Its been one week since I injured my ankle and am unable to train or compete, so I gladly joined my club in organizing Lithuanian orienteering championship in ultra long distance last weekend. Event took place in northern part of the country, the weather was extremely warm and sunny for this late in the year. I even got some tan by being whole day in the open air, what conceals the fact that I haven't had any holiday this year;) (working for big company and big projects big deadlines suck :S) Anyway, the event was really great and everything went smooth. Nearly 200 competitors took part. Some of them were disappointed with course planning but thats nothing we could do - we outsourced this task to other club (buggers;) and everything else was OK. Few photos from the event:
Early morning, still chilly, preparing the main tent - adding electricity, wireless internet connections (and we're in the middle of nowhere) for live result updates and other fancy stuff - orienteering is so much ahead of most of other sports in terms of technology usage:)
Men elite gathering for the mass-start. In the horizon you can see our awesome run-in path from the last control - we did even trim all the grass so there wouldn't be any disadvantage for leading runners ;)
The course wasn't easy for sure :)
When your best is not good enough =)
Fooling around with the spare medals after the whole event was finished ;) Bah, damn ankle, can't wait till I will be up and running again... Must be next week :)
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