2022–05–28 — Himos — Jämsä Adventure
So I attended the Himos — Jämsä Adventure event today with my wife. Was not the best day but well, we finished.
Time was about 4 hours 50 minutes and the total route roughly 32km. For our first adventure event, it was probably quite ok. The event started off with a short orienteering task with 12 checkpoints. This went ok and we got to the next stage, canoeing, from 11th position. This is where I screwed up. I had not read the route book well enough and we ended up visiting two unnecessary checkpoints, which caused us about 30 minutes and instead of canoeing for about 4km, we ended up doing almost 7km. I could’ve checked the route book while we were at the route, but could not find it, so after canoeing, wife was pretty pissed. Me too. The book happened to be in my jacket pocket but with a life jacket on, just did not check my jacket pockets properly. After a short and intense discussion at the transit area, wife was ready to call it a day but I was determined to continue. We lost about 30 mins, but I was pretty sure we could catch up atleast a few teams. As it turned out, we did.
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After canoeing, there was cycling / mtb. As a suprise, we started seeing other people in the checkpoints and the next transit area was still full of people when we reached it. From the transit area, we started another orienteering task with 8 checkpoints, which went really well. After that, more cycling, a bit of archery, more running (trail to top of Himos) and again some more cycling and off to the finish line. From 45 teams reaching the finish in our startup group, we ended up being the 14th team at the finish line. Honestly, we still find it hard to believe.
A partial track of the effort, as recorded by my Garmin watch. Did not always remember to continue the workout after leaving the transit area, or switch to correct activity, so part of the track is missing from the map and some running / cycling displayed wrong.
Results are here if someone is interested. Our team name was “Taivaltajat”. Long way to the top, but way above average 💪.
