Running warm up/down 10:00 [2] 1.5 km (6:40 / km)
shoes: Saucony Peregrine 4 (Red)
Jog up to the start plus some drills
Orienteering race 55:36 [4] 5.99 km (9:17 / km) +130m 8:22 / km
shoes: VJ Integrators
British Middle Championships. First couple of controls were laughably bad, took the direct route to 1 when the path would have been faster so I got stuck climbing over fallen trees instead of heading up the path, sigh. Again for number 2 I decided not to take the path but to go straight, hit a different depression to the one I thought I was on and so ended up about 30m off, standing looking at the path wondering what I had done. Number 3 again I hit a different depression to the one I thought I was aiming for and ended up running in circles for a bit until I decided to go back to the depressions and attack again. Also coming out of the depression the first time my calf went which was just what I needed.
Just about remembered how to map read at this point, slightly missed number 4 as the patch of green was a bit harder to identify on the ground. It wasnt as big as I had thought it would be. Pretty clean from here to 16 just with a few longer route choices. Coming out of 16 a W18 decided to elbow me very hard in the back which was very pleasant but then she cocked up the next control and ended up coming into it behind me which I was fairly pleased about. I was too low into 17 but identified I was on the lower pit and corrected accordingly. Not too much time lost.
19-20 I made a huuuuge mistake, for some reason I decided not to take the path route (again) but instead of creating a decent plan I set off on a fairly vague bearing. Hit the 'road' and climbed up the hill to hit the first of 2 paths. Only I wasnt on the road, I was on a small path further up, fought my way up through the green and hit a path, to which I thought execellent its just across to then next path then down to the rough open. 10s later, who the hell put a fence there. Then I realised where I was, on the flipping path route I had decided not to take have made a detour through some not nice undergrowth to get there. Sigh. At least now I had a decent attack point.
The rest of the course was fairly easy so no more mistakes. Just a bit frustrating as most of my mistakes wouldnt have happened if I had trusted my gut and run the path routes.
Running warm up/down 6:30 [3] 1.0 km (6:30 / km)
shoes: VJ Integrators
Hobbled round the field as a warm down. Calf very sore