Running warm up/down 10:00 [2]
Warm up before race, jogging along grassy bit by road into car park, checked out the spectator control on the tunnel and had a bit of a stretch
Orienteering race 54:30 [4] ** 5.9 km (9:14 / km) +190m 7:57 / km
spiked:15/20c shoes: VJ Falcons
BEOC Middle, Fonthill. One big stupid mistake and a few bobbles but otherwise quite good, could have been near to the 45min target otherwise. Wasn't too enamoured with the map though, quite a bit of detail didn't seem to be on the map and the undergrowth screens were variable.
More analysis to be found with the splits (once they're up)
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Just been looking at the map from today again and amazed at how much detail is hidden under circles, lines AND numbers. In some places it gets ridiculous. Just spotted the thicket I tried to use as a distance marker on the way to #19 hidden under the number... It doesn't take much effort to break circles, check lines and move the numbers so why don't they do it?!?
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Have noticed I've been getting really quite sloppy technically recently, not looking at the map and compass enough (although today's terrain didn't help map-wise). I don't know whether it's a case of southern-england mode kicking in too much, or that I'm just running for too long without concentrating/thinking, but I need to get into better habits again. Reckon a lot of it is to do with not planning ahead enough, so I might try out a slightly different method tomorrow...