orienteering 4:49:02 [3] 18.0 km (16:03 / km)
(injured)
OMM Day 2
I would definitely not have run today had it not been a pairs event. As it was my knee recovered quite well but my foot got worse and rough terrain was not much fun. In addition the orienteering gods which perhaps favoured us on Day 1 did not today: on route to 1 a farmer stopped us crossing a bridge despite it being a viable footpath on the map.....we got snagged by gorse...... we got separated near a dodgy control site, we got cold in the strong wind after a glacial steep ascent (I had to put of Down jacket) etc., etc
So we were 57/ 240 with 270 points for an overall result of 34/ 240
We had two options at the start, the longer one round the valley heads (more points but longer) or straight to the main eastern ridge. Had I been ok the former would probably have been a 'no brainer', I favoured this thinking that we could skip controls and bail out along the path if necessary. Dave argued we needed to stay quite close to the finish. His logic was right and won the day. Hampered by our adventures we missed 2 controls (potentially 50 points). So it was our execution rather than the choice which was our issue.
However there is quite a lot of luck in these things as you just don't know what the terrain is like and from conversation the longer distance was much easier terrain and might have been better than our chosen toil.