Orienteering race (Xmas5daysday3RockyFalls) 31:00 [4] *** 4.0 km (7:45 / km)
spiked:6/8c shoes: Inov 8 Bare-Grip
Pulled out about half - 2/3 of the way through the course today. Blisters from Khali's Rocks were just too much to run/walk on without significant pain. Felt like such a pussy for pulling out because of blisters but these were next level. Nav was fine. Bit low on #1 cost about 15 seconds. Oggo (It's gonna catch on) caught me a minute by half way through control 3, which was expected cause I was trundling along pretty slowly. Todd caught me 2 mins by the time I got to control 3, gutted! Lost about a minute - 2 mins on # 6 because I got sucked down into the wrong gully... what a moron! Ah well. #7 and #8 really inflamed my blisters badly running along the side of hills. Macey caught me 6 mins by #7. By this time I was slowly plodding trying to maintain a run. Decided to pull out at #8 as I was barely capable of a walk. Replacing those inov8s stat! The trudge back was alright :)