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Saturday Jan 20, 2018 #
Event: Western Night League
11 AM
Orienteering (SWOC Draethen) 1:07:53 [3] 7.19 km (9:26 / km) +230m 8:08 / km
slept:4.0 (sick) shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Blk/Gn1
Possibly not the best venue to come to if not particularly keen on orienteering but for just £4 and close to home couldn’t go wrong. Still lost interest before control 2 and wasn’t putting any effort in. Things got worse when attacked by a dog so then put maximum distance between me and it by running down to Machen and doing my own thing from there.
Got to run a new footpath, which was nice, and to be honest terrain wasn’t as awful as I remembered. New map seems to be ok and most things were where I expected them to be.
Think there’ll be a big cut in amount of forest orienteering races I do this year - prefer the open and felll. Will cancel entry for second day of triple Gloucester and stick to just doing the Saturday.
Got to run a new footpath, which was nice, and to be honest terrain wasn’t as awful as I remembered. New map seems to be ok and most things were where I expected them to be.
Think there’ll be a big cut in amount of forest orienteering races I do this year - prefer the open and felll. Will cancel entry for second day of triple Gloucester and stick to just doing the Saturday.
2 PM
Running - off road 1:27:17 [3] 8.67 km (10:04 / km) +380m 8:15 / km
shoes: inov8 Mudclaw300 Blk/Gn1
Craig yr Allt race sweeper/course clearing with Tom Hill. Course pretty slow and mud bad. No dogs attacked me when I was armed with hammer and knife.
Very nice touch by Gary to let the mashals have first choice of prizes/rewards ahead of the winners. After all the toxicity from orienteering over last few months demonstrates where fell running has got it right!
Nice to see Gill again and have it reinforced that feeling like I have been is quite understandable as no longer sure I’ve any sense of perspective. What’s not so nice is hearing I’m not the only one like this :-(
Very nice touch by Gary to let the mashals have first choice of prizes/rewards ahead of the winners. After all the toxicity from orienteering over last few months demonstrates where fell running has got it right!
Nice to see Gill again and have it reinforced that feeling like I have been is quite understandable as no longer sure I’ve any sense of perspective. What’s not so nice is hearing I’m not the only one like this :-(