. Not paying enough attention cost me 2 minutes. So in the end for these controls - 6th (1 min), 7th (30 secs) and 9th (2 mins) I lost 3:30mins.

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