Running - Trail race (Parkrun - Watergrove) 20:45 [5] 5.0 km (4:09 / km) +115m 3:43 / km
ahr:134 max:147 (injured) shoes: Salomon Fellraiser
Really good Parkrun. Up in the moors, starting by the side of a reservoir and then two out+back sections up hills. Nothing massively steep though. My biggest problem was the 500m section, that you did twice, of cobbles which were very very slippery and off-road shoes gave no grip whatsoever. Downhill was marginally better than uphill, but that reason alone would mean the course is probably a minute faster in the dry. Would wear road shoes next time whatever I think, although some of the other bits of the course then become a bit iffy.
5th up until about halfway, then 3 and 4 were rubbish at the hills or started too fast. Very nearly caught 2 as well but he turned around and saw me at the end and sped up. The winner was miles ahead of us both.
Extensor still sore but it's a niggle rather than extremely painful, so I'm going to ignore it.
Orienteering - Forest race (Midgley Moor) 54:51 [5] 7.49 km (7:19 / km) +243m 6:18 / km
ahr:134 max:149 (injured) shoes: X-Talon 212 (May 17)
60min score. It's no secret that I hate scores, but this was the only event on today and I though the area sounded nice. Which it was. Ran in a coat since it was compulsory to carry one and I didn't want to.happy with that decision, it wasn't that cold but was very windy so wasn't uncomfortable.
Just made a route up as I went along.
Attempted 17 controls but only found 15 of them; shame as it would have been a good result if I'd found them I think (no results yet). One of them was on a line of grouse butts where I turned R instead of L; then I knew the control was 100m behind me but decided not to go back. Would easily have had time for this (but obvs I didn't know that at the time). With no mistakes and lots of confidence there might just about have been time for all 20, but no-one got them all. Map was good other than the burnt/open bits of heather being in the wrong places - map is from 2012 so this is unsurprising!
Some time lost in the complex contour section trying to go too fast and not simplifying enough. Then the other control I didn't find was on a tiny pond in the middle of the heather; I didn't really have an AP but pretty sure I was roughly in the right place, and the GPS agrees (can't see the pond from the aerial view so don't know how close I was, even) and decided not to spend any time looking for it. Finished with 5 mins 10 left; probably enough time to have found it.
Never mind, nice place to spend an hour, and good excuse to try the local parkrun.
Shin good, right knee hurting a bit and still the extensor tendonitis painful.