Run ((orienteering)) 36:00 [3] *** 4.3 km (8:22 / km)
spiked:7/8c
O training at Westerfolds - didn't want to go too far from home. This was regular far-end-of-long-run territory for me when living in Heidelberg (and of course home to many OV meetings) but I don't think I've ever orienteered on the map here (which has a permanent course).
I wasn't actually expecting it to be that pleasant on a damp day - lots of mud and long damp grass was what I was anticipating. The mud was there in places but the long grass wasn't, and it was quite nice running through the area (which I think has more tree cover than the map suggested). Back was fairly marginal so didn't push up the hills; just a little high coming across the slope on one control.
Westerfolds' permanent course control numbering follows no obvious logic, so doing the controls in numerical order, as I was, means going back and forth across the map a lot. That suited me fine; I should be able to get at least two more runs out of this. Heading out this way also gave me an excuse to drop into one of my old haunts, the (very good) Heidelberg supermarket, on the way home, even if a football scarf didn't work so well as an improvised face covering (too hard to keep it above the nose).
And I even saw a ranger take someone to task for having a dog off-leash in an on-leash zone.