Orienteering race (Slieve Garron) 1:17:34 [4] **** 9.15 km (8:29 / km) +345m 7:08 / km
spiked:25/29c
NI Colour 6 Slieve Garron
Brown 6.8km 330m
got off to a good start in the forest, very runnable and well mapped.
was a bit slow once reaching the top of the first climb to 7 deciding whether to contour round to the north or south - took the south, and lost too much time getting to control circle. lost 3mins
flowed through the next few controls over very runnable terrain.
didn't learn from previous error returning to 13 from the south losing another minute but was getting a bit frustrated at the repetitiveness of back & forth across the same area of hill. this frustration increased when I switched off due to being able to see control 14 & lost 90 sec running 180degrees away from 15 and wasn't overly motivated to race back across to 16 but kept going due to being able to see others also running back & forth.
enjoyed running over another bit of the hill for the next few controls but it was tough getting back to the forest across the wet ground & lost up to 4 mins running down the forest ride to 24 instead of taking an easy right up the hill. then wasted 3 mins to 27 contouring & staying to high & then relocating from cp1. could've moved back through the forest faster but wanted to execute my route plan properly.
should've been closer to the hour. enjoyed the hill & forest running