Run - Orienteering race 35:38 [5] 5.47 km (6:31 / km) +238m 5:21 / km
shoes: VJ Falcons 14
IOC Relays, The Towers, Open Premier.
Second leg in the "we once were young" Cork O team with Dooby out first and Boyzone bringing it home. Was expecting a lot of track running and as I don't have the speed of the others I thought that it would be best to hide me in the middle.
The forest turned out to be much better than I was expecting, especially after the the long track leg to #2. Legs were dead today and struggled to get up to any sort of speed, but just about managed to keep it going. Lost time in two places: 30 seconds on a control that was clearly in the wrong place (on the wall on the edge of a field rather than in it - ran past it without checking it) and when I tried to find a white strip in green, it didn't exist and it took me a minute to extract myself from the branches and brambles.
As well as the above I also appear to have had the longest gaffle, which is no bad thing on the second leg. Although it was great to have proper gaffling for once, there was probably a bit too much difference between the various options.
After a great start from a fresh Dooby (rested yesterday) and a steady last leg from Shane (who lost more time due to another misplaced control) we easily held off the main competition of DUO, a few others teams also ran but were never going to challenge the mighty Cork O ;-)