Orienteering race (City of London Race) 1:09:51 [5] **** 15.5 km (4:30 / km)
slept:5.0
Good race and really enjoyed it. Decided to do the long Open Men's race this year as really wanted to see how I would go on teh lionger course after doing teh vets race the last three eyars. Prob should have stayed on eth vets course :-) as this was and felt like a long run! Was pretty tired teh whole race and had a real flat spot in teh middle wher ei felt like I was about to have another heart episode and slowed down quite a bit. However, picked up towards the end. Navigationally, lost time at a few controls, esp teh third control in the Barbican where I was on the wrong level and had to backtrack and go down a level (2 mins). Also had a couple of instances of missing small entrances to a cemetry and a building (20 secs each) and 4 cases of not seing the control despite being within 10m of the flag (5-10 secs each). I could probably taken 4-5 mins off my time, but overall pretty pleased with it. Came 43rd out of 200+ so not bad for an old bloke. Will definitely be back next year, this time to do teh Vets race (prob would have come top 5 in Vets based on km rates and course difficulty).
Orienteering warm up/down 10:00 [2]
Not much time for a warmup, but that is prob okay as facing a long day on teh road :-)