Running warm up/down 15:00 [3] 2.5 km (6:00 / km)
shoes: VJ Bold (Blue)
Out on the model map twice & jog to start.
Orienteering race 58:42 [5] 6.3 km (9:19 / km) +210m 7:59 / km
15c shoes: VJ Bold (Blue)
EYOC Long - Faget, W18, 6.3km, 26th
Not very confident in long distance so went out with no expectations. Was very careful at the start of the course, tried to stick with simple routes as I didn't want to make any mistakes early on. Went around on the track to #2 as I hadn't really settled into the map yet. Pushed a but to #3 to get away from another W18. Fine for the next few up to the water station, probably starting to run a bit faster but still being very careful and not taking any dodgy routes. Had no idea what to do for #7, the long leg, so just went straight and picked off features. Fine until the end of the leg going through rough open where I couldn't find a little track through it and there were also many other newly formed tracks. Fought through the bushes a bit and knew where I was after hitting the stream. Think I must have been higher than I thought I was at this point and I'm no really sure where I went but after fighting through some more green I hit the re-entrent that the control was on. Found a control, wrong code, and started to panic a bit but had a feeling I was too high and found the control about 50m down the re-entrent. Probably lost around 2-3 mins towards the end of the leg but took the next control easy again to settle back in. Knew at this point there was only a few relatively short legs left and was confident at this point so pushed my running a bit more. Like everyone else got a bit confused going to the last control but thankfully didn't seem to lose as much time as others. Aside from the end of the long leg I was very clean, so very surprised with my result and race given how my other long distance races went this year.