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Sunday Mar 13, 2016 #
12 PM
ORIENTEERING race 1:07:09 [3] *** 11.82 km (5:41 / km) +130m 5:23 / km
ahr:165 max:207 spiked:18/23c shoes: Inov8 Mudclaw
CompassSport Cup Heat - M21 - 8th
My first race out of London and into the forest this year. A really nice day with the sun coming out. I was keen to see how the ankles would hold up and what my terrain fitness was like. The forest was quite wet and muddy underfoot, which mad for tough going in places, and a lot of small water channels running everywhere whose depth and dryness was often masked by leaf cover. Despite this I managed to keep a fairly consistent pace throughout the course. Navigationally I was fairly clean. Lost a little bit of time (30s) going too straight to number eight and lost a good 90s on control nineteen when I pulled up short and second guessed where I was. There were also three other controls where my approach direction was off (always to the right) and so I lost maybe 10-15s on each coming back across to the circle. All in all a fairly pleasing first outing for the year and good to be back running in the forest.
Note: Also at the race today, I was handed a certificate. Turns out that last year I won the South East Orienteering Association Individual League - M21. Pretty happy with that :D
My first race out of London and into the forest this year. A really nice day with the sun coming out. I was keen to see how the ankles would hold up and what my terrain fitness was like. The forest was quite wet and muddy underfoot, which mad for tough going in places, and a lot of small water channels running everywhere whose depth and dryness was often masked by leaf cover. Despite this I managed to keep a fairly consistent pace throughout the course. Navigationally I was fairly clean. Lost a little bit of time (30s) going too straight to number eight and lost a good 90s on control nineteen when I pulled up short and second guessed where I was. There were also three other controls where my approach direction was off (always to the right) and so I lost maybe 10-15s on each coming back across to the circle. All in all a fairly pleasing first outing for the year and good to be back running in the forest.
Note: Also at the race today, I was handed a certificate. Turns out that last year I won the South East Orienteering Association Individual League - M21. Pretty happy with that :D