Run ((orienteering)) 45:00 [3] *** 5.5 km (8:11 / km) +200m 6:55 / km
spiked:17/19c
Body still letting me down - at a level where I can run but not particularly comfortably. Realised fairly early on that I was going to be limited, at best, up hills but decided I'd try and press on and see if things loosened up on the mostly downhill/flat terrain in the later part of the first loop. This turned out not to be the case and I finished up at the end of the first loop. That was still enough to do most of the fun bits, particularly the butterfly loops in the granite at the far end. Made a couple of mistakes here (probably a minute at 7, 30 seconds and 11), largely through not working out properly how much was mapped on the 1:2000 enlargement.
Obviously disappointing not to feel up to doing the full distance, but at least for a first outing the terrain this gives me something that I might be able to build on. Next week will be a further test (unusual to have so many opportunities so early in the season).
It was a good event as always, and some pretty fierce competition at the front end.