Running warm up/down 11:02 [2] 1.53 km (7:13 / km)
Up. Decided to abandon the thermal by the start (it's still there oops) and ran with my jacket in a bum bag. Lovely weather really :)
Orienteering race 1:23:01 [4] 15.52 km (5:21 / km)
Many things went wrong today. Many. Missed several controls by 20ish seconds just by not seeing the feature when I had my head up and not being quite accurate enough with the compass. Missed #1, #5 and #15 for similar reasons but lost nearer a minute. Wasn't running fast enough but I expected that. And now to the stuff I couldn't control. My dibber is broken (probably). At about 10 controls the box didn't beep for a good 5 seconds while holding it in, it was like I was waking them up but clearly wasn't. And then at 3 of the controls it took much longer and having held it in for maybe 10 seconds at 2 of them them and probably as much as 20 at the third I had to pin punch. Except the third didn't have a pin punch so I was stood at the flag for a good minute, unsure of what to do before deciding the only thing I could do was carry on. Really weird and very frustrating but thankfully I was reinstated but still I reckon 2 minutes lost over all the slow punches. Also broke my £60 compass that I've had less than a year, great. Anyway again another disappointing result that I'll analyze the technical stuff more later. The last sprint selection in Whitby is looking like an even more important race for me now aha, who'd have thought it...