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Midsummering:)

At first, this year's midsummer didn't give me any reason to party as I forgot to read the map during the WC middle distance in Norway. If you look at my map below, you can see that I really wanted to visit all the hills on it. Well, the disaster gave me a good kick on the ass for the long distance.

I took it quite carefully in the beginning of the long but after the butterflies I started to run a bit faster. Well, then I also made some small mistakes but I still caught A-M Hausken before the map change on the arena. On the second last we started to play cat and mouse and made a 3 minutes mistake. Luckyly, I felt really strong in the end and could take the first victory on my first long distance this year, and I wasn't even feeling tired:)

What makes me tired, though, is that my orienteering is going up and down all the time. If I'm on a good mood, it's sooo easy, but if I'm bored or tired, I can't force my self to look at the map...hopefully, it's getting better as WOC is getting closer all the time!

Because we flew home already on Saturday, we had some time to enjoy the traditional midsummer anyway. I rented a rowing boat with pasi and spent last night in the national park of Päijänne, more precisely on Kelvenne island. When I was little we used to spent all our summers on the lake Päijänne but I didn't really recall that the places were so beautiful.

Of course, we also wanted to check all the places on the island and we ended up running more than two hours. The weather was great and even today we were lucky enough to get home before the endless rain of this summer. We were really near to get wet, though, as the wind was blowing so hard that we couldn't really get forward at all. The little trip was really great and refreshing and there are some photos of it below.

And yes, tomorrow, we'll fly to Czech.


PICTURES:
Middle distance (map)
Long distance beginning (map)
Long, middle part (map)
Long last part (map)
Pasi ready to jog
Beaches of Kelvenne
Small-o, in the evening
Catch a fish
Windy way

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