Orienteering - race 27:30 [3] 3.5 mi (7:51 / mi)
I went out with a friend last night. This friend is a functioning alcoholic. Bad move - we drank so much. It was a fairly restrained night for him. Any foot pain this morning was the least of my problems.
I'd been saving up my 'wreck my foot again' running for the weekend, and this took us to an ELO event at Saltoun and Humbie. The forest wasn't great, just like anywhere in England outside the lakes, but I was in the mood for some fun. All went smoothly apart from some lace tying at 8 and 9, and number 11. Number 11 was not where is ought to have been. I ran to the middle of the circle, in which there was neither a feature or control. After jogging around a bit making sure, I saw that the description was a shallow reentrant so I went to the shallow reentrant about 50-100m west of the centre of the circle and found it.
Ray had less luck, and milled around until he found it, then set off to number 12, navigating from the centre of number 11, which was not where he was in the forest so got confused. He dropped 5 mins, I dropped a minute or so. Managed to avoid getting Rachel Browned, as did he by a few secs. Phew! The majority of competitors didn't have a problem with 11 which makes you wonder what their usual navigation technique is. Go in the direction that sort of feels right for a distance that sort of feels right, then sweep search the terrain???
All good clean fun, with, juice, cake, balloons and stickers at the end. Top notch hosting.