![Pictures from SM on Gotland](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_PiSu9s8BFSw/TbP87cvyY5I/AAAAAAAAHBM/uWSjfOGNhsc/s160/P1030655.JPG)
Last weekend I was running my first Swedish Championship, when the Night and Sprint where held on Gotland. The highlight for me was the Sprint held in the old city of Visby.
![Maps from SM Night on Gotland](http://okvaal.com/maps/map_images/31.thumbnail.jpg)
Before the entry deadline I was not sure if I should enter for Friday’s night race, since I have only trained a few sessions with headlamp the last year. But I like night orienteering, and found it a good challenge to enter, sine I anyway was going there the whole weekend and the terrain on Gotland is quite special since it an island.
![Maps from SM Night on Gotland](http://okvaal.com/maps/map_images/32.thumbnail.jpg)
On the Night race it was a really long leg to the first control, and even if I tried hard to keep a good direction I lost the control in the diffuse area just before the control. After searching for the control some minutes I went out to the road, and took the control from the opposite side after having lost more then 6 minutes. After the huge mistake I had lost the chance for a good position, and I was running in cruising speed the rest of the course. It went quite well until the map change, but in the end I started to be tired, and did some mistakes. When I finished I was told by the organizer that I was disqualified, since I had punched the control just west of the first control I should have had. All in all a really bad night race for me, even if the area was cool. Oleksandr Kratov won, as he also did last year.
Results and
GPS tracking
![Maps from SM Sprint Qual on Gotland](http://okvaal.com/maps/map_images/33.thumbnail.jpg)
The Sprint Qualification on Saturday was in a nice area just North of Visby centre. Unfortunately most of the course was really boring, with only a few interesting legs, and not many route choices. I did a clean race in “qualification speed”, and finished on 2nd place in my heat, 8 seconds behind Patrik Karlsson. ).
Results and
splits
![Maps from SM Sprint Final on Gotland](http://okvaal.com/maps/map_images/34.thumbnail.jpg)
Sunday’s Sprint Final was held mainly in the old city of Visby. It was several route choices and many narrow streets. I was satisfied with my race, but think I lost a few seconds on my route choice to the 2nd, 4th and 11th control. Jerker Lysell won, and I came on 4th place, 15 seconds behind. My running speed was OK, but I felt more tired than I had hoped, so maybe it would have been smart to skip the night race (like the 3 runners beating me did).
Results,
splits and
GPS tracking