Orienteering46:33 3.77 km (12:20 / km) +22m12:00 / km ahr:110 max:127 shoes: Inov8 210 July 2018
A bit of practice before tonight. Tricky, vague, physical terrain. Not so good with the compass or distance judgement, need to do better this evening....
7 PM
Running warm up/down 15:53 2.46 km (6:28 / km) +5m6:24 / km ahr:117 max:159 shoes: VJ Falcon May 2018
To the start.
Orienteering race 1:27:00 10.47 km (8:18 / km) +263m7:23 / km ahr:137 max:161 shoes: VJ Falcon May 2018
British Night Champs, Muir of Dinnet
M50L, 7th place.
Winner BenS 72mins.
As challenging as promised and expected...and didn’t handle it as well as hoped :(
Missed at all the first three (2mins-1min-2mins), then okay for a bit with extreme care approaching scary #6. Okay macro choice on the long leg (although Roger on M45 went right and was fastest), but missed a path in the middle and had to cut through terrain....then kept changing mind on how to cover last 700m or so and ended up with a messy wiggly slow indecisive solution that probably cost 2-3mins.
All relatively insignificant compared to the disastrous 7+ mins lost at #11, was tiring and mis-identified huge boulder at approx right distance, then persuaded myself I had got confused on distance and was way short...went a long way further and took a long time to come back to the control.
Frustrating run but a proper challenge, enjoyed it despite disappointing performance.
Running warm up/down 5:44 0.78 km (7:19 / km) ahr:127 max:146 shoes: VJ Falcon May 2018
Back from the finish until caught up MC...and then my torch ran out of juice anyway...