Orienteering warm up/down 20:00 [3] 1.5 km (13:20 / km)
shoes: olway speed
W/u ~ Ran to the start with Jonny, into the wind agh! Then I walked up the really steep bit, stretched.
W/d ~ Ran back from finish, then after went for a warm down with Jonny down the bike path:).
Wanted to go out and enjoy the course and come back feeling i'd had a good run, not worrying about anyone else. I failed...
Orienteering race 1:17:19 [4] 6.1 km (12:40 / km) +125m 11:30 / km
spiked:12/20c shoes: olway speed
Keilder Day 1
Nice and close for an event and was plesently surprised, usually it's really grotty down there but today there was some open and actually some white forest:)
Well, Jane (Jonny's mum) started behind me and I really didn't want her to catch me as I would never have lived it down.
First two went okish, then 3 was really bad as I was in the right place just was put of my an unmarked stream, Jonny also got lost in this area so was kinda iffy.... But on my way out I saw Jane coming in so knew I had to get it right.
A bit messy on 4, 5 was fine and then ran past 6 but relocated well. 7 ok again but 8 just ran and didn't read map resulting in me having to run back up hill. 9,10 ok. Then on 11 I started ok then didn't read the map so had to come back up hill again. 12 was in the wrong place. 13, 14 ok. Again on 15 I started off ok and then didn't read the map so had to come back up the hill.
Got out onto the track going to 16 and it was raining and felt good so ran hard but missed cut off so decided to just cut through green, was tough and then was met by a over dad's height fence!! So had no choice but to come back. On the map its marked as a crossable ruined fence! Absolutely scratched from the dark green:( Then the map was wrong again as the crag was wayyyyyy further down hill and not in trees (Jane also said it was wrong) so glad it wasn't just me making a big mess of it.
Rest ok really but 18 was like almost in a pond!!!!!! But after all that I beat Jane, I was worried:P
Noticed today that a lot of my mistakes come from having a plan to begin with, starting of executing plan then losing contact/not keeping contact with map. Going to really focus on stopping this tomorrow. Also a few of my mistakes weren't really my fault today:P....