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Sunday Oct 13, 2013 #
Event: Welsh Championships
Orienteering 1:38:00 [4] ***** 9.7 km (10:06 / km) +290m 8:47 / km
shoes: 2013 VJ Supra
Newborough Forest - Welsh Champs - Black course
This was cracking. Navigation was pretty crap on more than one occasion, but from #22 onwards was some of the best (and most technical) forest I've run through for a while. Crested the hill out of #22 to see open forest with just pine needles on the floor, and lots of bumpy dune ridge spread out in front of me, and was mesmerised in a way - giant grin on my face, and the last 30 mins of running didn't feel hard with that terrain around. Who cares if there's a faster route when you get to run through that?
Really really hope there's not a 12 year gap until the next event on here. Most enjoyable race of any in recent years - and maybe next time, I'll get the technical bits right too!
This was cracking. Navigation was pretty crap on more than one occasion, but from #22 onwards was some of the best (and most technical) forest I've run through for a while. Crested the hill out of #22 to see open forest with just pine needles on the floor, and lots of bumpy dune ridge spread out in front of me, and was mesmerised in a way - giant grin on my face, and the last 30 mins of running didn't feel hard with that terrain around. Who cares if there's a faster route when you get to run through that?
Really really hope there's not a 12 year gap until the next event on here. Most enjoyable race of any in recent years - and maybe next time, I'll get the technical bits right too!
Warm up/down 5:00 [2]
shoes: 2013 VJ Supra
To the start - closer than I was expecting, so a bit of time for chatting too.
Saturday Oct 12, 2013 #
Event: JOK Chasing Sprint
Note
On Newborough all day for the Chasing Sprint. Everything seemed to work ok, technology behaved itself for the most part, which was a relief.
One little jog up to the prologue start to post a set of competitor start lists, otherwise manning download and making sure all was running to plan.
As great an area as Newborough is, I think we'll try to make next year's event easier for everyone by making it a little more accessible.
One little jog up to the prologue start to post a set of competitor start lists, otherwise manning download and making sure all was running to plan.
As great an area as Newborough is, I think we'll try to make next year's event easier for everyone by making it a little more accessible.