Orienteering - race 51:57 [3] 8.3 km (6:16 / km)
Woc long qualifier.
Not a good race. Tired as I was too excited to sleep, I was feeling a bit frantic when I stared the race. On the start line I thought I was chilled, but when I started I realised I was stressy. This made it hard to relax into running quickly and orienteering well. 1 was good, 2 I was too frantic, dropping 1:30, 3 good, 4 got stuck in some grot and was too frantic trying to navigate out. Then started running to 1 by accident. Another 1:30 dropped. Next few ok,then coming out of 8 I was running up a hill on a track and stupidly ran past a turning I should have taken. Missed the control by 30secs too so that leg I dropped 1 min in total. After that I told myself to get a grip or I would never qualify, and dropped 41secs to georgina best over the rest of the course (8 legs).
I can do it when I get my head straight. Just need to do so more often! Need to get more sleep. Need to get calm for tomorrow. Running like that in a middle race I would drop 5 mins here there and everywhere.
4th qualifier, 1:57 down, which is nice after such a bad race. Legs felt pretty good despite yesterday.