Orienteering race 41:31*** 5.72 km (7:15 / km) +209m6:08 / km ahr:154 max:167 spiked:10/14c (injured)shoes: Salomon Fellraiser
Green at the ELO SOSOL at Lothian Edge. Lovely sunny day, knee was good after yesterday, and the area was open grassy moorland, so I decided to go out easy and see how far I got at 75% effort. Breezed along steady/easy, being careful not to stride out or extend the knee, but it still started to pop out and en route from #8 - #9 it started to become noticeably impeded. So I dialled things back further to 60% and ran very gingerly. No real mistakes, just a couple of vegetation-induced awkward control access time losses, ca. 2 mins. So that, coupled with the reduced effort, probably equated to 7 mins off the target pace. I was still 9m30s ahead of 1st place Terry when I finished (whoops!) but was spared his ire when it was determined that I'd mis-punched #9. I knew immediately what I'd done, distracted by the worsening knee I'd stopped reading the map, looked up and saw a control in roughly the right place, and was too worried about looking for an easy route out of the control to check the code. Silly stuff, but I should probably have been n/c anyway.
Note from later - knee painful and out of whack. Sigh. TRIMP 103.3.
Torrie-Thornhill circuit, first time in a while. Knee felt OK and my newly-fitted suspensed seat post seemed to be helping my back, so I pushed on over the hill from Torrie to Thornhill rather than just turn back. The good omens stayed good to the end of the ride - only a little back stiffness and no knee issues to report at all. Result! Lovely clear views of the snowy hills, too. TRIMP 152.3