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Sunday Jun 25, 2017 #
5 AM
Orienteering race 1:29:04 ***** 8.78 km (10:09 / km) +447m 8:05 / km
ahr:139 max:175 shoes: VJ Integrator 2017 dobs
Leg 4 of the Harvester at Blakeholme - 6.25km, second team for FVO after Fraser, Jon and Trevor. Rather apprehensive about this, not least when I heard Fraser come to wake up Trevor a good half-hour after I was expecting him to, with the comment "there'll be some long times out there". So it proved, when Jon didn't wake me up for a further 2h30mins! At least this meant that I wouldn't be running my night leg in the dark after all, unless Trevor had a blinder - he didn't.
Despite my best intentions to play it very safe on the first, very tricky, control, I missed my path junction and proceeded to stuff it up royally, dumping a good 10 minutes, alas. So I was surprised to see Graham MacIntyre, who had set off just before me, a mere three uneventful (for me) controls later. I kept seeing him thereafter, taking different lines but unable to run away from him as my groin was by now giving me a lot of gip. I was OK until #15 which I missed and lost about 5 minutes - he got clear then. I was steady enough myself thereafter, so it was an OK run, but I'd have been happier to be 10 minutes faster. Oh well, just surviving in that terrain was something of a result; it really was rock hard, and not terribly pleasant. Broken before I started and decidedly broken by the time I finished!
Didn't enjoy the 2.5km walk back to the car, carrying all the kit! TRIMP 156.
Great result for the FVO first team, with stand-out runs by Mark on leg 2, Marcus on leg 4 and Jegor on the anchor leg.
Despite my best intentions to play it very safe on the first, very tricky, control, I missed my path junction and proceeded to stuff it up royally, dumping a good 10 minutes, alas. So I was surprised to see Graham MacIntyre, who had set off just before me, a mere three uneventful (for me) controls later. I kept seeing him thereafter, taking different lines but unable to run away from him as my groin was by now giving me a lot of gip. I was OK until #15 which I missed and lost about 5 minutes - he got clear then. I was steady enough myself thereafter, so it was an OK run, but I'd have been happier to be 10 minutes faster. Oh well, just surviving in that terrain was something of a result; it really was rock hard, and not terribly pleasant. Broken before I started and decidedly broken by the time I finished!
Didn't enjoy the 2.5km walk back to the car, carrying all the kit! TRIMP 156.
Great result for the FVO first team, with stand-out runs by Mark on leg 2, Marcus on leg 4 and Jegor on the anchor leg.