The sprint

First event down. Mixed day for a team. Sounds like the results over the internet weren't so good. It was a bit like that at the event centre, more Danes than Swedes!
Course was in an area of the Ruddalen Påvelund map that had been heavily remapped. It had heaps of changes between buildings and little portions of forest. Looking at routes and times in many cases it was much faster to go off line to avoid the forest and stay on grass and roads.

Lizzie had the best result for the team with a 15th place beating some pretty good runners and one of the best of the non Scandinavian runners. Greta did well with a 36th. Next were kate 70th and georgia 74th both of whom made a few mistakes. Tessa finished 97th with a few dodge route choices and angela was 106th.

Simon was the best of the boys with a consistent run to 37th. A few small mistakes but very few made it through the course error free. Scott and Tom were both very disappointed with their 100th and 101st placings. Scott felt like he never got going and smashed his compass about 1/3 of the way around which upset his rhythm. Tom had a shocker in the middle part of the course through 6,7,8 and then lost about 45 seconds on the second to last control. Jack was 129th and suffered with a few route choices and running speed.

It was interesting to see how spread the sprint was, many runners clustered around a time with gaps between groups of 10 to 15 runners. The unforgiving nature of the terrain punished small mistakes and bad route choices.

The opening ceremony was in the evening afterwards. Held in liseberg theme park in Göteborg it was one of the better organised aspects so far. Spent an hour on the rollercoasters before the ceremony. Lizzie carried the flag for us, best result for the day and 4th JWOC in a row.

Model day today and were just relaxing for the afternoon after having already been out this morning. Everyone is alright physically and looking forward to middle qual tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who was watching on the internet, hopefully it works a bit better tonight.