Orienteering race (O festival stage 1) 33:20 [3] **** 3.0 km (11:07 / km) +195m 8:23 / km
spiked:12/12c
First stage of the o festival , in St Francois but on the other side of the road . Not as technical as yesterday yet still very challenging ! Taking a path option when you could was definatley the best choice . Lost so many minutes today , at 1 I lost about 3 minutes because of taking a quite discrete path which I thought was the main one and taking myself into the wrong depressions , Patrick caught me up on 1 but I quickly left him and beat him by 3 minutes . After that costly mistake I really got going and was hitting all my controls well didn't make any more errors till 8 and 9 - at 8 I simply ran past it and to far up the re-entrant until realising lost 1-2 mins and then again at 9 by worst mistake as I caught a French boy and was racing hard against him and let my map reading slip and I made a parallel error as I later realised looking at the map . Result wise it looks okay as I came 15 out of 140 winner got 27 32 or so I reckon I could of done it in 25/26 if I didn't make stupid mistakes ... But I guess I'm still adapting to the terrain, much more runnable today though . This is all good experience :)