BG Champs 2025 - M18 - Long (Middle selection race) (2025-05-09)

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/-UDuVpOxME0
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.