orienteering (Rocky Paddock) 34:00 [3] 4.5 km (7:33 / km)
shoes: Asics Gel 2130
Last night I found some spare maps from the training I set on Rocky Paddock a year ago, so I talked John, Lauren, Simon & Bridget into meeting up there at 8am before we went to the official OASA training day. There were no tapes out, and I loaned Lauren my compass, but I know the area pretty well and so everything came up much as I was expecting it to. One control I went in circles on but I think that rock is mapped too low, only one where my "bearing" was wide, plus I ran to 13 instead of 11 because my course was overdrawn on an old map so it looked like spaghetti, but I still held the girls off, just. Of course they probably started about a week after me...
All of me felt great with the exception of my left leg between knee and ankle. From now on, unless I actually say that it doesn't hurt when running, then the default interpretation is that it did.
orienteering (Three Chain Break) 49:39 [4] 6.5 km (7:38 / km)
shoes: Asics Gel 2130
We didn't really expect any of the training exercises on offer to appeal to us but were curious about the "choose your own adventure" option. This turned out to be a master map of all controls on to which people could copy whichever course they saw fit. So we made up 5 short courses (0.9-1.2km maybe?), on 5 different maps, all starting from the crossroads, and ran each of them in turn, regrouping and swapping maps in between each mini-course. Bridget crash-landed heavily on a log and so sat out the last one, but at least we were vaguely sympathetic.
9:10 (freshest)
8:52 (shortest)
9:23 (did a dodgy compassless bearing)
11:36 (longest)
10:37 (most hills)
This was good fun and made the most of a not-exactly-exotic area and made me run harder than I otherwise would have.