Orienteering race (Forest) 45:00 [3]
shoes: inov-8 oroc 280
Picked up Dave & Chris from the club hut on the way to the Winter Series event. Started first, a couple mins before Dave.
Pretty sizeable mistakes at 1, 5 and 9, by which point Dave overtook me. I was surprised it took him that long but looking at the splits he made similar sized mistakes and certainly didn't look like he was putting that much effort in physically.
I should have just followed him to 10 - I had identified earlier as the control that might be a problem not having a compass but if I had bothered to look a bit closer there was a path leading almost straight to it. 'The easiest control on the course' Chris suggested :(
I missed it twice. Then ran off towards 11 and got a branch tangled in my glasses. It bent them up and popped out one of the lenses. Looked around in the snow for it for a while then gave up and...
Running warm up/down (XC/Terrain) 18:15 [1]
shoes: inov-8 oroc 280
...jogged back to the finish - didn't want to continue without decent sight with that much ice about, reallly didn't want to risk falling on the same spot.
A woman (not an orienteer) who saw me looking for the lens started helping me look. Anyway it turned out that she continued looking after I gave up, found it and then stopped another orienteer and asked him to give it to me, which he did in the changing rooms. Thanks, anonymous woman... my glasses live!