Orienteering race (JOK Sprint Prologue) 22:01 [5]
shoes: adidas swoops
Feeling very sleepy, but actually fine in the legs and in control racing well - haven't felt like that for some time. A 10seconder on number 4 and a 20seconder on number 7 were a tad annoying, but all in all a pleasing return to form and the achilles was fine. Neil had a very good run to win by 13secs. He was even faster mpks than GG did in 2005 - wow! That's amazing! GG is so good!
Orienteering race (JOK Sprint Final) 20:30 [5]
shoes: adidas swoops
Took the lead at number 1 and navigated smoothly and cleanly round the small depressions in the first half with Neil closely watching my every move. Wouldn't have been able to just run away from Neil, but just wanted to stay in front and hope he got demoralised. He overtook me on 2 controls after the spectator control and suddenly I felt really tired being behind and was tempted to settle for 2nd. But put a spurt in up the hill which really hurt and hoped that overtaking Neil would make him feel all tired again. I think it worked but I had to make sure I spiked all the last few controls. Cracking race, cracking area, lots of fun and some proper head-to-head pressure that we don't get very often in the UK.
Running 40:00 [2]
shoes: adidas swoops
Various warming up and down, jogging to starts and such like.