Orienteering (JK Long Bigland) 1:03:23 [3] 15.4 km (4:07 / km)
Planned to run hard all the first part and see what happened at the end. Didn't do the model map. Alright to 1, 2. Didn't 'get on with it' to 3 but did for most of the rest of the course. Was unsure to 5. Passed my 2 minute guy on the way to 9, 13 and 26... Messed up 9, of course, being stupid. Ate jelly babies. Too much of a push over to 14. Too low to 15, grr. Lost momentum to 17. Lost to Jonny C by a second on the main leg of the course but we were still a few seconds ahead of third. Heard I was 2 1/2 minutes down at the run through and Rachel said I was doing well. Carefull to 21. Went very high to 23 as I thought going round had too much screw-up potential. But I lost contact, (almost knowingly) mixed up the crossing points, and dropped in early before the big obvious spur, and then was slow to look around at my map and admit it and rectify. I should have followed that nice wall. Just spotted a couple of people leaving it ahead as I finally approached it so pushed on in the next leg to catch them up, also found Spongy to my left and followed him in and onto the back of Simonin and the other guy. Just followed from there really. Prob should have dropped down to 26. Bit scrappy there and 27. Tired on 28. More following to 29. Mid way through Spongy let out a decent fart and some seconds later, a bit before 21, he slowed, put his hands on his trousers, and looked behind him. I didn't stay for for the squat. Simonin nailed the control. I should have nailed 30 across the marsh to get ahead but didn't put things together fast enough at the end. Hard work going slowly up the hill to finish. A good and not so good race.