Running warm up/down 40:00 [2] 6.0 km (6:40 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 x-talon 190
Warm up inc planning a course on warm up map, then jog after with carcas.
Orienteering 14:15 [4] **** 3.68 km (3:52 / km) +25m 3:45 / km
spiked:19/22c shoes: Inov-8 x-talon 190
Warwick Uni Selection Sprint.
Looking forward to this one and preparation had gone well. Had a rough idea of how the course would go from the position of the start and worked out 1 in the start box so settled nicely. Moving and planning well on the first section but forgot the hedge gap to 4 losing a little time. Went wide on 5 for a nice flow but maybe lost a couple of seconds there. In the accommodation I felt like all my time was spent planning and executing not opening the legs up so never really felt like there was any effort on the running here, got the slightly longer route on 8 and missed the snicket in the hedge on 11 but all reasonably clean. 14/15 fine but route to 16 was suboptimal, missed the crossable wall and should have gone left to start with anyway. The rest of the course passed without incident and kept pushing to the end which paid off to take 2nd. Overall planning was good but maybe could take a bit more time to look at other routes not just picking one and going with it. As I said earlier, legs never really got turning, so possibly could have been more aggressive with the pace but this could have compromised the nav, better decision was staying clean. Fun course.