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Monday Aug 3, 2009 #
Orienteering race 35:08 [4] 3.9 mi (9:01 / mi)
shoes: VJ Integrator (8.5)
Scottish 6 days Day 2. Middle race in a small area of woodland just outside Perth. It was so close to where we are staying that we just walked up to the assembly area!
Again, I started off poorly, missing the first control by nearly a minute, getting slightly too low on number 2, and not reading the map properly on three and losing another 30 seconds. I also fell over while looking for three and cut my wrist. It wasn't a big fall, but when I looked at my hand it was covered in blood, and blood was running across my palm and dripping off my finger. I wiped it off on my trousers and kept going, but for the next five minutes or so there seemed to be a lot of blood! As always though, when cleaned up it's hardly even a scratch!
Got focussed after number three, and ran the middle section quite well, but still a few hesitations. Speaky caught me 4 minutes at number 13 (out of 15), and I was with him for about 50 metres before he ran away from me down a brashing covered slope while I was being a pansy.
Think I'll end up about 5 minutes down, which I'm happy with. It felt smoother than yesterday, and without the mistakes I could have been much closer, which wasn't the case on Day 1.
Again, I started off poorly, missing the first control by nearly a minute, getting slightly too low on number 2, and not reading the map properly on three and losing another 30 seconds. I also fell over while looking for three and cut my wrist. It wasn't a big fall, but when I looked at my hand it was covered in blood, and blood was running across my palm and dripping off my finger. I wiped it off on my trousers and kept going, but for the next five minutes or so there seemed to be a lot of blood! As always though, when cleaned up it's hardly even a scratch!
Got focussed after number three, and ran the middle section quite well, but still a few hesitations. Speaky caught me 4 minutes at number 13 (out of 15), and I was with him for about 50 metres before he ran away from me down a brashing covered slope while I was being a pansy.
Think I'll end up about 5 minutes down, which I'm happy with. It felt smoother than yesterday, and without the mistakes I could have been much closer, which wasn't the case on Day 1.
Running warm up/down 17:07 [2] 1.8 mi (9:31 / mi)
shoes: VJ Integrator (8.5)
Run from the assembly area back to where we are staying.