Orienteering warm up/down (Forest) 12:00 [2] 1.7 km (7:04 / km)
Gribskov. H21E pre-start. I really liked this 6 control warm-up in terrain, practicing control flow and getting used to the map, I think it helped a lot.
Orienteering race (Forest) 1:29:02 [4] **** 13.1 km (6:48 / km)
spiked:19/25c
Gribskov. Not feeling totally fresh for this and didn't help matters by trying to keep up with some other elites that I caught up (they made mistakes) a few times. Proper hit the wall right near the end and finished well slow. Navigating really well tho and kept contact with the map 99% of the time.
3. Didn't read the descr (S side, inside) and ran all the way around the thicket b4 checking the one next to it. Sure I had the right one to start with went back and saw the SI unit poking out.
8. In the circle saw the other runners I kept catching up running strongly away from where I imagined the boulder to be. Turned out they were running strongly towards it.
11. Hesitated N of the feature but quickly realised.
15. Went in too early, saw Nails running away from a spur with a flag so I ran to it, punched but not my code.
16. Playing chicken with a train. Came out on a railway track, saw a train approaching, crossed, got honked at, realised the control was back over the other side, crossed again, got honked at a lot. Scary. Then watched the train honking at some other runners a bit further down the track.
19. A bit ruined by this point, ran to the depression W of the pit, punched, checked the code and then the penny dropped.
I lost time on 20, 22, 23 and 24 as well but not navigational error, just cream crackered. Walked to the path to 20, navigated perfectly to 22 using the clearings as my attack points, came out on the ride, stopped and thought to myself I bet the control is down this ride, and it was once I'd walked to it. Walked a lot to 23, stood at the edge of the depression looking at a control, I thought that's my control, I better go and punch it and so on and so on. Interestingly I was 73rd for 22 even with the walking only bettered by 52nd for 13 where I was running with Nails.
Back a bit sore towards the end of the race and afterwards but sorted it with a bit of stretching.