Linear orienteering race 2:42:48 [5] 17.9 km (9:06 / km)
shoes: inov8 Mudclaw 300
JK 2013 Day 3, Cold Ash - Men's Elite long distance course
Even worse than Saturday. Sloppy navigation early on (I was finding it difficult to pick up on the thinly market water courses on the 1:15,000 scale map) and then around 1/3 in I lost my thumpass. Not the end of the world although it almost felt like it at the time. Spent a few minutes looking for it, considered giving up but then decided to carry on.
To be fair I probably would have done as well without a compass from the outset, given the area. The mistakes I made after losing the thumpass, of which there were many, were generally similar in nature to those made before, stemming from lack of care and attention.
Despite an overall poor run, it was encouraging to see the benefits of endurance / distance training, in that while I was flagging near the end, I was nowhere near as knackered as others appeared.