Orienteering race 33:06 [4] 5.93 km (5:35 / km) +135m 5:01 / km
BOC Middle Champs Stock Hill.
Redemption time after yesterday's sprint performance. Off hard but steady but still couldn't get my head around a 7500 scale over-generalised map. Really struggled with so much missing from the map - felt like a 1980s style.
Anyway, I ran hard and tried to be clean - failed, but mistakes to a minimum until number 12 where I went into the forest too early and undershot. That threw away the chance of a gold but kept pushing in case I could get any other colour. On crossing the wall into the open I read my descriptions and badly placed my foot. The tendons cracked loudly and it was really obvious what had happened. Shouts of pain but the adrenaline kept me pushing/hobbling through the last few controls to try secure a decent result.
Pleased to see that I hadn't lost places on this section despite injury and happily into 2nd place! With only one M50 in front of us today (Bill Edwards - 31.) Chuffed. Sore. Andy S took the win - not clean but solid and travelling faster than me, as expected.