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Sunday Jul 24, 2016 #
Orienteering 1:27:38 [4] 9.4 km (9:19 / km) +275m 8:08 / km
shoes: 2013 VJ Supra
Croeso Day 1 - Kenfig Burrows
The main reason for a trip to Wales was a chance to get to run on this area. It's good in places, and a bit grotty in others. The latter parts weren't helped by it being a miserable day, with rain of some sort throughout the run.
Orienteering-wise things seemed to take a lot longer to appear than I thought they should have. Probably a combination of it (a) being rougher than I was expecting and (b) my running speed being generally rubbish. So I was slowing early a fair amount - sometimes this led to a decent sized mistake (controls 3 and 14), other times several hesitations (controls 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 16). Control 14 was compounded by being on the wrong side of the ridge and thinking the control was in a re-entrant facing me; control 16 would have gone around on the path if I was concerned about speed. Only other point of note was missing more than one path junction on the way to control 5 - with the vegetation up they were pretty well hidden in places (+90").
Seems like others faired relatively worse than I did today and surprised to be less than 50% down on the winner's time.
GPS distance - 12.1km
The main reason for a trip to Wales was a chance to get to run on this area. It's good in places, and a bit grotty in others. The latter parts weren't helped by it being a miserable day, with rain of some sort throughout the run.
Orienteering-wise things seemed to take a lot longer to appear than I thought they should have. Probably a combination of it (a) being rougher than I was expecting and (b) my running speed being generally rubbish. So I was slowing early a fair amount - sometimes this led to a decent sized mistake (controls 3 and 14), other times several hesitations (controls 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 16). Control 14 was compounded by being on the wrong side of the ridge and thinking the control was in a re-entrant facing me; control 16 would have gone around on the path if I was concerned about speed. Only other point of note was missing more than one path junction on the way to control 5 - with the vegetation up they were pretty well hidden in places (+90").
Seems like others faired relatively worse than I did today and surprised to be less than 50% down on the winner's time.
GPS distance - 12.1km