Orienteering race (Navdash Guildford Grammar) 18:53 [5] ***
spiked:20/25c shoes: Asics 3000
First sprint race for the year. Good to have all 4 of the '93 Schools' Team there. Ran straight past the first one, not seeing it on the play equipment (was lookng at ground level), missed a turn to the second one, then settled into it a bit. Amazing what looks like the middle of the circle when you're running out of oxygen - gould have sworn the circle at 8 was centred on the pole, bt it's nowhere near it - my bad again. Stopped early at 11, where there was a man-made feature before the mapped one (or before the one that the control was on, anyway. Really happy with the next section through the buildings until 19 where I ran straight past the correct staircase, looked at it, somehow didn't see the control, then stood around looking confused for somewhere like 20 seconds. Pretty critical in a sprint race, and Craig got me by 6 sec at the end, so will be interesting to see the splits. Irrelevant for the win as Lucky Luke totally smashed us all, but will be very tightly fought once he leaves.
Would be keen to run the rest of the series with a HR monitor to try to figure out what pace it is that I can hold and still run cleanly, as I went over it at times today (also would be interested to see if the map reading picks up with a bit of regular nav.)
run warm up/down 15:00 [2] 2.5 km (6:00 / km)
shoes: Asics 3000
Very generous guesstimate at my warm-up and cooldown.