Orienteering 1:16:17 [4] 7.7 km (9:54 / km) +100m 9:18 / km
shoes: inov8 Mudclaw 272
British Night Champs, Tankersley
really good course, not a bad run, missed a few paths, lots of little hesitations - hard to read the map on the run, and the control descriptions while stationary - some short hesitations where I was close, but couldn't see the flag and had to check map, and two misses, notably over the road
7 - ran fast to the fence, attacked off the corner, took a bearing, missed, very vague contours in this area, came out at the path below and looped around to find it, I may have passed quite close first time (3mins)
9 - ran along the edge of the slope and would've hit it bang on, but I got pulled left by the direction others were taking, overshot and relocated on another control (I'd sensed that one was too far), flag was at the back of a hollybush, tricky one (90secs)
14 - couldn't make up my mind which way to go, in the end I stumbled down the slope, fell, rolled and fought my way to the road and went left, must've lost a minute in that period
9th of 20, 16mins behind Dave Peel (target 10th)