Orienteering race 2:07:12 [4] **** 6.3 km (20:11 / km) +250m 16:51 / km
spiked:11/19c shoes: Inov8 MudClaw 300
JK Day 2 - Ulpha Park and Barrow Fell - W18L - 3.9km
Hahahaha. Don't think I've orienteered this badly since I was about 5... Never got into the right frame of mind and wasn't concentrating at all, dropped 7mins on #1, not reading the map properly at all and messing around, I have no idea what I was thinking. Confidence blown immediately and screwed up #3 as well, didn't orientate properly leaving #2 and hit the wrong side of the wall. Let it get to me and never calmed down enough to stop faffing and relocate properly, lost ~12mins, so annoyed. Enjoyed the open area, shame we only had 3 controls on it.. Back in the wood, lost 4mins getting distracted to #8. Overshot #9 but generally had a good plan for once, lost ~6mins. Twinge in my foot had turned very painful even to walk on, slope making it even worse. Managed to do a few okay but biggest mistake at #13. Lost ~16mins. Didn't plan properly and drifted completely off line, couldn't relocate at all. Shouldn't have let it get to me but I was fuming and really angry at myself for such an awful run, basically beyond caring and didn't have the energy for running up the hill. Hit #14 and worked back from there. Rest simple but slid most of the way to #18, completely dehydrated and exhausted and just fell every other step.
So so so not happy. Some of the most technical orienteering I've done and completely messed it all up.