Running warm up/down 16:54 [2] 2.18 km (7:45 / km) +65m 6:45 / km
shoes: Salomon S Lab Speed 2
Rare for a long distance but cool down > warm up. Partly because I had to line up for toilet for a long time and partly because I wasted 5 minutes putting my magnifier.
Forest Orienteering race 1:34:09 [4] **** 17.0 km (5:32 / km) +498m 4:50 / km
shoes: Salomon S Lab Speed 2
Easter Day 2: Long @ Hill Park Dale. 3rd place (+1:01 on Simon, +0:43 on Henry).
Tough day at the office. Technically felt on top of it for about 90% of it and physically legs felt good but breathing a little laboured - found it hard to get to that top gear.
A fun start to the day when I realised it was 1: 10 000 and I didn't actually need my magnifier. Turns out that my magnifier had also loosened, which meant it kept swinging out when I didn't want it (pushed it back about 50 times over the race..). Got so frustrated by it by control 6 that I tried to break it but my weak hands only managed to bend it so that it stayed out of the way long enough.
Technical reflection:
-Slow route to 6 trying to go too straight when I could have conserved height just off the line.
-Don't assume old people know where the control is (9) - they dont.
-if you are going to attempt str8 is gr8 (12) then don't get start thinking about the netflix you watched last night halfway to the control.
-when you catch someone you may actually be running faster than them so don't slow down and run with them (13, 14, 24)
-when the control isn't where you think it should be its not in the wrong spot , you're in the wrong spot (22)
-at the end of the course its probably even more important to concentrate than at the start (23, 27).