Orienteering race 1:55:36 [5] ***** 19.0 km (6:05 / km)
spiked:33/36c
WOC long final and a tough race, as expected. Finished 23rd, which is quite far down on my goals, but strangely I'm not as disappointed as I would have expected. I ran a good race, pushed hard at the start and hung in there at the end. There were a few small mistakes along the way, particularly in the last few controls which visited a tricky green area. But my main time loss came from some aggressive route-choices - I ran a quite straight route on the longest leg taking on some serious climbs. It maybe cost me around 1.30, but crucially it made me suffer more than the round routes might have done.
But in the end it's impossible to be too disappointed in a long distance like this when you've done your best and run your hardest. It's so tight for the top results these days! Great run from Jamie for 10th and from Scott for 21st, a good team performance!
Running 30:00 [2] 4.0 km (7:30 / km)
Good warm up and no warm down at all until a few hours, lunch and a beer later, when I went for an easy 10 with Scott.