Orienteering race 1:00:30 [4] 9.5 km (6:22 / km)
shoes: VJ Falcon
WMOC Final - Hedley Dunes - 8.4Km
Not quite sure what to make of that. Felt like the race fell apart badly towards the end and was really disappointed when I finished, particularly as I was down to second almost immediately with lots of runners still to finish. Went for a long sulky warm down where I couldn't hear the commentary, got back, looked at the results and got quite a surprise.
Physically the whole thing felt like a struggle. Was very tired towards the end and never felt fast, but think other people were finding it tough as well. SI and hamstring were sore while running and very sore afterwards but managed to run through the pain.
Technically not bad until a slight miss at 16 led to my glasses steaming up. From then on, a real struggle as I couldn't read the map or see the ground properly. Lost about 40s on the way to 2 missing a path junction and having to literally crawl through cutty grass. Then lost 30s to 12 when I was on target, but saw another control and went to it. Then 1 min on 16. Missed it slightly, and then couldn't recover when the glasses steamed up. Couldn't read the map at all to 17 so just tried to go on the compass and didn't get anywhere near, losing about 40s. Then lost about 20s on 19 and 30s on 22 through not having a clear picture.
Caught JonX 4 mins at 2, and saw him quite a bit, but without any real assistance. He finally got ahead 16-17 and finished about a minute before me.
Could easily have won, but in retrospect very happy just to have got through the week given where I was a few days ago.