Orienteering race (City of London Race) 52:36 [4] 7.7 km (6:50 / km)
shoes: Inov8 Terroc 330
What an awesome event. Really enjoyed it despite getting properly thrown off-scent by the split-level Barbican centre.
Was worried about my knee, but it only really affected me climbing steps and making sharp left-turns. Quads were still aching after my two little runs during the week.
Ran well and almost perfectly up to #18. Then 19 was the first change in height and I got caught-out. 20, again, was thrown by the height difference, but I should have trusted my initial convictions and gone right to the top of the staircase instead of changing my mind half way up and going back down to street level again. Then I gallantly led Simon Branford towards 21, but for some reason I ran to 24 and punched it before I realised it wasn't 21. Another big time loss at 25 as me and Simon stopped to dicuss how the hell to get to it.
There seemed little point in trying to outrun Simon because as soon as I had shaken him off he was back on me after I'd stopped to try and make sense of the thick black lines and light grey shading.
Still, a great race, and I'm keen to do more of these city race things.