Orienteering 1:28:45 [4] *** 11.33 km (7:50 / km) +395m 6:40 / km
spiked:22/26c shoes: 2006 VJ Falcons
LOK Regional, Holmbury Hill, M21L. Really nice area, bracken was down so running was fast (and felt pretty good for once!).
Thought I'd try to push it a bit more today, caught Jon M and Per quite quickly but maybe the latter was a mistake - especially when it went all Per shaped on #16 in a maze of rhodo bushes, should have taken the simpler option... Then overshot #17 and drifted on #18 which meant running through more rhodo. Had learnt from my mistake earlier and let Per disappear into the distance straight past #20 while I punched and ran off. Silly error on the penultimate control left me 200m south of where wanted to be. Might blame that on the wet weather meaning shoes became untaped and had to keep stopping to do them up (probably cost 2 or 3 mins on its own!), but more likely I just switched off. Still, at the beginning of the run I spiked 15 consecutive controls, tis a rarity so that's a definite positive.