Orienteering - Urban race (Liverpool Uni Sprint (S)) 18:13 [5] 4.11 km (4:26 / km) +16m 4:21 / km
shoes: Brooks Ravenna 9
Great area for a sprint; really technical with no multi-level potential unfairness.
Missed a multitude of the best routes; had the excuse on #2 that #1 was very short and didn't have any planning time, but didn't have that excuse for any other legs. Lost time on 2, 7, 9 - the rest are more marginal I think.
3rd when I finished, not seen any updated results yet. Running felt ok until I actually tried to sprint(ish) and then felt tough.
Orienteering - Urban race (Liverpool Uni Sprint (N)) 18:44 [5] 4.19 km (4:28 / km) +32m 4:18 / km
shoes: Brooks Ravenna 9
Hilly compared to the first one! Elected not to wait the scheduled 80 mins from the start of the first race and started 30 mins early.
For possibly the first time ever, looking at the map in the start lane paid off and I nailed #1, but then punched an extra one on the way to 2 and got confused, probably eliminating all my good work. Such is life.
Not sure if I missed many routes here; conditioned by the first race to be a bit more choosy. Just two near the end, 12-13 interesting leg, up/down c.50 steps or 1.5x the distance with no climb - I went for the extra distance but would be interesting to compare splits. 13-14 I went for the up/down route rather than slightly further with only c.25 steps, that was probably a bad call.
Definitely finding the running tougher on this second race and not going as fast as the first; probably why it felt like I did less wrong but it looked like I was further behind the leading time.
Another three weeks before more O now - am I still an orienteer? It wasn't long ago when a three week gap would have been unthinkable...