Orienteering race (long distance) 2:18:01 [2] **** 10.8 km (12:47 / km) +330m 11:05 / km
spiked:17/22c
Bad start, double checked compass at the triangle and still headed off 45 degrees in the wrong direction. More time lost at 2, had a bit of a self-talking-to about how I hadn't been very good this weekend at developing plans, good 3-5 and started to feel like my fitness would get me through as well. Then ran past 6, not big time loss but demoralising to come just when things were beginning to come together. On the way to 7 started getting pissed off about the number of fences (I was having an awkward fence crossing day) so not in the right state of mind to encounter the mother of all fences on the way to 8. By the time I'd negotiated this I had little interest in continuing, but decided to carry on at least until I stopped transferring my pissed-off-ness from myself onto the organisers. Climb up to 11 finished my legs off, and from there it was a long, slow, sore, but mostly accurate, walk round the rest of the course.