Orienteering race 1:03:28 9.69 km (6:33 / km) +153m6:04 / km ahr:162 max:170
Harvester Relays. Team finished 2nd, and 1st Handicap.
Leg 4 for the SYO A team. Went out in the lead with Mark Bown, but couldn't quite match his pace and by #4 I was on my own. Struggled several times to find the end of small rides and indistinct paths, so ended up wading through bramble and bracken in the forest a couple of times. Lost about 12 minutes to Mark by the end of the leg, but was still in 2nd place.
12 PM
Orienteering race 35:31 7.84 km (4:32 / km) +34m4:26 / km ahr:166 max:174
Milton Keynes Urban Race (UKUL). MVet, 1st.
Second race of the day after about an hour's sleep after leg 4 of the Harvester. Picked Lesley up at MK station.
Decided that if I was going to get beaten for running speed, I should at least try to have a perfect technical run and be smooth through the controls. That plan worked well, with no mistakes through some quite technical sections. Towards the end, on a fairly long easy leg I decided to push harder, which was the trigger for my one mistake where I missed a turn off a road so ended up taking a different longer route. Annoyed with myself for that, as it probably cost me 30 seconds. As it turned out, I won by a minute, so no harm done.