Orienteering - Urban race (The Meadows+Trent Embankm) 46:28 [5] 10.81 km (4:18 / km) +48m 4:12 / km
shoes: Brooks Ravenna 9
Easy win due to low standard of competition; undeserved. But cements my victory in EMUL, which is obviously the only competition anyone cares about.
Lost 20s on #3 due to becoming disoriented following curved amphitheatre steps into control and therefore not paying enough attention when leaving. Expected a lake on my left so was surprised to see it on my right, but made relocating easy. Should've preplanned as had long leg along grass beforehand - bad.
Pretty good until #15 where lost a totally unnecessary minute, ran too far along a road for no reason, didn't notice for 30s. I think must've been faffing with map folding, it was 1:4k so there was a lot of that.really annoying as not on a hard leg, and it was an obvious junction.need to visualise better so know what to expect when map faffing.
Then some really good o.suboptimal route on the long leg but still won the leg, want to see RG for that.
Back of quads (dont know what they are) aching as if I'd done intervals yesterday; not had that feeling since my last track session a year ago. The 1803 parkrun making itself known I think. So not feeling particularly fast today, and winning few splits near the beginning, but as with the fell race yesterday near the end of the race once other people are tired too, I do much better.
Good practice for the Manchester races next week :)