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Sunday May 7, 2017 #
11 AM
Orienteering race 31:43 **** 3.82 km (8:18 / km) +131m 7:05 / km
ahr:152 max:173 spiked:15/18c shoes: VJ Integrator 2017 dobs
O: British Relays, Men's Short - Leg 3 (3.5 km). Bronze medal.
Genuinely surprised by this. Peter brought us in in a close 4th place, then Trevor had a solid run but I had no idea in what position I started. Still worried about my ankle, but my legs were very tired after yesterday, so it was 'slow and steady' mode from the off. Given the technicality of the area this was probably a good tactic, but I still managed to duff 30s at nos. 4 and 5.
By #6 my legs had finally warmed up and I started going along pretty well. From #9 on I saw Ian Marsden and was running more strongly than him, but each time I would scoot past, get the control, punch it and start off again, only to see him sail in with his SI Air card and sail off again without slowing. I finally got away after #15 and put the boot in, and had saved enough to leg it from #18 to the finish.
I was quite satisfied with my run until I downloaded, and was told that I "had a problem" - hmm, I hadn't punched ANY of the right controls. But I'd punched all of the ones on my map. Wrong map or wrong course, I left it with them to sort out. This became slightly higher stakes when Trevor told me that he thought I had finished in 3rd place - ah! So, back I went 40 minutes later, to find that my map and splits were AWOL (in the large heap of maps awaiting "correction"!) but we worked out that I had been entered in a different team, so got that changed and, phew, no mispunch. Oops, podium. Unexpected, but I'll take it. Think I'll retire now. :-)
TRIMP 74.6.
Genuinely surprised by this. Peter brought us in in a close 4th place, then Trevor had a solid run but I had no idea in what position I started. Still worried about my ankle, but my legs were very tired after yesterday, so it was 'slow and steady' mode from the off. Given the technicality of the area this was probably a good tactic, but I still managed to duff 30s at nos. 4 and 5.
By #6 my legs had finally warmed up and I started going along pretty well. From #9 on I saw Ian Marsden and was running more strongly than him, but each time I would scoot past, get the control, punch it and start off again, only to see him sail in with his SI Air card and sail off again without slowing. I finally got away after #15 and put the boot in, and had saved enough to leg it from #18 to the finish.
I was quite satisfied with my run until I downloaded, and was told that I "had a problem" - hmm, I hadn't punched ANY of the right controls. But I'd punched all of the ones on my map. Wrong map or wrong course, I left it with them to sort out. This became slightly higher stakes when Trevor told me that he thought I had finished in 3rd place - ah! So, back I went 40 minutes later, to find that my map and splits were AWOL (in the large heap of maps awaiting "correction"!) but we worked out that I had been entered in a different team, so got that changed and, phew, no mispunch. Oops, podium. Unexpected, but I'll take it. Think I'll retire now. :-)
TRIMP 74.6.
Running warm up/down 8:21 0.91 km (9:11 / km) +16m 8:27 / km
ahr:131 max:138 shoes: VJ Integrator 2017 dobs
Wee jog to go and find Jamie, who had been out on his Orange for over an hour when I finished. Found him quite quickly - he'd had a mare on 6,7 and 8 but was nearly back. It was a tough course for his second Orange!