urban/sprint 44:08 [4] 6.0 km (7:21 / km)
Claro MapRunF orienteering, The Stray and Hookstone. Oh dear. I'm not sure I had the phone set up right, and it's also a 5 year old phone so maybe that wasn't helping. I got to the start, didn't beep. I stood around for 30 seconds, still didn't beep. I took the phone off my arm (Evie had lent me a fancy arm pouch) and then it beeped, so then I had to put the phone back on my arm with the clock ticking. Got to number 1, didn't beep. Took the phone off again and the screen had gone off, as soon as I turned it back on it beeped. From then on I had the phone in my hand. The next few beeped without me doing anything, but every so often I had to turn the screen off and on before it would register. Some registered straight away, some took 10 seconds which was frustrating but ok I suppose. That was fine until I got to the finish, didn't beep. Turned the screen off and on again, didn't beep. Waved it in the air, turned if off and on a second time and this time it beeped. Must have been there the best part of a minute.
I was also a bit crap, running was a struggle all day. Out on the Stray I was barely managing 10 minute miles. And I made a huge mistake when I missed a turning and ended up taking two controls in the opposite order to what I had intended. Must have lost a minute or more.
So the whole maprun thing was a bit frustrating, but it could be my phone and it could be just me. Maybe it's like this for everybody. I got all the controls with a minute to spare and finished well down the results. I was about 14 minutes behind Quentin and also behind lots of other less speedy people.
An interesting experiment, but nah.
running 23:00 [2] 2.1 mi (10:57 / mi)
Painful jog back to Harlow Moor Road. I had taken a second map of Valley Gardens that I thought I might also do, but it was just too busy there and I could barely run anyway.
After I got home I just wiped out and went to sleep for a couple of hours. I'm not doing very well at the moment.