Training Log Archive: Old Daniel

Good standard warm up

MLS Event at Hawley, not quire the usual area going further into a limb which was quite straight forward , so not quite so tricky as sometimes but still very enjoyable. The pace was not quite as good as recently I seemed to be having to work quite a bit harder, but ok with the nav. I missed a bush at 19 only saw one in circle when there were 2 (90 secs?) and then could not make head nor tail of the map at the last control 21 losing approx.2- 3 mins. So a disappointing finish . Also a bit disappointing at download where I discovered that I had missed no 9. Initially thought it was a reoccurrence of Emit/ brick that I seemed to have run into last autumn -new battery required? but my criticism of the system was incorrect -sorry EMIT system I apologise.
What actually happened that as well as the usual camouflaged squaddies jumping out of bushes and the somewhat disconcerting large ordinance that was being let off closer than you might like, the army cross country champs was also taking place and my route to 9 was part of the course and I was keeping pace with part of the ladies race which I did passed the control by 25m and onwards to 10. Yet another new way to mess up orienteering !
Ankle was ok