Orienteering race 54:54** 9.87 km (5:34 / km) +170m5:07 / km ahr:156 max:165 shoes: Inov-8 X-Talon 212
Heart was good today which makes it much more fun. Started the day at the back of a group of 7 within about 2 minutes and really enjoyed trying to be as fast and efficient as possible but didn't make much progress. Moved up one spot I think. Only real problem was drifting a bit right on the long leg to 6, failing to turn back to the left after contouring around a spur and then feeling a little disoriented for a while afterwards but it probably cost less than 30 seconds. Beat Blair again today but still almost a minute down overall. A bit too fast and easy to make much of a move today and I'm still just too slow even when my heart is behaving.
Kept a bit of an eye on the pace of the M40s and concluded that I'll need to get a bit fitter before I'll be ready to move up.