The route in red is Hanne Staff's. She ran the leg in 17:23. Here is what she wrote about her route:
In both the men's and women's elite courses there was a long leg from one to two. I didn't have time to look at the leg in advance since I took a technically demanding route to the first control. I had to spend some time at the first control deciding how to go to two. I made the "easiest" choice -- just go straight. The fastest route was to run around to the right with a lot of road and trail running. But I was only 35 seconds slower.
The fastest route -- the route taken by the runner with the best time on the leg -- is shown with a purple line.
Long legs like this are rare in the U.S. In fact, a leg much over 1 km is rare in the U.S. I don't know why. Maybe it is because course setters tend to focus on making it hard to find the control rather than interesting to decide how to run between the controls?
posted by Michael |
7:55 PM
