Audun had a strong run and finished 8 seconds down the lead. He made what he was asked for and gave an optimal start to KOK. Christian (KOK 2) was just some seconds down Audun and built a strong basis for the good KOK 2nd team result.
Isak ran really well on 2nd leg and keep the gap to leading team quite small. For KOK 2 Oystein showed once more his night skills and placed his team in a very good position before Langa Natten
Andreas made a tactical slow start on 3rd leg and ran most of the course in a big group leading by Nordberg. Jon was in the same group and allowed KOK 2 to be in the top positions after 3 legs.
On 4th leg Eirik made some mistakes and lost about 4 minutes to the leading team Halden. It was a little critical at this time of the race with the 2 other favorite team about 4 minutes in front of us.
On 5th leg my task was to reduce the gap to the leader to the minimum. My plan was to do it with a safe and clean race. It went quite well even if I did 3-4 20-30 seconds mistakes. At the spectator control someone told me that Halden and KR were about 1min in front and some controls later I could close the gap to them. On the last forking I had some hesitations and this allowed Halden to change over in the lead 45 seconds in front of us.
I was quite please with my run and was confident that it would now be a battle between KR, Halden and KOK
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But on 6th leg everybody seems to look at the other and nobody really made his own race. Therefore many teams could close the gap to Jostein and the others leading guys.
This gave a stressful start to Vegard who was in KOK 1st team for the first time. He missed about 3 minutes at the first control and lost the leading pack. Afterwards he had an impressive run keeping the distance with the strongest runner on that leg.
On 8th leg Damien had problems to find a good flow and missed a lot. Far too much to be able to reduce the 3 minutes gap we had on KR. He even lost 3 more minutes and therefore our chances for a final victory seems quite small at this time of the relay.
On leg 7 and 8 we lost 3'02 and 3'19'' on the best leg times. In comparison KR who lost 0'16'' and 0'23''. This if far too much and it's clearly the legs were our final result was decided.
Holger had a very good race and ran the 2nd best time on his leg with KR running best leg time and increasing the gap to 6'50.
With such a gap it was impossible, even for Daniel, to catch KR and Gueorgiou. But a place on the podium was in reach with gap of 3'47 to the 2nd place. As usual he did a good race and could secure a 2nd place.
KOK 2nd team made a really strong performance and took place 32, 2nd best of the 2nd teams.
Now it's 6 weeks to Jukola and we have to lift our performances if we want to win a 2nd victory there. Everyone in the club is really motivated to do so and I hope that we will fight with the best on each leg and made a optimal performances in Finland.
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