I’m very pleased to see that your evaluation of the leg is pretty much identical to what I wrote above, I consider that a win. :-)

My thoughts with the leg was to make a leg with many different possibilities, where straight look tempting with the first look (to trick runners like my self:)), but if you look more carefull the straight is not as good as i looks like, even though the line is quite nice (big cliff just after the 1 ctr, a big U when crossing the road, and a really tough climb, some green strips a indistinct path and some though terrain (the last 300 m) in the second part of the leg.

My opinion is therefor that the red route to the south is the best choice. It is just ca 425 m longer than the variant north to the lake and than straight on to with the blue one. I think that it is a better choice than blue all the way, even though there is a path going more or less all the way to the road. The red has significant less climb than green/blue 90 m vs 125 m and has a lot more road running that is significant faster than most of the tracks.

At the end of the red route I don’t know if the fastest is to do like Jan has draw with red or if it is better to go straight in the end (down to the parking, the road and than bush to the control). The difference is just 150 m and the entrance to the control at the red option is very fast.

There are also some more straight choices of the right route (going straight just before the powerline, and right of the forbidden area), but those are to though. To make shortcuts just after the big road is bad decision both on red, blue and green I think. The purple route to the right is to slow, but I think with moving the control 150-200 m to the NW it would maybe been an even better leg.