Running warm up/down 10:00 [1]
Chill warm-up and warm-down with Helen. Left hip flexor is still sore- what did I do to it? Hopefully I can do the abs exercises at circuits tomorrow, but that did aggravate it last week...
Orienteering 1:09:55 [4] *** 9.5 km (7:22 / km) +120m 6:55 / km
21c shoes: Walshes
Concorde Chase, Burghfield Common
Flat, lots of trails, and not too terrible runnability in the woods, although I felt like I encountered dead trees underfoot, which was kinda tricky to run quickly through!
I was focusing on trying to mentally simplify a bit and not consult the map quite as much, it worked to a degree I think- may not have made a huge leap in map-memory, but at least didn't slow down to check the map unnecessarily as much as usual. Generally, I'm not too sure about all of my route choices, I think I have avoided the woods a bit too much...
Some controls that were iffy:
6- bearing a bit too far south
7- paused to early to consider things, just hesitation really
8- should have gone through the woods, paths were much longer
10- good!
15- boo. wasn't careful enough with my bearing apparently, and ended up on a different path than was supposed to be my catching feature, and ran along it in what would have been a sensible direction on the right path, but wasn't on this one.... lost 4 minutes
16- straight quicker than paths?
17- should have opted for the path on this one- ended up going through some deep time-sucking ditches
One thing I'm very happy with is not being distracted by others. Lots of people were around, but they never mattered.