Orienteering race 1:38:16 [4] 9.74 km (10:05 / km)
shoes: VJ Integrators
NI Colour Series 4, Portstewart - Brown Course
Very happy to be running on a new sand dune map, even if it took me a couple of controls to get into the 1:5000 scale... Started off cleanly enough although I was a bit hesitant into 7, I took the direct(ish) route and bounced off 9 and 16 on my way instead of legging it round the outside cos I reckoned it wold be very easy to overshoot. Then dropped down the wrong side of the big dune to 8 and ended up on the hill about 100m away looking at an unmapped gate, wondering what i'd done wrong - look to the left and I could see the control. Hesitant into 9 as it was back into the complex stuff, 10 I decided on the path route as it gave a nice fence corner to attack off, was hesitant into 11 and was saved by Steph P relocating off it. 12-18 were grand and then my legs died on the way to 19 plus I was too close to the green and a bit short. 20-26 were good then in my knackered state at 26 I looked up and there was a control I could see on my line to 27 so I just ran to it - wasnt mine and now wasn't sure where I was, I wandered around for a bit then Jack came past so I followed him into it. I should have nipped back into the dunes to 28 cause my legs werent happy to head up the soft sand of the beach to 28 and then on the finished!
13th overall 2nd Female but 16 mins down on Aine...