Orienteering - race 1:12:00 [3] 11.5 mi (6:16 / mi)
Jk long. Cold ash.
Ran it in a rather odd way in purpose. Focused totally on technical stuff, so as a result was a bit ploddy, but pretty pleased with how it went. Small misses, but probably not the 5 mins I was down on cat in total. Exhausted now, totally exhausted. Analysis later.
Aforesaid analysis. as i said, i ran it differently than i usually would on purpose. focusing on what i was doing, and not the speed at what i was doing it. interesting to try a new approach, but not getting the usual physical buzz. massively enjoyed trying something new, and got a solid, if not spectacular run out of it. I was not at the jk this year wanting to win, but wanting to get some solid runs in with 100% concentration on me, no distractions with worrying about results wtc. great to see cat's success. She deserves it. What a hard worker she is. I'm striving to get you next time cat! You are inspiring me.
The running felt pretty ploddy and slow. 3 I was going straight, and good, but lost confidence and veered off about 20m before the control and dropped 40 secs. Didn't check direction out of 4 and dropped 5-10 secs, 7 same as 3, was going well, lost confidence when I was maybe 5 metres off and veered the wrong way. 20 secs.
8 didn't read the descriptions right, 10secs.
11, really hesitant 10secs
12 - came out of 11 bad direction and didn't correct soon enough 15secs
13 was really tricky. Wanted to find the path to make it safer but it was not too obvious and hard to find so spent a while trashing around in holly. 30secs
14 again loss of confidence in what I was doing. Just missed it, hut the road and come back. 1min
After this bit I decided I ought to be running a bit faster, and the trickiest but was done, so conciously picked up the pace. Didn't hit 19 directly, 10secs
20 I took in a green forest and stream I neededn't have bothered with that was shitty. 5 secs. 21 racing andy Munro and a bit off line 10secs. 22 still racing andy and he had a different control. Not paying enough attention. Offline. 20.
Then crap bearing to 24. Tired and wanting to finish. 20secs.
This has been a tough few months for me, but I have a lot of ideas as to how to approach the summer races in a better frame of mind this year. I wanted to have fun and I did. I'll take some time out to plan the next few months now. Many thanks to all who have helped me recently. I'd name you but you are all way too modest for that!