orienteering 56:30 [5] 7.5 km (7:32 / km) +400m 5:57 / km
An incredibly tough race. Tired from if start and the heat started affecting me from around four. Dodgy route choice to five but still got it without wasting too much time and then clean but slow through to the drinks control. Quick drink then a cup over my head before running on feeling refreshed,this lasted for around half a minute and by thirteen i was destroyed. Lost some time on the next couple of controls, just losing control due to being so tired. Coming through to the fourth to last control i think i was in fourth. I was feeling totally destroyed and for the first time in a long time i stopped still for about ten seconds resting. Pretty pathetic. This had allowed for a good look at my map and i pushed on to eighteen feeling confident. Half was i must have lost some focussed and i found myself going down the hill towards nineteen. I realised this when at nineteen and took eighteen fine before going for it back to nineteen (i knew where it was and for this reason think i may have got fastest split:L). Three seconds off sixth place today which again is a bit annoying but pleased with the consistency of my results which i have lacked a lot recently.