Orienteering race 1:14:05 [4] 8.27 km (8:58 / km) +371m 7:19 / km
shoes: VJ Bolds - Purple
Nationals Long - Goat City
Surprised myself and actually really enjoyed this race, despite not doing any long training in the last few months. Started hesitantly through the first 3 controls, struggling to understand the rock detail and run over all the uneven ground. Then started to build into it from 4 through to 14.
Took a bad route choice to 5 (going left past 11) and lost 2mins to Lizzie...but still ended up having the 2nd fastest split for this control, so perhaps she just had superhuman speed or something ;)
Lost 1min to 11...didn't realise it was a mistake at the time, but looking at the map now, I definitely should have gone straighter.
Hit the wall going to 14 through all the soft marsh, but spotted Lizzie in the distance and figured I may have maintained the 6min gap, so managed to push a bit harder through the final controls to the finish.
Ended up in 2nd place, 53 seconds behind Lizzie, so well happy with that :)