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Sunday May 6, 2007 #
Orienteering race 40:57 [4] 6.5 km (6:18 / km) +110m 5:49 / km
shoes: New silver o shoes
After selection dilemmas, the first team was decided as me, Nick and Neil in that order. I tried to put the horrible memories of my last British relay first leg run on an open area (Penhale) out of my head and focus on getting round cleanly.
Started off a little too steady, but picked up places on the slog across the heather from controls 1 to 3. By then, a pack of me, Duncan, Andy L, Rich and Ian had broken away. It turned out that Duncan, Andy and I had the same gaffle and at the spectator control we had dropped Rich but Ian was still there on the other gaffle. Andy tired a little on the last section and I managed to pull out a minute on him and hand over to Nick in 2nd, just a few seconds down on Duncan. Job done.
Nick had a strong run, and came back 20 secs up on Marcus, setting Neil and Oli off on a last leg shoot off. We had worked out they had the same gaffle, and when they came through the spectator control neck and neck it was getting very exciting. Neil made a small miss and Oli took his opportunity to get ahead and held that until the end. Great race.
And the excitement didn't stop there. Rob outsprinted Joe Mercer to taker the bronze medal for our second team. Brilliant!
Started off a little too steady, but picked up places on the slog across the heather from controls 1 to 3. By then, a pack of me, Duncan, Andy L, Rich and Ian had broken away. It turned out that Duncan, Andy and I had the same gaffle and at the spectator control we had dropped Rich but Ian was still there on the other gaffle. Andy tired a little on the last section and I managed to pull out a minute on him and hand over to Nick in 2nd, just a few seconds down on Duncan. Job done.
Nick had a strong run, and came back 20 secs up on Marcus, setting Neil and Oli off on a last leg shoot off. We had worked out they had the same gaffle, and when they came through the spectator control neck and neck it was getting very exciting. Neil made a small miss and Oli took his opportunity to get ahead and held that until the end. Great race.
And the excitement didn't stop there. Rob outsprinted Joe Mercer to taker the bronze medal for our second team. Brilliant!
Running 25:00 [3] 5.0 km (5:00 / km)
shoes: New silver o shoes
Warm up and warm down. Feet pretty sore after the race so not a very long or comprehensive warm down.
Note
It's been a great weekend for Sheffield based athletes with lots of medals in the individual and relay events. Congratulations to everybody. The mens relay podium was especially good.
We finished the weekend off nicely with about 25 of us going out for a meal and few celebratory drinks.
We finished the weekend off nicely with about 25 of us going out for a meal and few celebratory drinks.